Self-Mention in Science Communication Associated with COVID-19 Research: A Comparison of Computer-Mediated Communicative Practices in the United Kingdom and the United States of America

Abstract The article introduces and discusses a corpus-assisted study that sets out to identify analyse how self-mention is employed in science communication associated with COVID-19 research disseminated the general public by leading universities United Kingdom (the UK) States of America USA). corpus comprised computer-mediated related pandemic on official websites Johns Hopkins University USA) College London UK). was examined quantitatively for presence self-mentions, such as I , my me mine myself we our ours ourselves us . results quantitative analysis indicated communicative practices discourse these scientific institutions exhibit similarities terms use self-mentions. However, contrast COVID-19-related communicated University, its forms were used more liberally London. These findings are further discussed from vantage point current Anglo-Saxon tradition academic writing English.