Linguistic Disadvantage and Authorial Identity in Research Articles Written by Native English and Thai Writers in International Publication

Abstract

Research have reported that one of the challenges faced by non-native English writers to have their research articles (RAs) accepted by English-medium journals is to fulfill the journals’ expectations in terms of linguistic aspect. In addition, non-native English writers seem to be having the problem in expressing their authorial identity which is needed to build one’s academic arguments. Therefore, this research was conducted to 1) explore whether linguistic disadvantage exists among native English writers or Thai writers in international publication, and 2) discover how the native English and Thai writers assert their identities through different rhetorical purposes of RAs. Eight university lecturers in Applied Linguistics (AL) from a few universities in Thailand were interviewed to understand their views on the issues of writing for scholarly publication in the English language. The findings revealed two salient emerging themes: (1) the role of linguistic disadvantage and (2) variation in authorial identity between native English and Thai writers. The study has found that linguistic disadvantage exists among the Thai writers. The native English writers expressed their authorial identity overtly but the Thai writers deferred their authorial identity. It is suggested that teachers in Thailand emphasize more on the knowledge of linguistic aspect required in international publication and the effective use of linguistic realization of authorial identity in academic writing.

La voz del profesorado universitario en las guías docentes: Un análisis de las estrategias de posicionamiento en el área de Didáctica de la Lengua y la Literatura

“…Como se ha mencionado con anterioridad, la ausencia de trabajos empíricos en torno al GD es especialmente notorio, pero, además, el enfoque que aquí se presenta también lo es. En efecto, han sido muchos los autores que han trabajado los rasgos de la voz o la autoría, entre otros, en el Artículo de Investigación (Abdi & Farrokhi, 2015;Estaji & Vafaeimehr, 2015;Hu & Cao, 2011;Kim & Lim, 2013;Yotimart & Aziz, 2017) o en la colonia de géneros de tesis (Castro & Sánchez, 2016;Oskueia & Kuhi, 2014;Sánchez-Jiménez, 2017) No obstante, estos estudios sitúan su eje en el análisis léxico-gramatical o en partículas concretas del discurso mientras que, el presente estudio, se desarrolla desde la interpretación estratégico discursiva (Meza, 2016(Meza, , 2017(Meza, , 2018. Esta interpretación define el concepto de la voz del autor como un acto de carácter persuasivo y argumentativo, donde éste se presenta y se valora a sí mismo, exponiendo y estimando su aportación en el texto (Meza, 2016).…”