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Writer Identity Construction Revisited: Stance, Voice, Self, and Identity in Academic Written Discourse

  • Ying Li

    Ying Li is a lecturer at the English Department of Wuhan University. Her research efforts have focused on discourse analysis, ESP, and EAP.

    and Liming Deng

    Liming Deng (the corresponding author) is a professor at the English Department of Wuhan University. Her main research efforts have focused on discourse studies, second language writing, and EAP.

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Abstract

Recent research on academic discourse has revealed the intersection of writing and writer identity construction. However, some terms that are being used in writer identity study are sometimes not only interchangeably used without making an explicit connection between them but also used in a way that may cause misunderstanding. The paper is intended to tease out four key terms, namely, stance, voice, self, and identity so that the respective role that each plays in academic written discourse can be differentiated on the one hand, and their interrelationship can be clarified on the other. It is hoped that such a panoramic picture can offer some pedagogical implications for academic writing teaching and research and provide some insights into the research on writer identity construction in academic written discourse as well.


1 This article is supported by China National Social Sciences Grant entitled “A Genre-based Study of the Dynamic Interdiscursive System in Chinese and English Professional Discourse” (NO. 17BYY033)


About the authors

Ying Li

Ying Li is a lecturer at the English Department of Wuhan University. Her research efforts have focused on discourse analysis, ESP, and EAP.

Liming Deng

Liming Deng (the corresponding author) is a professor at the English Department of Wuhan University. Her main research efforts have focused on discourse studies, second language writing, and EAP.

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Published Online: 2019-12-10
Published in Print: 2019-09-25

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