Authorial presence in academic discourse: functions of author-reference pronouns

• Autorzy: Olga Dontcheva-Navrátilová
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

This paper addresses the issue of authorial presence in contemporary academic discourse. It considers factors influencing authorial presence choices and compares traditional assumptions to current practice in writing academic articles. While exploring the hypothesis that recently there has been a shift from the so-called scientific paradigm established by academic writing style guides to a more subjective mode of academic writing, the study discusses the results of a corpus-based research into authorial presence choices in a corpus of research articles in applied linguistics written by native speakers of English. The findings of the investigation show that the authors exploit various rhetorical functions of author-reference pronouns for maintaining the writer-reader relationship and construing an authoritative authorial voice. The paper also reports the results of a cross-cultural investigation into the ways Anglo-American linguists and Czech linguists approach writer-reader interaction and manifest their authorial voice. It suggests that the lower rate and limited range of functions of author-reference pronouns used by Czech linguists can be explained by their non-native speaker status and the influence of the Czech academic writing literacy.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

authorial presence; academic discourse; author-reference pronouns; genre; research article; crosscultural variation

• Wydawca: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Czasopismo: Linguistica Pragensia
• Rocznik: 2013
• Tom: 23
• Numer: 1
• Strony: 9-30

Twórcy

autor

Olga Dontcheva-Navrátilová

• Department of English Language and ELT Methodology Faculty of Arts, Charles University nam. Jana Palacha 2, Praha 1, 116 38 , Czech Republic