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Publication details [#42568]

Harwood, Valerie. 2005. Nowhere has anyone attempted … In this article I aim to do just that’: A corpus-based study of self-promotional I and we in academic writing across four disciplines. Journal of Pragmatics 37 (8) : 1207–1231.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

academic language | corpus analysis | personal pronoun | self-presentation | writing

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This qualitative corpus-based study of journal research articles (RAs) from the fields of Business & Management, Computing Science, Economics, and Physics, demonstrates how academic writers can use the personal pronouns I and we to insert a self-promotional flavour in their writings.