Authorial Identity in Research Articles

Abstract

The present study investigates the employment of self-mentions and their functions in English articles in the field of architecture. To this end, a compiled corpus, composing of the post-method sections of 50 articles, was analyzed both quantitatively and qualitatively. The results shed light on various functions used by English-language writers to express their authorial identity through explicit employment of self-mentions. The findings provide some insights into the rhetorical conventions of the academic discourse community of architects and into employment of these discursive features which are of great importance to EAP teachers and learners. 
 Keywords: Self-mentions, academic articles, academic genre analysis

A corpus-based study of self-mention markers in English research articles

“…Following Ariannejad (2020), Harwood (2005) and Hyland ( 2001), to limit the number of RAs taken from each journal and considering that this corpus needs to be edited and cleaned manually, we decided to take 20 RAs from each journal which was believed to be a representative number of each identified group. In total, we gathered 200 RAs published in 2017-2021, which are hoped to be representative and balanced from ten journals.…”