What is it about?
A corpus-based study of authorial visibility through the first person plural pronouns in research articles: Variation across four disciplines (Applied Linguistics, Psychology, Environmental engineering, and Chemistry).
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Why is it important?
This study looked through an interdisciplinary lens at the third type of self-representation, ‘the self as author’, which has garnered remarkable concern in the scrutiny of explicit authorial presence in academic writing. The results help to broaden our understanding of disciplinary variations towards self-mentions usage in academic writings in the four communities, particularly in the under-researched disciplines of environmental engineering and chemistry.
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This study matters because it supplements the sparse knowledge in the research field. The study specifically reports how self-regulating interactional resources, such as the first person plural pronouns (we and its corresponding forms) are perceived and used as a means of understanding about rhetorical cultures in the disciplines, and how community members adequately create their personal ethos and market themselves and their study as well.
Dr Mohsen Khedri
University of Malaya
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This page is a summary of: Are we visible? An interdisciplinary data-based study of self-mention in research articles, Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics, January 2016, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/psicl-2016-0017.
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