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Publication details [#45806]

Harwood, Nigel. 2007. Political scientists on the functions of personal pronouns in their writing: An interview-based study of 'I' and 'we'. Text & Talk 27 (1) : 27–54.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter

Annotation

This paper features five political scientists who comment upon the pronoun use in their own journal articles and in the other informants' texts, thus identifying seven textual effects that the personal pronouns 'I' and 'we' help to build.