Disciplinary differences in the use of evaluative that: Expression of stance via that-clauses in business and medicine

A growing body of literature recognizes the importance of interaction between writers and readers in disciplinary academic texts. An effective way for authors to evaluate their or others' findings, methods, and theories is to package propositional information in evaluative ‘that’ patterns (e.g. ‘the author believes that … ‘). These provide various options for evaluating propositions and thematizing the evaluation by signaling either epistemic or...