Representation of self and authorial presence in academic writing: A look at natural science texts

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Representation of self and authorial presence in academic writing: A look at natural science texts

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

This contribution assesses the representation of the self (or: selves i.e. the authors) in texts of different natural-science disciplines and tries to establish distributional features in the different disciplinary cultures, especially between the physical sciencews and the biosciences. The representation of the self is also to differing degrees manifest in text types like research articles (RAs) in comparison to popular science treatments. In EAP (for: English for Academic Purposes) style guides, advice is administered how to keep the author out of the text, for example by using the passive voice (see Wallwork 2016). But the question remains whether the actual publishing practice reflects this. However, this can be investigated empirically. For this end, this contribution queries a mid-size parallel corpus of academic texts in order to investigate distribution differences in natural science texts. The corpus (called SPACE for Specialized and Academic Corpus of English) has been compiled to address genre differences in a parallel structure. The contribution discusses general practices in academic writing, defines self-mention classes which provide a number of categories of authorial presence representations and examines data obtained from standard corpora in comparison to those queried from the custom-made SPACE corpus. As a result, disciplinary and genre boundaries can be established with lexico-statistic means.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Representation of self and authorial presence in academic writing: A look at natural science texts

Popis výsledku anglicky

This contribution assesses the representation of the self (or: selves i.e. the authors) in texts of different natural-science disciplines and tries to establish distributional features in the different disciplinary cultures, especially between the physical sciencews and the biosciences. The representation of the self is also to differing degrees manifest in text types like research articles (RAs) in comparison to popular science treatments. In EAP (for: English for Academic Purposes) style guides, advice is administered how to keep the author out of the text, for example by using the passive voice (see Wallwork 2016). But the question remains whether the actual publishing practice reflects this. However, this can be investigated empirically. For this end, this contribution queries a mid-size parallel corpus of academic texts in order to investigate distribution differences in natural science texts. The corpus (called SPACE for Specialized and Academic Corpus of English) has been compiled to address genre differences in a parallel structure. The contribution discusses general practices in academic writing, defines self-mention classes which provide a number of categories of authorial presence representations and examines data obtained from standard corpora in comparison to those queried from the custom-made SPACE corpus. As a result, disciplinary and genre boundaries can be established with lexico-statistic means.

Druh

J_ost - Ostatní články v recenzovaných periodicích

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60203 - Linguistics

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2017

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Journal of Anglophone Studies

ISSN

2336-3347

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

4

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1

Stát vydavatele periodika

CZ - Česká republika

Počet stran výsledku

11

Strana od-do

53-63

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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