scholarly journals Self-representation by First-person and Impersonal Pronouns in English Research Articles of Four Disciplines

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yang Linxiu
Keyword(s):  
Research Articles ◽  
First Person ◽  
Impersonal Pronouns

Are we visible? An interdisciplinary data-based study of self-mention in research articles

2016 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohsen Khedri
Keyword(s):  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Environmental Engineering ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
First Person ◽  
Person Plural ◽  
Rhetorical Strategy ◽  
Original Contribution ◽  
Subjective Strategies ◽  
First Person Plural

AbstractResearch articles have often materialized through the use of impersonal objective strategies viz. abstract rhetors, passive constructions, and nominalizations. However, intrusive or subjective strategies, such as self-mentions, appear to integrate impersonal structures. As a rhetorical strategy to explicitly portray authorial selves, self-mentions help writers to project themselves into the discourse by marketing themselves and demarcating their original contribution to the field. Here, an interdisciplinary approach was adopted to examine explicit authorial presence in a comparable corpus of 40 research articles in applied linguistics, psychology, environmental engineering, and chemistry by taking into consideration: (i) the frequency of using exclusive first person plural pronouns (

A cross-disciplinary corpus-based study on English and Chinese native speakers’ use of first-person pronouns in academic English writing

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gao Xia
Keyword(s):  
Computer Science ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
First Person ◽  
Academic English ◽  
English Writing ◽  
Person Pronoun

AbstractThis paper reports on a study that comparatively investigated the differences and similarities in the use of first-person pronouns by English and Chinese native speakers (ENSs and CNSs) in their academic English writing. Using a corpus comprising journal research articles (RAs) from the fields of Physics, Computer Science, Linguistics and Management written by ENSs and CNSs, I present data to reveal that (i) the use of first-person pronouns in Physics is more frequent than that in other disciplines for both ENSs and CNSs; (ii) there are no consistent ENS/CNS frequency differences in first-person pronoun usage across the four disciplines; (iii) the plural first-person pronoun

Self-Reference in biomedical research article discussions

2012 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 546-583 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian A. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Biomedical Research ◽  
English Language ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
First Person ◽  
Research Article ◽  
Multiple Voices ◽  
Person Reference ◽  
Disciplinary Diversity ◽  
Self Reference

The aim of this quantitative and qualitative study is to compare inclusive and exclusive self-reference in a bilingual English-Spanish corpus of biomedical research articles. The study combines corpus techniques with move analysis to determine where authors resort to first-person reference in Discussion sections. Quantitative analysis showed that Spanish writers selected between exclusive and mixed inclusive-exclusive perspectives equally whereas the exclusive perspective predominated in the English-language articles. Major differences between languages were observed for overall use and for statements of results, comparison of current and previous findings, and metatext. From a cross-disciplinary viewpoint, biomedical research articles exhibited less self-promotion than previously reported for biology. Qualitative analysis revealed that first-person verbs in English were frequently associated with self-promotion whereas English possessives and all exclusive use in Spanish served to attribute responsibility for statements and to harmonise the multiple voices in the polyphonic discourse of biomedical Discussions. The study provides further evidence for cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary diversity in academic and scientific discourse.

Agentivity as a determinant of lexico-grammatical variation in L2 academic writing

2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 357-390 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcus Callies
Keyword(s):  
Academic Writing ◽  
Native Speaker ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
First Person ◽  
Advanced Learners ◽  
Academic Texts ◽  
Grammatical Variation ◽  
Novice Writers

This paper examines novice writers’ strategies in the (non-)representation of authorship in academic writing drawing on data from the Corpus of Academic Learner English and a native-speaker control corpus. The analysis focuses on the quantitative and qualitative use of pronouns, subject placeholders, as well as verbs and inanimate nouns that frequently occur in academic writing. The findings indicate that even advanced learners are insecure about the (non-)representation of authorship in academic texts, but lack the resources to report events and findings without mentioning an author-agent. The learner data evidence a significant overrepresentation of first person pronouns and subject placeholders as default strategies to suppress the author-agent. This imbalanced clustering is argued to be due to a significant underrepresentation of constructions with inanimate nouns as subjects that are preferred reporting devices in abstracts and research articles in the humanities. The paper concludes by addressing implications for language teaching, testing and assessment.

