Linguistics research articles written in English: comparing native English speakers and Polish writers

Abstract

This paper addresses the issue of writing for publication in English to elucidate, on the one hand, how writing styles of scholars from two cultural regions -Polish and Anglo-American -differ at the level of article structure. On the other, it explores the extent to which internationalizing forces inside one discourse community (specialists in linguistics) can override differences. For this purpose, a qualitative, cross-linguistic and cross-cultural study was conducted to compare texts written in English by native speakers with such articles by Polish authors. The issue is increasingly significant because current scientific progress and globalization has stimulated the need to share research findings in all fields of science using English as the main language of international publication.

Expressing authorial self in research articles written by Polish and English native-speaker writers: A corpus-based study

“…The location of pronouns, determiners and the lexical items in the IMRD structure (Introduction-Method-Results-Discussion) is also researched. In this structure, typical of articles in experimental sciences, each section performs a different communicative function (see Hryniuk, 2017). The results of the study carry important implications for teaching academic writing for publication in EFL settings by enabling the formulation of clearer instructions for novice writers.…”

Working with Text and Around Text in Foreign Language Environments

“…This type of citation foregrounds the information rather than the author cited. First of all, these results may derive from the fact that, as was mentioned earlier in this article, in 40 % of the Polish sub-corpus the discussion section was missing or was joined with the results section, and in 40 % of the Anglo-American sub-corpus, the conclusion section was combined with the discussion section or was absent (Hryniuk, 2015). Another finding of the study is that among integral citations, verb-controlling ones prevail, i.e., the author cited is most often in the subject position in a sentence.…”

“…For the purpose of the present analyses, the same corpus was used as in the author's previous study (Hryniuk, 2015). It consisted of 20 research articles written by English native-speakers, and 20 by Polish writers, specialists in applied linguistics.…”

“…It consisted of 20 research articles written by English native-speakers, and 20 by Polish writers, specialists in applied linguistics. In 40 % of the articles from the Anglo-American sub-corpus, on the other hand, the conclusion sections were merged with the discussions or they were absent (Hryniuk, 2015). The articles written by English native-speakers were selected from two anglophone international journals published in the US, and those written by Polish native-speakers, from two English-medium journals published in Poland.…”

Expert-Like Use of Hedges and Boosters in Research Articles Written by Polish and English Native-Speaker Writers

“…In order to address the research questions, the same corpus of 40 research articles was used as in my previous studies (see : Hryniuk 2015: Hryniuk , 2016: Hryniuk , 2017. It consisted of 20 research articles written by Polish writers, and 20 by native English speakers.…”