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Analyzing Nouns and Verbs Marked With Self-Mention Suffixes in Graduate Theses

İbrahim ÜSTÜNALP
Elçin ESMER
Pages
437–455
Publication Date
2022-10-27
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The results suggest that writers make use of more nouns than verbs to code their authorial identity, even though verbs display a greater variety.

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Objective & Hypothesis:Self-mention is considered as the most powerful tool to project authorial presence in academic writing.
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Key Findings & Data:Data in this study is drawn from a corpus of master and doctorate theses written in the field of teaching Turkish as a foreign language.
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Conclusion & Impact:The results suggest that writers make use of more nouns than verbs to code their authorial identity, even though verbs display a greater variety.
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⚙️Variables:Self-mention · Authorial presence · Metadiscourse

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Self-mention is considered as the most powerful tool to project authorial presence in academic writing. Although some research has been done on self-mention, there is still little investigated in Turkish academic writers’ self-mention use. Descriptive in nature, the study aims to discover the lexical items marked with first person pronoun suffixes, with a focus on nouns and verbs. Data in this study is drawn from a corpus of master and doctorate theses written in the field of teaching Turkish as a foreign language. The results suggest that writers make use of more nouns than verbs to code their authorial identity, even though verbs display a greater variety. While nouns marked with a self-mention suffix dominate verbs in abstract, introduction, methodology and discussion, conclusion and suggestion chapters, verbs suffixed by a self-mention stand out in literature and results chapters. The study ends with a discussion of top frequent noun and verbs.

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ÜSTÜNALP, İ., ESMER, E. (2022). Analyzing Nouns and Verbs Marked With Self-Mention Suffixes in Graduate Theses. Dil Eğitimi ve Araştırmaları Dergisi, Cilt: 8 - Sayı: 2, 437–455. https://ajindex.com/articles/657238

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