期刊名称：Discours. Revue de linguistique, psycholinguistique et informatique
电子版ISSN：1963-1723
出版年度：2014
期号：15
DOI：10.4000/discours.8941
语种：English
出版社：Laboratoire LATTICE, UMR 8094 ENS/CNRS
摘要：Certain subjective qualities of scientific research articles are exposed when authors refer to themselves through various means including pronoun use. Drawing upon the online bilingual “Scientext” corpus, we compare personal pronoun and syntactically linked verb constructions within 180 published articles in English and French in the fields of medicine and biology. This study found that overall pronoun frequency was significantly higher (χ2 = 69.45, df = 1, p < 0.001) in English (22.6 per 10,000) than in French (14 per 10,000) and that the French on [one] (23.8%) was significantly more frequent (χ2 = 163.35, df = 1, p < 0.001) than the English pronoun “one” (3.8%). Furthermore, while most French verbs were limited to the present and passé composé, English conjugation was distributed mainly between the simple past, the simple present, and the present perfect. Both the lexis and the conjugation vary with the progression of the research article and the author roles of researcher, writer, arguer, and evaluator. This paper contributes to the discussion of the representation of objectivity in scientific discourse.
其他摘要：Certain subjective qualities of scientific research articles are exposed when authors refer to themselves through various means including pronoun use. Drawing upon the online bilingual “Scientext” corpus, we compare personal pronoun and syntactically linked verb constructions within 180 published articles in English and French in the fields of medicine and biology. This study found that overall pronoun frequency was significantly higher (χ2 = 69.45, df = 1, p < 0.001) in English (22.6 per 10,000) than in French (14 per 10,000) and that the French on [one] (23.8%) was significantly more frequent (χ2 = 163.35, df = 1, p < 0.001) than the English pronoun “one” (3.8%). Furthermore, while most French verbs were limited to the present and passé composé, English conjugation was distributed mainly between the simple past, the simple present, and the present perfect. Both the lexis and the conjugation vary with the progression of the research article and the author roles of researcher, writer, arguer, and evaluator. This paper contributes to the discussion of the representation of objectivity in scientific discourse.
关键词：discours scientifique; corpus; utilisation de pronom; article de recherche
其他关键词：scientific discourse; corpora; pronoun use; research article
