ABSTRACT
Code glosses include items such as i.e., in other words, for example and namely. The explanatory function of code glosses suggests that they may be particularly useful resources for writers in interdisciplinary journals. A counter hypothesis is that the code glosses would be frequent in the social science journals than the natural science ones. The qualitative study of in other words begins with 20 random lines from each of the BEE4 journals, studied in expanded context. The qualitative study of the phrase has suggested that although the meaning of the phrase is not different in the four journals, its typical use is slightly different in each. The four journals are: Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment (AEE), Global Environmental Change, Plant Science (PS), and Resource and Energy Economics. In PS the phrase addresses a discipline-internal audience and underlines what is important. In AEE it is used to address audiences of researchers.
