著者

川口 恵子 伊東 田恵 太田 理津子

出版者

関東甲信越英語教育学会

雑誌

関東甲信越英語教育学会誌 (ISSN:21858993)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.29, pp.57-70, 2015 (Released:2017-07-20)

参考文献数

23

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Academic writing has been traditionally viewed as impersonal, but recent corpus-based research has revealed that writers of research articles (RAs) in both scientific and social sciences use first-person pronouns in their RAs for constructing authorial identity. This research focuses on the use of first-person pronouns, powerful linguistic resources to convey an author’s voice. Using two corpora consisting of 21 RAs each by Japanese and native English TESOL researchers, we investigate how first-person pronouns are used to represent the authors in text. We also explore the factors that characterize the Japanese writers’ use of first-person pronouns by referring to the results of a survey conducted on 70 Japanese EFL teachers inquiring about the practice and perception of first-person pronoun use in RAs. The results indicate that the Japanese researchers use first-person pronouns less frequently in their RAs. The further analysis suggests that the low frequency of first-person pronouns may not be caused just by the researchers’ view of academic writing but that different factors such as consideration for the conventions practiced in the discourse community or research methods adopted may be related to the choice of first-person pronouns in RAs.

著者

川口 恵子 伊東 田恵 太田 理津子

出版者

芝浦工業大学

雑誌

基盤研究(C)

巻号頁・発行日

2012-04-01

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著者を指す第1人称代名詞(Iやwe等)が英語教育・工学という2つの異なる分野でどのように使用されているかを出版年代の観点も含め学術誌論文を分析した。各分野の主要学術誌2誌ずつより選んだ約250編が分析対象である。その結果、第1人称代名詞は工学系論文で最もよく使われており、英語教育分野では、日本人研究者の第1人称代名詞の使用頻度は英語母語話者研究者に比べ低いことがわかった。また、工学系論文では20年前と最近の論文での代名詞の使用頻度に差がなかったが、英語教育系論文では年代による差が見られた。大学英語教員に実施したアンケートより、第1人称代名詞の使用は様々な考えに基づいていることがわかった。

著者

川口 恵子 伊東 田恵 太田 理津子

出版者

関東甲信越英語教育学会

雑誌

関東甲信越英語教育学会誌 (ISSN:21858993)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.29, pp.57-70, 2015

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Academic writing has been traditionally viewed as impersonal, but recent corpus-based research has revealed that writers of research articles (RAs) in both scientific and social sciences use first-person pronouns in their RAs for constructing authorial identity. This research focuses on the use of first-person pronouns, powerful linguistic resources to convey an author's voice. Using two corpora consisting of 21 RAs each by Japanese and native English TESOL researchers, we investigate how first-person pronouns are used to represent the authors in text. We also explore the factors that characterize the Japanese writers' use of first-person pronouns by referring to the results of a survey conducted on 70 Japanese EFL teachers inquiring about the practice and perception of first-person pronoun use in RAs. The results indicate that the Japanese researchers use first-person pronouns less frequently in their RAs. The further analysis suggests that the low frequency of first-person pronouns may not be caused just by the researchers' view of academic writing but that different factors such as consideration for the conventions practiced in the discourse community or research methods adopted may be related to the choice of first-person pronouns in RAs.