The “I” in interaction: authorial presense in academic writing

This study explores the discourse functions of personal pronouns and verb forms referring to writer and reader interaction in a corpus of 60 research articles in the fields of linguistics, psychology and educational research in English and Spanish. Drawing on Tang and John's (1999) taxonomy I e...

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Published inRevista de Linguistica y Lenguas Aplicadas (RLLA) Vol. 8; no. 8; pp. 49 - 58
Main Author Chavez Munoz, Monica
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Spanish
Published Universidad Politécnica de Valencia: Departamento de Lingüística Aplicada 01.01.2013
Universidad Politécnica de Valencia
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contrastive linguistics
personal pronouns
Research articles, Personal pronouns, Contrastive linguistics
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Summary:This study explores the discourse functions of personal pronouns and verb forms referring to writer and reader interaction in a corpus of 60 research articles in the fields of linguistics, psychology and educational research in English and Spanish. Drawing on Tang and John's (1999) taxonomy I elaborate and refine their categories, and propose I as the Interpreter as a new role in the continuum of writers' authorial presence. The analysis reveals that both English and Spanish writers make extensive use of pronominal discourse functions. However, Spanish writers use them more sparingly and prefer different functions when signalling their presence such as pointing to their role as interpreters of data rather than recounters of the research process or originators of an original contribution to the field. Adapted from the source document
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ISSN:1886-2438
1886-6298
DOI:10.4995/rlyla.2013.1162