Title Autoriaus pozicijos raiška asmeniniais įvardžiais rašytiniame akademiniame diskurse /
Another Title Personal pronouns and authorial presence in written academic discourse.
Authors Šinkūnienė, Jolanta
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Is Part of Filologija / Šiaulių universitetas.. Šiauliai : Šiaulių universiteto leidykla. 2010, t. 15, p. 124-141.. ISSN 1392-561X
Keywords [eng] Authorial stance ; Academic discourse ; Personal pronouns
Abstract [eng] During the last few decades there has been a growing interest in academic discourse as well as in writer identity and the presence of author’s voice in scientific writing. It has been suggested by ex­tensive research that academic discourse is far from being purely rigid and propositional. The author’s ex­plicit or implicit presence in academic texts does not only exist, but is also employed as a tool to pursue a variety of pragmatic and rhetoric functions (Myers 1989; Swales 1990; Duszak 1997; Ivanič 1998; Hyland 1998, 2001, 2005; Vassileva 2001; Breivega et al. 2002; Latour 2002; Dahl 2008, 2009). One of the ways to manifest the authorial presence in the text is by the use of personal pronouns I and we. By employing personal pronouns and shifting between first person singular pronoun as well as inclusive and ex­clusive we, the authors can guide the reader through the text, state personal opinion and show commitment to the proposition ex­pressed, ex­plain the research procedures, report the results and generally indicate the link between themselves and the audience. The presence of personal pronouns, just as well as their absence, can reveal certain characteristics of a particular academic discourse as well as conventions of writing in a particular culture or science field. The aim of this paper is to look at the use of personal pronouns in academic discourse from cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary perspectives. The corpus (ca 300 000 words) used for this study is comprised from research articles in Linguistics and Medicine in Lithuanian and English. The preliminary findings of this study lead to the conclusion that it is possible to talk about cross-cultural as well as about cross-disciplinary differences within academic genre as far as the ex­pression of authorial presence is concerned.
Published Šiauliai : Šiaulių universiteto leidykla
Type Journal article
Language Lithuanian
Publication date 2010