خلاصة:
The current study aimed at investigating the authorial identity of Iranian academic writers, who came from three different fields of English, Biology, and Engineering, plus examining the influence of disciplinary conventions on their stance taking in research articles. The main objectives of this study were achieved by going through two main phases, viz. survey administration and corpus study. First, the authorial identity questionnaire was administered to 150 academic writers, 50 from each of the selected fields. Following that, an analysis of variance (ANOVA) was run to locate the difference between authorial identities of academic writers among these groups. Second, as a complementary phase to survey administration, NVivo was utilized to conduct the corpus study phase. In so doing, Hyland’s (2005) model of interaction in academic discourse was applied to analyze academic writers’ stance taking in a corpus comprising 90 articles from the three selected fields. Triangulating the findings, we concluded that academic writers in the field of English rely more on authority, self-representation, and personal projection, while those in the fields of biology and engineering try to take less stance markers and portray their findings more impersonally.
ملخص الجهاز:
Authority or Impersonality: A Mixed-Methods Study of Au- thorial Identity in Iranian Con- text Saman Jamshidi1 Saeed Rezaei*2 Received: 2019-09-25 | Revised: 2019-12-09 | Accepted: 2020-01-08 Abstract The current study aimed at investigating the authorial identity of Iranian academic writers, who came from three different fields of English, Biolo- gy, and Engineering, plus examining the influence of disciplinary conven- tions on their stance taking in research articles.
As Hyland and Jiang (2017) have also reflected, the importance of authorial stance in academic writing is widely acknowledged, since it plays a vital role in “negotiating the acceptance of arguments, allowing writers to adopt positions, and persuade readers to accept them” (p.
2. How do Iranian academic writers in the fields of English, Biology, and Engineering differ in the way they take authorial stance markers in their research articles?
Demographic Information of the Participants in the Survey Administration Phase (View the image of this page) Instrument and Procedure As was mentioned earlier, the current study is a follow-up research and part of a larger project (Jamshidi, 2018) which aimed at developing and validating a model and a questionnaire of authorial identity.
With a glance at the results of the corpus study, it can be inferred that academic writers in different disci- plines present themselves and take an authorial stance in their texts differently with those in the English group and soft sciences taking far more explicitly in- volved and personal positions than those in the biology and engineering fields.