smgmailcom Abstract Languages and the cultures they represent dier in the extent to which writers feel responsible for making themselves clear and to which readers are expected to puzzle through what has been written To write explicit statements may ID: 86264
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August 2011; 37(3)European Science EditingScienti c discourse and contrastive linguistics: explicitness and the concept of reader/writer responsible languagesFrançoise Salager-MeyerGraduate School of Medicine, Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela; francoise.sm@gmail.comAbstract Languages and the cultures they represent di er in the extent to which writers feel responsible for making themselves clear and to which readers are expected to puzzle through what has been written. To write explicit statements may be regarded as polite in one culture and patronising in another. is is the third article in a trilogy on scienti c rhetoric; previous articles have discussed creating a research space and hedges.Keywords Metadiscourse, explicitness, Asian languages/