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A corpus-based study of writer identity in qualitative and quantitative research articles

Academic communication is now widely seen as a social activity where writers interact with their audience. Various studies have shown that authorial presence is one of the key strategies for achieving this interaction. This corpus-based study examines the degree of authorial presence through the u...

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Main Authors: Dobakhti, Leila, Norizah Hassan,
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Published: Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2017
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spelling my-ukm.journal.111572017-12-23T03:39:02Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/11157/ A corpus-based study of writer identity in qualitative and quantitative research articles Dobakhti, Leila Norizah Hassan, Academic communication is now widely seen as a social activity where writers interact with their audience. Various studies have shown that authorial presence is one of the key strategies for achieving this interaction. This corpus-based study examines the degree of authorial presence through the use of first person pronouns (I, we, my, our, me, us) in 150 qualitative and 150 quantitative research articles in Applied Linguistics using the concordance freeware AntcConc.3.4.1w (Anthony 2014). The analysis shows a greater use of self-mention by qualitative research writers compared with their quantitative counterparts, suggesting that research design determines the degree of personal involvement in academic communication within the same discipline. It also suggests that while quantitative research is considered “objective” in nature, the writers still position themselves in their writing and try to interact with their audience. Qualitative analysis of discourse functions of subject pronouns showed great similarity between the two sub-corpora (qualitative and quantitative), stating results/claims and elaborating arguments as being the most frequent functions. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2017 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/11157/1/14189-49548-1-PB.pdf Dobakhti, Leila and Norizah Hassan, (2017) A corpus-based study of writer identity in qualitative and quantitative research articles. 3L; Language,Linguistics and Literature,The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies., 23 (1). pp. 1-14. ISSN 0128-5157 http://ejournal.ukm.my/3l/issue/view/904
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description Academic communication is now widely seen as a social activity where writers interact with their audience. Various studies have shown that authorial presence is one of the key strategies for achieving this interaction. This corpus-based study examines the degree of authorial presence through the use of first person pronouns (I, we, my, our, me, us) in 150 qualitative and 150 quantitative research articles in Applied Linguistics using the concordance freeware AntcConc.3.4.1w (Anthony 2014). The analysis shows a greater use of self-mention by qualitative research writers compared with their quantitative counterparts, suggesting that research design determines the degree of personal involvement in academic communication within the same discipline. It also suggests that while quantitative research is considered “objective” in nature, the writers still position themselves in their writing and try to interact with their audience. Qualitative analysis of discourse functions of subject pronouns showed great similarity between the two sub-corpora (qualitative and quantitative), stating results/claims and elaborating arguments as being the most frequent functions.
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author Dobakhti, Leila
Norizah Hassan,
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Norizah Hassan,
A corpus-based study of writer identity in qualitative and quantitative research articles
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title A corpus-based study of writer identity in qualitative and quantitative research articles
title_short A corpus-based study of writer identity in qualitative and quantitative research articles
title_full A corpus-based study of writer identity in qualitative and quantitative research articles
title_fullStr A corpus-based study of writer identity in qualitative and quantitative research articles
title_full_unstemmed A corpus-based study of writer identity in qualitative and quantitative research articles
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publisher Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
publishDate 2017
url http://journalarticle.ukm.my/11157/1/14189-49548-1-PB.pdf
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