This corpus-based study examines first-person verbs in Methods sections in English and Spanish. Quantitative analysis was based on rhetorical Move categories and qualitative analysis on linguistic profiles (collocation, colligation, semantic preference and semantic prosody). Both the English and Spanish subcorpora had more texts without first-person verbs than with this verb form. However, in the texts with this feature, the frequency was significantly higher in Spanish and the distribution of the rhetorical Moves associated with the first-person forms was also significantly different. The qualitative analysis revealed that in the English texts, the first-person signals the reasoned choice of a non-standard procedure (32 tokens) compared to only seven standard procedures, whereas in the Spanish texts the distribution was even (25 and 26 tokens, respectively). The results support cross-cultural differences in discourse functions that have implications for both translation and academic writing in cross-cultural contexts.
2024. Interdisciplinary variations of metadiscursive verb patterns in English research articles. International Journal of Applied Linguistics 34:2 ► pp. 603 ff.
Lenart, Istvan, Zoltan Lakner, Laszlo Kovacs & Gyula Kasza
2022. Consumers across cultures: a comparative study about consumers’ role in food safety-related academic literature. British Food Journal 124:12 ► pp. 4610 ff.
Makmillen, Shurli & Michelle Riedlinger
2021. Markers of identification in Indigenous academic writing: A case study of genre innovation. Text & Talk 41:2 ► pp. 165 ff.
Mur-Dueñas, Pilar & Jolanta Šinkūnienė
2016. Self-reference in research articles across Europe and Asia: a review of studies. Brno studies in English :1 ► pp. [71] ff.
2015. Reflexive metadiscourse in research articles in Spanish: Variation across three disciplines (Linguistics, Economics and Medicine). Journal of Pragmatics 77 ► pp. 20 ff.
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