At the discourse level, personal pronouns have been acknowledged as one of the most important features used to express writer visibility – involvement of the author in the text. Studies have shown that writer visibility depends on discourse type, cultural conventions, writer’s L1, etc. (Petch-Tyson 1998; Ädel 2001; Rodríguez, Vázquez and Guzmán 2011; Zolotova 2014). This paper investigates the discourse function of personal pronouns in argumentative writing in the Croatian language, a Slavic pro-drop language. For the purpose of this paper argumentative essays written by Croatian native speakers (N=100) are analysed for the frequencies of 1st and 2nd person personal pronouns and their discourse functions. The results confirmed low frequency of 1st and 2nd person personal pronouns in the corpus, with the dominance of the 1st person singular personal pronoun I. The qualitative analysis shows that the pronoun I is most frequently used to express discourse functions of writer’s stance and writer’s experience, whereas all of the other pronouns were used mostly to express more general claims. The obtained results gave more insight into the use of personal pronouns in a pro-drop language and confirm cultural and linguistic influences on argumentative writing in the first language.

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斯拉夫语中人称代词的话语功能：来自克罗地亚语 L1 议论文的证据

在语篇层面，人称代词已被公认为用于表达作者可见性的最重要特征之一——作者对文本的参与。研究表明，作家的知名度取决于话语类型、文化习俗、作家的母语等（Petch-Tyson 1998；Ädel 2001；Rodríguez、Vázquez 和 Guzmán 2011；Zolotova 2014）。本文研究人称代词在克罗地亚语议论文中的话语功能，克罗地亚语是一种斯拉夫语 pro-drop 语言。出于本文的目的，分析了以克罗地亚语为母语的人 (N=100) 撰写的议论文中第一人称和第二人称代词的出现频率及其话语功能。结果证实了语料库中第一人称和第二人称代词的低频率，我. 定性分析表明代词我最常用于表达作家立场和作家经历的话语功能，而所有其他代词主要用于表达更一般的主张。获得的结果让我们更深入地了解人称代词在 pro-drop 语言中的使用，并证实了文化和语言对第一语言议论文写作的影响。