Scales / Measurement The Use of First-Person Pronoun “We” in Science Research Articles more

Mon, Nov 15, 11:25-11:50 Asia/Tokyo

In this presentation, how and where the first-person pronoun “we” is used in research articles written in English by authors of different linguistic backgrounds will be discussed. A research article corpus was created to analyze the uses of “we” in different sections of research articles. The metatextual uses of “we” were also examined using the verbs that collocate with “we.” The results show that “we” is widely used throughout science research articles.