Verbs as Rhetorical Elements for Expressing Authorial Presence in Slovenian and Croatian Research Abstracts
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https://doi.org/10.57589/srl.v73i2.4246Keywords:
academic discourse, scientific paper abstracts, rhetorical strategies, self-mentionsAbstract
One of the main goals of a scientific paper is to establish communication with the reader, which is achieved through various rhetorical strategies, such as authorial presence in the text. This means that the author appears in the text explicitly or implicitly by means of self-reference, which – at least in Slavic languages – also includes verbs. This article presents the use of verbs as rhetorical elements to express authorial presence in Slovenian and Croatian research abstracts, focusing on the use of personal and impersonal verb forms. Although the two languages are closely related and come from a similar cultural tradition, the results of the study show the use of different strategies in scientific writing, which could indicate cultural specificities in the two languages.
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