In conflict articles,the authors'stance against other authors or research articles is expressed.Analysis of 30 linguistic conflict articles from CSSCI and core journals reveals the four(im)politeness strategies of off-record criticism,unmitigated on-record criticism,mitigated on-record criticism and recognition/praise in a decreasing order.Recurrent patterns of appraisal resources include"appreciation+contraction+level/up-scale graduation"and"appreciation+expansion+up-scale graduation"within off-record criticism,"appreciation+expansion+level/down/up-scale graduation"and"appreciation+contraction+down-scale graduation"within mitigated on-record criticism,and"appreciation+monogloss+up-scale graduation"within recognition/praise,which help mitigate face threat to the appraisees.However,frequent occurrence of"appreciation+contraction/monogloss+level-scale graduation"and"judgment"within unmitigated on-record criticism reveals the appraisers'promotion of their claims at the cost of politeness.The present study enriches the appraisal and(im)politeness theories by integrating them and has some implication for effective dialog in academic discourse.
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