'Nowhere has anyone attempted ... In this article I aim to do just that' A corpus-based study of self-promotional I and we in academic writing across four disciplines

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 37, Issue 8 SPEC. ISS., 2005, Pages 1207-1231

  Harwood, Nigel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

'Author evacuation'; Academic writing; Corpus based linguistics; Pronouns; Self citation; Self promotion

Indexed keywords

EID: 18744383346     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2005.01.012     Document Type: Article

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