“I” AND “WE” IN RESEARCH ARTICLE ABSTRACTS: AN ANALYSIS OF METADISCOURSE
Makale Özetlerinde “Ben” ve “Biz”: Bir Üstsöylem Çözümlemesi

Author : Ekin ŞEN
Number of pages : 62-72

Abstract

The view that scientific texts are formed with neutral and impersonal structures has been criticized especially by Hyland (2005) with the interpersonal model of metadiscourse. The writers use frequently some strategies to express their subjectivity through reflecting of their perspective towards propositional content and readers, encoding themselves explicitly in the text and including the reader as a discourse participant. These strategies are called interactional metadiscourse markers. The first person singular and plural are linguistic units that can be used to reflect these metadiscursive features. The aim of this study is to determine the first person singular and plural uses in the research article abstracts of biology and linguistics, and the metadiscursive functions of these linguistic units. In this study, a database of 150 articles, (75 abstracts from biology and 75 abstracts from linguistics) was built, the first person single and plural uses in this database were determined and the functions of these uses in the text were classified within the framework of the metadiscourse. According to the data obtained in the study, it was found that there are differences between the frequency and metadiscursive functions of these linguistic units in biology and linguistics article abstracts.

Keywords

Metadiscourse, Research Article Abstract, Interaction, Academic Writing

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