Language, Culture and Identity in Applied Linguistics - Richard Kiely

Language, Culture and Identity in Applied Linguistics - Richard Kiely

Revealing and obscuring the writer’s identity: evidence from a corpus of theses

Language, Culture and Identity in Applied Linguistics - Richard Kiely

Maggie Charles [+-]
University of Oxford
Maggie Charles is a Tutor in English for Academic Purposes at Oxford University Language Centre, where she teaches academic writing to postgraduates. Her research interests are in the study of evaluation, phraseology, discipline-specific EAP and the application of insights from corpus linguistics to the teaching of academic writing. She has recently published papers which take a corpus approach to the analysis of stance and the use of citation in theses.

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In this study the major focus is on the use of impersonal patterns. It is argued that although non-native speakers may indeed construct less powerful and overt identities, this does not necessarily imply that the use of impersonal forms obscures a writer’s identity completely or leads to a text that is lacking in authority. Indeed it would suggest that all academic writers, whether student or professional, need sometimes to obscure and sometimes to reveal their identity within their texts.

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Charles, Maggie. Revealing and obscuring the writer’s identity: evidence from a corpus of theses. Language, Culture and Identity in Applied Linguistics. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 147-161 Dec 2006. ISBN 9781845532192. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=25614. Date accessed: 28 Mar 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.25614. Dec 2006

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