چکیده:
Recently, constructing professional identity has received an increasing attention. By adopting and adapting analytical tools of critical discourse analysis (CDA), this study explored the ways through which identities of the qualitative researchers had been projected in 4 applied linguistics articles. This study intended to find out whether the authors of qualitative research articles in applied linguistics tended to prioritize particular linguistic elements in representing their identities. Detailed descriptive analyses based on 4 CDA and discourse analysis taxonomies revealed that the qualitative researchers had a particular pattern to show human and nonhuman social actors in their writings. Human social actors (teachers and learners) were preferred to nonhuman social actors (textbooks), and teachers were the focus of attention more frequently than learners. Also, human social actors were considered as individuals, rather than groups in the majority of cases. In addition, mental processes were found to be employed more than material processes in order to contribute to the subjective interpretation and greater visibility for the researchers. Although the linguistic devices which help human social actors to be seen more vividly like inclusion and activation were used more than other devices, elements like transition, self-mentions, hedges, and code glosses were also employed. Findings may be considered useful for teachers and educators and may help them become more self-conscious about identity issues embedded in research articles.
خلاصه ماشینی:
By adopting and adapting analytical tools of critical discourse analysis (CDA), this study explored the ways through which identities of the qualitative researchers had been projected in 4 applied linguistics articles.
Keywords: Applied Linguistics Research Articles; Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA); Qualitative Researchers; Researcher Identity; Teacher Education 1Please cite this paper as follows: Rahimpour, S.
2. Literature Review Although the discourse of academic writing has been addressed in different studies (Breivega & Fløttum, 2002; Bunton, 1999; Hyland, 1999, 2001a, 2002a, 2002b; Lafuente Millán, 2010; Lillis, 2011; Molino, 2010; Thompson, 2001), little attention seems to have been paid to the identity of the researcher in his or her academic writing.
Moreover, despite great interest in identity (Block, 2006a; Gao & Wen, 2007; Hall, 1996; Ivanič, 1998; Jackson, 2008; Jenkins, 2007; Kanno, 2003; Norton, 2000; Omoniyi & White, 2006; Tang & John, 1999; Virkkula & Nikula, 2010), it is not simple to find a comprehensive definition that encompasses its various meanings.
Employing the taxonomies in CDA and discourse analysis suggested by van Leeuwen (2008), Gee (2014), Halliday and Matthiessen (2004), and Hyland (2004), this study was an attempt to find out specific ways through which qualitative researchers represent their identities in their research articles.
Activation/Passivation in Four Qualitative Research Articles Metadiscourse in Applied Linguistics The analysis shows that activation was used in about 73% of times, given the total occurrence of the activation of different social actors altogether.
3% according to Hyland (2001b), the corpus analysis based on AntConc revealed that the qualitative researchers used impersonal language and self-mention devices frequently in their articles (5.