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Scales / Measurement College & University Education Research-Oriented Short Presentation

The Use of First-Person Pronoun “We” in Science Research Articles

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

Location: Room 05

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.

  • Kaoru Kobayashi

    I teach English to life science majors at a Japanese university. My interest is in metadiscourse analyses and vocabulary learning strategies.

  • Kenta Arai

    I study life science. I am interested in life science texts written in English.