Abstract A recent essay published in this journal by Swales (2019), calls for EAP genre analysts to pay more attention to (i) context and (ii) syntactic and phraseological patterns and uses. In this study, I address these two issues by taking a usage-based linguistics (UBL) approach to analyse how a molecular biologist, who writes in English as an additional language for research publication purposes, constructs representations of himself over a period of nine years through the use of self-mention. The analysis reveals that while the focal writer’s inventory of self-mention constructions becomes increasingly productive over time, his core frame of self-representation remains that of the ‘practical agent’. Closer analysis of these tokens of self-mention in the discourse context, however, reveals that over time he positions this practical agency in different ways thus realising a more or less self-promotional tenor. This case study approach highlights the historical embeddedness of the writer and the text and the ways in which voice features such as self-mention are contextually motivated.

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在生物学中寻找声音：二语学者讨论中自我提及的历时分析

摘要 Swales (2019) 在本期刊上发表的一篇近期文章呼吁 EAP 体裁分析师更多地关注 (i) 上下文和 (ii) 句法和短语模式和用法。在这项研究中，我通过采用基于用法的语言学 (UBL) 方法来解决这两个问题，分析分子生物学家如何将英语作为研究出版物的附加语言写作，在九年的时间里构建自己的表征通过使用自述。分析表明，虽然焦点作家的自我提及结构清单随着时间的推移变得越来越富有成效，但他的自我表现的核心框架仍然是“实际代理人”的核心框架。然而，在话语上下文中对这些自我提及的标记进行更仔细的分析，揭示了随着时间的推移，他以不同的方式定位这个实用的机构，从而实现了或多或少的自我推销的基调。这种案例研究方法突出了作者和文本的历史嵌入性，以及诸如自述之类的语音特征在上下文中受到激励的方式。