'What is particularly significant for the purpose of this paper is that...': a Cross-disciplinary Study of Lexical and Phraseological TYools for Claiming Significance in Academic Discourse

The paper sets out to compare writing practices from two academic disciplines - history and economics - in order to find out the most frequent lexical and phraseological tools employed by the respective discourse communities in order to claim significance. Corpus data show that historians and economists make a different use of linguistic resources at their disposal in order to stress the centrality of their research with regard to the wider disciplinary debate.