What is it about?
The paper proposes five different pragmatic functions that can be assigned to first-person pronouns besides the very general "authorial presence". It is a corpus-based piece focusing on late Modern English Scientific writing.
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Why is it important?
It is relevant because no detailed pragmatic functional classification had been proposed until 2020 by this author.
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Prof Isabel Moskowich
Universidade da Coruna
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This page is a summary of: Pronominal Functions in Female Scientific Discourse: CoWITE and the Coruña Corpus, Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses, January 2026, University of La Laguna,
DOI: 10.25145/j.recaesin.2026.92.02.
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