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Authorial Self-mention in Students' Abstracts in English: A Cross-cultural Study

Having in mind the standards of academic writing that change as tendencies in social sciences and humanities change, in the paper we analyze authorial self- mention (cf. Hyland, 2005) in abstracts from English major students’ MA theses. Our primary research framework relies on Hyland’s exponents of authorial self-mention. We analyze three corpora of students’ abstracts collected at the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad and the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Osijek, with the first non-native speaker sub-corpus of cca. 19, 000 words, the second of cca. 16, 000 words and the third written by native speakers at British and American universities of cca. 13, 000 words. The Antconc software is used to single out the concordances which are afterwards manually checked by each author for greater reliability. The results point to the cross-cultural differences that are reflected in the overt or covert authorial self-mention in the abstracts, as the result of different academic traditions which students come from.

academic writing, authorial self-mention, students’ MA theses, abstracts, personal pronouns

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