Abstract
The current research aimed at investigating the authorial identity through explicit self-mention markers (I, me, my, we, us, and our) in English research articles written by Indonesian authors. For this purpose, we employed a mix-methods research design consisting of two analysis phases. First, the quantitative analysis was represented by analyzing the frequency of self-mention markers in the corpus of 200 linguistics and applied linguistics research articles using the corpus tool AntConc ver. 3.9.5 (Anthony, 2020). The corpus was compiled from ten journals indexed in SINTA 1 and 2 in the latest five years (2017-2021). Second, the qualitative phase was represented by concordance analysis to interpret the discourse function of self-mention markers in use. We refer to Hyland's taxonomy (Hyland, 2002). Our findings have discovered that Indonesian authors use self-mention in various functions. This research shows the novice authors the extent to which authors can exploit self-mention markers in English research articles and how expert authors in reputable national journals use self mention markers to obtain essential functions to mark their authorial identity. Thus, this research is expected to add insight to EAP/ESL courses to encourage novice writers to construct and represent their identity in conveying their arguments firmly using these self-mentions markers.
Highlights
Academic writings are often regarded as objective and impersonal kind of writing
It is found that in the frequency the self-mention markers are mainly referring to extracts, interview transcripts, abbreviation, for instance "....He uttered: "erm, at home, I already prepared some words for this part, but it was not spoken out.", "...e.g., Tomorrow I have a job to send a parcel..."
This research focused on identifying authorial identity through explicit self-mention markers in the corpus of English research articles in the field of linguistics and applied linguistics by Indonesian authors
Summary
Academic writings are often regarded as objective and impersonal kind of writing. In other words, academic writing authors cannot include their personal views in conveying their research. Academic writings, research articles (RAs), are regarded as arena to create identity in which authors strive for recognition in their academic community (Afsari & Kuhi, 2016). That is what Hyland (2001), (2002a), (2002b) refers to authorial identity. Scholars refer to authorial identity as authors' authority, authors' visibility, authorial stance, and authorial voice (Dontcheva-Navrátilová, 2013; Garzone, 2014; Hyland, 2002a; Ivanič, 1998; Kuo, 1999; Matsuda & Tardy, 2007). The most notable aspects of identity are the authorial self or self as the author It concerns how authors take a stance, expressing opinions and beliefs in their writing, validates authors' ownership of their self-confidence to contribute ideas to their discourse community
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