Journal of new advances in English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics

Journal of new advances in English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics

A Study of Authorial Identity Presence in Academic Articles: the Case of Iranian Scholars

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Zahra Zarei
Hossein Saadabadi Motlagh
Department of English, Bushehr Branch, Islamic Azad University, Bushehr, Iran
Abstract
This article reports an analysis of the authorial identity presence in the academic papers written by Iranian EFL speakers of Farsi. To this end, a corpus of papers was gathered from different journals and websites. Out of the gathered papers, the ones which were appropriate for the purpose of the study were selected as the sample, i.e. 20 papers written by Iranian EFL speakers of Farsi. To this end, Hyland’s (2004) identity categorization was chosen as the model of analysis which considers five types of stance for representing identity, namely, hedges, boosters, attitude markers, engagement markers, and self-mention markers. The content of the corpus was analyzed for instances of authorial markers Iranian writers utilized to manifest themselves in their works. It is worth mentioning that the Iranians’ tendency was toward using attitude markers as a representation of authorial identity in their academic papers while engagement markers were the most salient authorial identity markers.
Keywords
Academic writing
Identity
Attitude Markers
Engagement
Self-mention
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  • Receive Date 02 February 2019
  • Revise Date 05 March 2019
  • Accept Date 05 March 2019