scholarly journals SELF-MENTIONS IN APPLIED LINGUISTICS RESEARCH ARTICLES WRITTEN BY INDONESIANS AND NON-INDONESIANS

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 21-26
Author(s):  
Slamet Utomo ◽  
Fitri Budi Suryani
Keyword(s):  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
The Other ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
First Person ◽  
Use Of Self ◽  
Person Plural ◽  
Plural Pronoun ◽  
Frequent Use ◽  
First Person Plural

This study explores self-mentions in Applied Linguistics research articles written by Indonesians and non-Indonesians. Twenty research articles consisting of 10 research articles written by Indonesians, and the other 10 by non-Indonesians were randomly selected from the leading and international Applied Linguistics journal published in 2017-2018. The use of first person pronouns in those articles was recorded and analyzed. The results indicate the more frequent use of self-mentions in the research articles written by Indonesians than by non-Indonesians. However, the use of first person plural pronoun is higher in the research articles written by non-Indonesians.  

scholarly journals A DIACHRONIC STUDY OF THE AUTHORIAL IDENTITY IN TOURISM RESEARCH ARTICLES

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 145
Author(s):  
Gusti Ayu Praminatih
Keyword(s):  
Corpus Linguistics ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
First Person ◽  
Tourism Research ◽  
The Past ◽  
Authorial Identity ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
Writing Research ◽  
Diachronic Study

The use of first-person pronouns (I, we) in writing research articles was remaining problematic for both inexperienced and advanced authors. Nevertheless, some research suggested that the FPPs were increasingly used in writing research articles (RAs) to indicate the authorial identity. This research aimed to investigate types, functions, and correlation of the FPPs in tourism RAs by employing the diachronic corpus linguistics method. The data of this research were accessed and downloaded through five open access journals published by Elsevier. There were 80 selected tourism RAs from the year 2015 to 2020 that classified into five corpora. AntConc was software that was employed to retrieve the FPPs from the corpora. This research discovered the FPPs I and we were constructed as six types of authorial identity that range from the least to the strongest authoritative identity in the past five years. The constructed authorial identity had three main functions for the authors of tourism RAs, tourism as an academic discipline, and the readers of tourism RAs. The statistical calculation showed that the correlation was 0.87 that signified the use of the FPPs was increasing in the following year.  Keywords: authorial identity, diachronic corpus linguistics, the first-person pronouns, tourism research articles. 

scholarly journals Self-mention Markers and their Rhetorical Functions in Dentistry Research Articles: A Corpus-based Study of Intradisciplinary Variations within Seven Dentistry Subdisciplines

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 136
Author(s):  
Hesham Suleiman Alyousef ◽  
Najd Emad Q. Alotaibi
Keyword(s):  
Academic Writing ◽  
Maxillofacial Surgery ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
Genre Studies ◽  
Oral And Maxillofacial Surgery ◽  
First Person ◽  
Discussion Section ◽  
Person Plural ◽  
First Person Plural

Research on intradisciplinary variations in self-mention marker use in research articles (RAs) in dentistry subdisciplines is lacking. The present study investigates self-mention markers used in each of the seven dentistry subdisciplines (oral sciences, periodontics, endodontics, pediatrics, prosthodontics, oral and maxillofacial surgery, and orthodontics), sections of RAs that employ more self-mention devices in each of the seven dentistry subdisciplines, and common rhetorical realizations of first-person pronouns in the seven dentistry subdisciplines. The analytical framework was primarily based on Hyland’s (2003) four rhetorical functions of self-mentions in RAs. The findings showed the lack of qualitative and quantitative intradisciplinary variations across six of the seven dentistry subdisciplines. The first-person plural pronouns “we” and “our” were the most frequently employed self-mention devices in the Discussion section of RAs. Authors in the periodontics subdiscipline preferred to retain an objective stance through the use of passive constructions, abiding by the conventional norms of academic writing that restrict them. The findings also revealed that explaining a procedure and stating findings/claims were the most frequent realizations associated with the use of self-mention devices, with the exception of periodontics RAs that employed passive constructions instead. The findings contribute to the fields of discourse and genre studies as well as ESP/EAP courses. They may have implications for dentistry RA writing and teaching. An awareness of more frequently used self-mentions in dentistry RAs and their rhetorical functions can help English dentistry scholars successfully produce RAs in line with the academic writing norms of each subdiscipline.

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