| 초록 |
Eun, Hoyoon. (2022). Authorial reference and rhetorical functions in research articles of mathematics and linguistics. The Linguistic Association of Korea Journal, 30(4), 191-210. This study explores how academic authors of different fields present themselves in the text and how they build up authorial identities with rhetorical functions of authorial referential expressions. The corpus for this study is comprised of 72 research articles (RAs) written in English in the areas of mathematics and linguistics. The frequency of authorial referential expressions was analyzed statistically and their rhetorical functions were also investigated qualitatively, based on Hylands (2002) classifications. The results report the significant overuse of first-person plural pronouns in the corpus of mathematics although the corpus consists of all single-authored RAs. Meanwhile, various types of authorial referential markers are used in the corpus of linguistics. Also, authors of linguistics select more diverse rhetorical functions than the ones of mathematics. We can say that a discipline influences the choice of authorial referential markers more significantly than a language. The study ends with suggestions that EAP learners and RA authors should be more aware of authorial reference and their rhetorical functions. |
