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2.1 Definition and Classification of Self-mentions

The term self-mention first appears in Ivanić’s book Writing and Identity (1998: 46) which illustrates self-mention as “the way authors use first-person pronouns and possessive adjectives (/, me, mine, exclusive we, our, ours) to construct authorial presence”. Hyland (1998) used the term person marker to express the same notion, which contains first-person pronouns I, we, my, mine, and our to show explicit reference to the authors. Furthermore, Hyland (2005: 53) proposed that self-mention is part of interactional metadiscourse and its occurrence frequency can indicate the degree of authorial existence in the texts. On that basis, Liu (2014) gives a clear definition of self-mentions in her research: self-mentions are words used by the writers to refer to themselves in the writings, and finds that they are usually achieved through first-person pronouns.

Self-mentions are classified by researchers and scholars in much the same way. Hyland (2001) suggests that self-mentions include three categories, namely, first-person pronouns in singular and plural forms I, me, we, us, my, and our, third personal nouns the writer and the author, and abstract nouns the paper and the research. Similarly, Liu (2011) puts forward that self-mentions are composed of three components including first personal pronouns, third personal nouns, and non-personal nouns, which follows the classification framework of Hyland (2001). However, Dueñas (2007) assumed that self-mentions primarily include various forms of first-person pronouns, and excluded the third-person nouns and non-personal nouns mentioned in the classifications by Hyland (2002) and Liu (2011). Since Hyland’s (2001) classification of self-mentions has been applied by many researchers, his framework is adopted in this study. 

2.2 Discourse Functions of Self-mentions

A great deal of research has investigated the discourse functions of self-mentions in academic writing. Taking Ivanic’s (1998: 307) idea of a continuum of first-person pronouns as the starting point, Tang and John (1999) explored the possible writer roles behind first-person pronouns within academic papers, and classified them into six categories according to the degree of authorial presence as is shown in Table 1.

Chapter 3 Methodology ................................ 17

3.1 Research Questions ................................ 17

3.2 Web-based Corpus Platform: HZAU CQPweb ...................... 18

3.3 Selection of Self-mentions and Corresponding Collocations .......... 19

Chapter 4 Results and Discussion ................................ 24

4.1 Overall Use of First-person Pronouns in Two Corpora ................... 24

4.1.1 Use of First-person Plural Forms we, our, and us in Two Corpora ............................ 27

4.1.2 Use of First-person Singular Forms I, my, and me in Two Corpora ..................................... 29

Chapter 5 Conclusion .......................... 64

5.1 Major Findings ................................ 64

5.2 Implications and Originality .......................... 67

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