چکیده:
The view that academic writing is purely objective, impersonal and informational, which is often reflected in English for Academic Purposes materials, has been criticized by a number of researchers. By now, the view of academic writing as embodying interaction among writers, readers and the academic community as a whole has been established. Following this assumption, the present study focused on how second/foreign language writers enact, construct, and invent themselves through writing. In this study, the theoretical stance on identity is grounded on Ivanič’s (1998) four interrelated aspects of writer identity, namely autobiographical self, discoursal self, authorial self, and possibilities for self-hood in the socio-cultural and institutional contexts. Hyland’s model of metadiscourse (2004a) was used as the analytical tool for analyzing texts. Based on a corpus of 30 research articles, the overall distribution of evidential markers, hedges, boosters, attitude markers, and self-mentions were calculated across four rhetorical sections (Abstract, Introduction, Methodology, Discussion and Conclusion) of the research articles. According to the results of this study, identity is a critical aspect of writing which should be brought into the mainstream of second/foreign language writing pedagogy through consciousness -raising or the specific teaching of certain features.
خلاصه ماشینی:
"The Journal of Applied Linguistics Vol. 4, Issue 2 Fall 2011 An Exploration of Discoursal Construction of Identity in Academic Writing Davud Kuhi1 Masumeh Rahimivand Department of English Language, Maragheh Bra nch, Islamic Azad University, Maragheh, Iran The view that academic writing is purely objective, impersonal and informational, which is often reflected in English for Academic Purposes materials, has been criticized by a number of researchers.
111) Categories Functions Markers Evidentially Refer to the source of information Withhold writer’s full (Name)/ (date), according to, said… fairly, almost, partly, usually, Hedges commitment to statements Include epidemic uncertainty Sometimes, often, probably, perhaps, signals may… Boosters Emphasize force or writer’s certainty in message Include certainty markers certainly, really, belive demonstrate, totally, always… Attitude markers Express writer’s affective values towards readers and the content Include affective signals Important, interesting, even, Unfortunately, I agree… Self-mentions Explicitly refer to author(s) I, we, our, us, my, me, mine, the author, the author’s, the writer, the writer’s Empirical Studies on Identity Construction Second language writing research with a focus on identity typically involves autobiographical accounts, or ethnographic case studies of individuals or small groups of students.
In such a case, the writer is not the isolated person whose identity is constructed in a social vacuum; rather his/her academic identity is strengthened through statements of elite members of this discourse community: As mentioned in the findings section, with regard to the frequency of metadiscoursal features, hedges or markers of uncertainty stood out as the most dominant category, confirming their decisive role in construction of identity, where the writer needs to strike a difficult balance between commitment to his/her ideas, respect and dialogue with the reader."