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

<p class="Standard"><span>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. Dra...

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Main Author: Monica Chavez Munoz
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Language:English
Published: Universitat Politècnica de València 2013-07-01
Series:Revista de Lingüística y Lenguas Aplicadas
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Online Access:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/rdlyla/article/view/1162
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description <p class="Standard"><span>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 <em>I as the Interpreter</em> as a new role in the continuum of writers’ authorial presence.  <span>The analysis reveals that </span>both English and Spanish writers make extensive use of pronominal discourse functions. However, <span>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. </span></span></p><p class="Standard"> </p>
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spelling doaj-art-059721e27b9b4cc5b9c4b3ffa69c42212025-08-20T01:47:51ZengUniversitat Politècnica de ValènciaRevista de Lingüística y Lenguas Aplicadas1886-24381886-62982013-07-0180495810.4995/rlyla.2013.1162The “I” in interaction: authorial presense in academic writingMonica Chavez Munoz<p class="Standard"><span>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 <em>I as the Interpreter</em> as a new role in the continuum of writers’ authorial presence.  <span>The analysis reveals that </span>both English and Spanish writers make extensive use of pronominal discourse functions. However, <span>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. </span></span></p><p class="Standard"> </p>http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/rdlyla/article/view/1162Research articles, Personal pronouns, Contrastive linguistics
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The “I” in interaction: authorial presense in academic writing
Revista de Lingüística y Lenguas Aplicadas
Research articles, Personal pronouns, Contrastive linguistics
title The “I” in interaction: authorial presense in academic writing
title_full The “I” in interaction: authorial presense in academic writing
title_fullStr The “I” in interaction: authorial presense in academic writing
title_full_unstemmed The “I” in interaction: authorial presense in academic writing
title_short The “I” in interaction: authorial presense in academic writing
title_sort i in interaction authorial presense in academic writing
topic Research articles, Personal pronouns, Contrastive linguistics
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