کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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360164 | 620438 | 2016 | 13 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
• A corpus of 36 research articles (18 from history, 18 from anthropology) was compiled.
• An investigation into the use of first-person subject pronouns was conducted.
• ‘I’ was used more frequently in the anthropology articles.
• Considerable intra-disciplinary variation was observed.
• An author role termed “Narrative I” is introduced.
The aim of this study was to investigate the deployment of self-mentions in 18 history and 18 anthropology published research articles. ‘I’ was used more frequently in the anthropology articles than in history articles, a finding that can be traced to the knowledge-making practices of the disciplines. However, considerable intra-disciplinary variation was also observed, both in terms of frequency of self-mentions per article and the author roles adopted via the use of the first-person subject pronoun. Based on the results, I argue that there is a need to raise students' awareness of intra-as well as interdisciplinary variation in academic discourse, particularly in the humanities.
Journal: Journal of English for Academic Purposes - Volume 21, March 2016, Pages 86–98