Authorial Presence in French and English: 'Pronoun + Verb' Patterns in Biology and Medicine Research Articles

Autor: Laura M. Hartwell, Marie-Paule Jacques
Jazyk: English<br />French
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: Discours, Vol 15 (2014)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1963-1723
DOI: 10.4000/discours.8941
Popis: Certain subjective qualities of scientific research articles are exposed when authors refer to themselves through various means including pronoun use. Drawing upon the online bilingual “Scientext” corpus, we compare personal pronoun and syntactically linked verb constructions within 180 published articles in English and French in the fields of medicine and biology. This study found that overall pronoun frequency was significantly higher (χ2 = 69.45, df = 1, p
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