Chapter published in:
Intercultural Perspectives on Research Writing
Edited by Pilar Mur-Dueñas and Jolanta Šinkūnienė
[AILA Applied Linguistics Series 18] 2018
► pp. 217–235

Chapter 10
Publishing in English

ELF writers, textual voices and metadiscourse

In a global academic environment, increasing attention has been paid to the international use of English for publication purposes. The chapter presents a corpus-based study of the differences between authors’ final versions – seen as a case of writing in English as Lingua Franca – and published versions of papers. The economics component of the SciELF corpus – a collection of unrevised articles by ELF users – is compared to a larger corpus of published articles in Business and Economics. The comparison confirms the “cooperative imperative” of ELF users, though limited to a restricted range of general markers, and suggests a “selling imperative” in the process of revision, emphasizing authorial presence through personal deixis, epistemic markers and lexical cohesion.

Keywords: academic publishing in English, corpus analysis, ELF, textual voices, metadiscourse, language brokers
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Background: Reflexivity and intertextuality in academic discourse
  • 3.Materials and methods
  • 4.Positive keywords: Features of unedited text
    • 4.1Overview
    • 4.2 Analyse/analysed/analysis
    • 4.3Metadiscursive verbs
    • 4.4Metadiscursive nouns
  • 5.Negative keywords: Features of published texts
  • 6.Final remarks
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 06 December 2018
https://doi.org/10.1075/aals.18.10bon
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