Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine the use of language expressions as strategies for objectivity in Korean academic papers. To this end, based on statistical data from RISS, a service provided by the Korea Educational Information Service, 60 most recently studied and highly utilized academic papers were selected among papers in the fields of humanities, social science, and education. These papers have a total of 367,520 words, and before closely examining the expressions as strategies for objectivity in the paper, the genre characteristics of the academic paper were reviewed and the strategies for objectivity summarized in the previous study was referred. Since then, expressions that are objectification strategy of academic papers have been extracted, and as a result, language expressions used as strategies for objectivity in academic papers have been divided into 'nominalization', 'passive form', 'depersonalization', and 'tense'. Unlike previous studies, this study is meaningful in that it examines expressions as strategies for objectivity that reflects the characteristics of academic papers only, and summarizes the expression used together, frequency, and the context of expressions as strategies for objectivity.

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