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‘Nowhere has anyone attempted … In this article I aim to do just that’
Abstract
This paper is a qualitative corpus-based study of how academic writers can use the personal pronouns I and we to help to create a self-promotional tenor in their prose. Using a corpus comprising journal research articles (RAs) from the fields of Business & Management, Computing Science, Economics, and Physics, I present data extracts which reveal how I and we can publicize the writer and their work even though the pronouns are ostensibly helping...
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Title
‘Nowhere has anyone attempted … In this article I aim to do just that’
Published Date
Aug 1, 2005
Journal
Volume
37
Issue
8
Pages
1207 - 1231
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