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Publication details [#42686]

Harwood, Nigel. 2005. ‘We Do Not Seem to Have a Theory ... The Theory I Present Here Attempts to Fill This Gap’: Inclusive and Exclusive Pronouns in Academic Writing. Applied Linguistics 26 (3) : 343–375.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

academic language | corpus analysis | knowledge | pronoun | writing

Place, Publisher

Oxford University Press

Journal WWW

http://www3.oup.co.uk/applij/contents/

Annotation

This paper discusses how academic writers employ the personal pronoun 'I' and inclusive and exclusive 'we' to give their writings a sense of newsworthiness and novelty, demonstrating how they are coping with disciplinary knowledge gaps.