Proclaim: Endorse

CONTRACTION

An utterance which refers to external sources as warrantable, undeniable, and/or reliable. It expresses the writer’s alignment with and endorsement of an attributed proposition. As such, the dialogic space is somewhat narrowed.

Essentially, in Endorse option, a writer use an external source and align with it to support their views. Typically, this is achieved by the use of verbal processes and their nominalized equivalents. Compared to Attribute, Endorse encodes writers more approval of the content.

  • Bolded red text is used to mark a supplementary material reference tags like sources or citation. See this section for more information about how material references interact with endorse.
  • As usual, bolded black text marks the category tag (in this case ENDORSE).
  • Pay special attention to brackets, as they mark the span of tags.
  • [ Evidence ]SOURCE [ showed ]ENDORSE-PRIMARY that_ . . . there was “a large number of small competitors, the absence of significant price wars, . . .”
  • [ An interview by the Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) ]SOURCE concerning national identity [ revealed ]ENDORSE-PRIMARY that_ 50% of those interviewed feel that they think of themselves more as citizens of the world than any particular country, up from 45% in 1993.
  • First, [ the study ]SOURCE [ found ]ENDORSE-PRIMARY that advisee perceptions of their advisor ‘s credibility was positively related to advisee perceptions of advisor mentoring and an advisor ‘s use of solution-oriented conflict management strategies.
  • More specifically, [ five studies ]SOURCE [ demonstrate ]ENDORSE-PRIMARY that investment dependence – investment by foreign firms in a society’s domestic economy increases economic inequality.
  • For instance, young learners [ were found ]ENDORSE-PRIMARY to perform differently on both text comprehension (e.g., Langer, 1985) and production (e.g. Hidi & Hidyard, 1983).
  • [ As [ discussants ]SOURCE correctly pointed out ]ENDORSE-PRIMARY, Bernardino of Siena, Martin Le Franc, and the anonymous author of the Errores Gazariorum all have an even more aggressive campaign against witches than did the authors of our previous readings.
  • [ It has been shown ]ENDORSE-PRIMARY that outriggers placed near the bottom of the structure are most effective for reducing base moments.

Furthermore, Endorse may involve a pattern ADV + VERB where adverbs adds extra meaning to Endorse the external sources:

  • … convincingly argued …
  • … compellingly propounded …

  • … successfully explained …

  • [ As [Hastie (an Englishman of their own political persuasion) ]SOURCE so compellingly argued ]ENDORSE-PRIMARY, ‘In any society racism will increase in direct proportion to the number of people who are given well-paid and prestigious positions to discover it.’

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