Authorial Presence in French and English: “Pronoun + Verb” Patterns in Biology and Medicine Research Articles
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 ar...
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| description | 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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| spelling | doaj-art-b1e9f6f51bb1493096842dfe32d27cbd2025-01-30T09:52:46ZengPresses universitaires de CaenDiscours1963-17232014-12-011510.4000/discours.8941Authorial Presence in French and English: “Pronoun + Verb” Patterns in Biology and Medicine Research ArticlesLaura M. HartwellMarie-Paule JacquesCertain 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 https://journals.openedition.org/discours/8941scientific discoursecorporapronoun useresearch article |
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