Verbalization of the Writer in Academic Prose

Krapivkina, Olga A.

doi:10.17516/1997-1370-2015-8-8-1625-1634

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“…22 instances of first-person pronouns (1.32 p10kw) expressed this authorial role. This finding supports Krapivkina (2015), who reported that we is mostly used to mark the stance of a representative in research articles.…”

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“…The presence of authors in scientific texts, especially research articles, has been investigated by a number of researchers (Hyland, 2002;2002b;2003;Dontcheva-Navratilova, 2013;Martin Martin, 2003;Hryniuk, 2018;Kuo, 1999;Krapivkina, 2015;Isler, 2018). In general, they examine the forms, or the grammatical aspects, as well as the functions of firstperson pronouns used in selected texts based on the criteria upon which each researcher decided.…”

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A Corpus-Based Study of Writer Identities in Biology Research Articles: Clusivity and Authorial Self

Rozanatunnisa

Hardjanto²

2022

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An academic writing, especially a research article, is commonly, but vaguely considered that it has to be impersonal. In other words, there is a common discouragement to express writer identities in academic writings. Yet, it is recently discovered that personal attribution has such a significant role to display the interaction both between the authors and the readers and the authors and other researchers in the field. In this paper, I investigate the linguistic forms used to indicate writer identity in a number of selected research articles, and how they are used in terms of their clusivity as well as authorial self these linguistic forms construct. The data were taken from two reputable international journals: 10 research articles taken from Genome Biology, and the other 10 were taken from Molecular Systems Biology. These data were analyzed with the help of Wordsmith 5.0 (Scott 2008), an offline application which allows us to discover the occurrences of authorial references used in research articles and make concordances. A qualitative analysis was also conducted to examine the clusivity and the authorial self each linguistic form expresses. Classification on authorial selves was based on a taxonomy proposed by Tang & John (1999). The findings of this research are then aimed at indicating a tendency of writers in attributing themselves in academic writing, especially in biology research articles, where authors show more authority in their writing with the use of frequent authorial references expressing themselves as the recounters of the research process.

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A Corpus-Based Study of Writer Identities in Biology Research Articles: Clusivity and Authorial Self

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“…Based on frequency of linguistic features that indicate writer's stances, namely the researcher, the opinion holder, and the representative, O. Krapivkina compared papers written in English and in Russian. It was found that Russian authors preferred first-person plural pronouns, the third person and agentless passives while English language writers used both first-person singular and plural, agentless constructions, third person with human reference, and personified point of view constructions (Krapivkina, 2015). Although the studies mentioned provide some quantitative data and the results seem plausible, they can hardly be validated as the authors do not employ corpus methodology.…”

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Corpus-based Contrastive Study of Discursive Strategy of Construing Interpersonal Relations in English Language Academic Discurse

Kochetova¹,

Kononova²

2018

J. Sib. Fed. Univ., Humanit. soc. sci.

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Based on comparison of two corpora, BE2006 sub-corpus of learned (academic) prose and corpus of English language texts written by Russian scholars compiled by the authors, the article seeks to find out differences in interpersonal relations as they are construed in Englishlanguage L1 and English as a foreign language academic discourse. The study focuses on the use of the first person plural pronoun that being a genre convention admits exclusive and inclusive uses in their reference and represents culturally determined discursive strategy of construing communicative categories of solidarity, credibility, politeness, etc. Applying corpus methodology, the authors intend to reveal if there is a statistically significant difference in the frequencies of the first person plural pronoun, and what the use of the first person plural pronoun reveals about interpersonal relations within the compared data from academic discourses under study. Although the statistical tests did not indicate significant differences in the frequency of the pronoun in the contrasted corpora, qualitative analysis of the discourse data revealed that in the EFL corpus inclusive we is employed to persuade the addressee to share and accept the author's arguments whereas in the BE2006 corpus it is used to construe solidarity based on common background, shared beliefs and opinions.The reported research was funded by Russian Foundation for Basic Research and the government of Volgograd region, Research area: philology.Citation: Kochetova, L.A., Kononova, I.V. (2018). Сorpus-based contrastive study of discursive strategy of construing interpersonal relations in English language academic discourse. J. Sib. Fed. Univ. Humanit. soc. sci.

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“…As expressions of authorial identities, first-person pronouns have been examined in various genres in such academic writing as research articles (e.g., Hyland, 2001;Işık-Taş, 2018;Sanderson, 2008), RA abstracts (Kim, 2015; Martí n Martí n, 2003), RA methods sections (Harwood, 2005b;Martinez, 2018), and theses (Hyland, 2002b;Isler, 2018;Karoly, 2009). Comparisons have also been attempted between the use of first-person pronouns in research articles written in English and those in Bulgarian, French, German and Russian (Vassileva, 1998), Croatian (Basic & Veselica-Majhut, 2016); French (Hartwell & Jacques, 2014), French, German and Italian (Rentel, 2012), German (Sanderson, 2008), Persian (Tayyebi, 2012), Polish (Hryniuk, 2018), Russian (Krapivkina, 2015), Spanish (Mur-Dueñas, 2011), and Turkish (Işık-Taş, 2018). These studies have shown that scientific disciplines (see, e.g., Harwood, 2005b;Hyland, 2001Hyland, , 2002a and writing cultures (see, e.g., Mur Dueñas, 2007; Mur-Dueñas, 2011; Vassileva, 1998) significantly affect the use of first-person pronouns as expressions of authorial identities.…”

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“However, we argue that ...”: The Construction of Authorial Identities in English Research Articles

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This research investigates how professional authors construct their authorial identities in English research articles (RAs). Sixty research articles were selected from three disciplines, biology, linguistics, and medicine, published by native and non-native authors in reputable international journals. First-person references in the articles were analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively with the help of corpus linguistic methods to examine the identities they were used to express, their density, and their cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary variation. The findings showed that native and non-native authors frequently employed authorial references in their English RAs. The results showed striking similarities in the density of authorial references and the identities they express in the RAs published by both groups. However, there was a significant difference in authorial references and identities by these groups of authors across different disciplines, with the hard sciences employing significantly more frequent authorial references than the soft sciences. The findings suggest that while research publication at the highest level does not seem to affect the construction of authorial identities, disciplinary practices significantly affect authorial identity construction. It is argued that authorial references may be an essential feature of written academic interaction at the highest level. They allow authors to create identities serving as humble servants to seek cooperation and emphasize solidarity with their disciplinary communities and as knowledge originators to stress personal contribution to their respective disciplines.

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Verbalization of the Writer in Academic Prose

Abstract: The paper presents an empirical analysis of the tools writers use to verbalize their stances in academic

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A Corpus-Based Study of Writer Identities in Biology Research Articles: Clusivity and Authorial Self

A Corpus-Based Study of Writer Identities in Biology Research Articles: Clusivity and Authorial Self

Corpus-based Contrastive Study of Discursive Strategy of Construing Interpersonal Relations in English Language Academic Discurse

“However, we argue that ...”: The Construction of Authorial Identities in English Research Articles

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