Authorial Identity through Self-Mention Markers in English Research Articles Written by Indonesian Authors: A Corpus-Based Study
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2022-03-23
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The present corpus-based study aims to identify the authorial identity of Indonesian authors through the use of self-mention markers. This research employs the main theory from Hyland (2002) and Hyland (2005) regarding the authorial identity and self-mention markers, which was pioneered by Ivanič (1998). For this purpose, the corpus is built from 200 English RAs written by Indonesian authors in linguistics and applied linguistics published in 2017-2021. The research employs a mixed-method design (Creswell & Creswell, 2018) which comprises by two phases. Quantitative phase is represented by frequency analysis to generate the frequency of the self-mention markers in the corpus. The qualitative phase is represented concordance analysis to gain an in depth understanding of the discourse function to measure the degree of authorial identity. Based on the results, the implicit self-mention markers (78%) are largely used by the authors, particularly the researcher(s) (760), the writer(s) (169) and the author(s) (35). The explicit self-mention markers (22%) in the corpus are I (71), me (1), my (22), we (140), us(13), and our(22). Overall, I discovered that these authors had used the self-mention markers to project their authorial identity, although they 65% more intense in explaining a procedure, which reflects a low-risk function. As a result, the linguistics and applied linguistics authors in this corpus are still unfamiliar with the importance of self-mention markers to construct their identity. Thus, this research is expected to add insight to EAP courses to encourage novice writers to construct and represent their identity in conveying their arguments firmly using these self-mentions markers. It is also expected that they can be accepted on the broader discourse community and push a higher publication rate nationally and internationally.
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corpus-based study, authorial identity, self-mention markers