چکیده:
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.
خلاصه ماشینی:
com Received:2019-02-02 Accepted: 2019-03-05 *Corresponding Author Abstract This article reports an analysis of the authorial identity presence in the academic papers written by Iranian EFL speakers of Farsi.
Considering the fact that not many studies tried to investigate the academic papers written by Iranian in terms of frequency and the role of identity in their published academic papers, this study was conducted to investigate this issue in order to introduce some fundamental bases for teaching writing skill.
Generally, this study is beneficial for Iranian EFL writing educators in the sense that it will open some positive doors for them to demonstrate how their writer identities can be constructed under the impacts of social and academic factors.
2. Review of literature Several studies have been conducted on the use of identity markers in academic writings (Hyland 2010; Muñoz, 2013; Razmjoo, 2012;Rezvani & Mansouri, 2013).
Rezvani and Mansouri (2013) studied the research papers written by Iranian writers in terms of authorial markers presence.
Hence, they showed that personal pronoun is the most frequent type of authorial markers utilized by the Iranian writers for depicting their identity in their academic writing.
Thus, this study reports on the presence of the authorial identity in the academic papers written by Iranian EFL speakers of Farsi.
Self-mention markers in Iranians’ academic papers (View the image of this page) The findings show that the Iranian speakers performed differently in utilizing the five types of authorial identity markers in their writings, among which the engagement ones received the least portion.