Abstract
Authorial presence is the prominent feature of personal metadiscourse. The most significant representation of the writer’s visibility can be represented by using personal pronouns. It helps to establish a direct link between the writer and reader through text. Conversely, writer’s persona in research theses has not received much attention, especially in the field of English and Psychology in Pakistani context. Viewing academic discourse as an interaction, this paper investigates the use of writers’ visibility markers in Pakistani research theses of English and Psychology. Drawing on Karahan’s (2012) classification, the frequency and discourse functions of personal pronouns were explored. The results of this investigation exhibit significant variation in the exploitation of self-mentioning pronouns across two disciplines.
Highlights
The voice of author in textual discourse is a contentious matter
Viewing academic discourse as an interaction, this paper investigates the use of writers’ visibility markers in Pakistani research theses of English and Psychology
The major purpose of the current study is to investigate disciplinary variation in using personal pronouns by analyzing the corpus of Pakistani research theses of two disciplines: English and Psychology
Summary
The voice of author in textual discourse is a contentious matter. The impersonal reporting of academic genre had been in vogue for many years. There are several ways for writers to show their visibility in the text They construct their identities by employing a combination of rhetorical patterns such as using first person pronouns in the text. Personal pronouns facilitate the authors to distinguish their voice from the perspective of other writers and establish a liaison with the readers. It has become a crucial source for publicizing one’s identity and getting recognition. The major purpose of the current study is to investigate disciplinary variation in using personal pronouns by analyzing the corpus of Pakistani research theses of two disciplines: English and Psychology. This research aims to find out frequency differences in personal pronouns used by Pakistani writers of English and Psychology. It intends to find out the discourse functions performed by the first person pronoun, “I” by Pakistani writers of English and Psychology
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