Within information science, neutrality and objectivity have been standard design goals for knowledge organization schemes; designers have seen themselves as compilers, rather than as authors or creators. The organization of resources in the Prelinger Library in San Francisco, however, shows a distinct authorial voice, or unique sense of expression and vision. This voice, in turn, works as a per...

The current study aimed to investigate that how an eminent Pakistani writer Hamidullah Khan Burki constructed his attitudinal positioning shaped authorial voice in journalistic discourse. focused on two aspects: explore the patterns Burki’s use of resources through lexical choices; and appraised categories shape positioning. research is a case study, exploratory nature, which used QUAL-Quan mod...

The question of minimal sample size is one of the most important issues in stylometry and nontraditional authorship attribution. In the last decade or so, a few studies concerning different aspects of scalability in stylometry have been published (Zhao and Zobel, 2005; Hirst and Feiguina, 2007; Stamatatos, 2008; Koppel et al., 2009; Mikros, 2009; Luyckx and Daelemans, 2011), but the question ha...

Successful scientific writers make use of various lexico-grammatical features to assert their authorial voice in ways that target audience finds most convincing. While many studies have focused on the stance markers writing, very few reported construction Malaysian writers. To address this, this paper reports a three-way comparative study stance-taking made by writers, international counterpart...

research article (ra) genre has been a significant area of research in academic writing over past decades. however, authors’ identity in ras has not received much attention, especially in soft sciences like applied linguistics. this paper reports a corpus analysis of iranian writers’ authorial presence markers in ras in the field of applied linguistics. the corpus comprised 30 ras (200,000 word...