The translation of personal pronouns in French discourses into IndonesianTranslation is the transfer a message from source-language text an equivalent target-language text. Cultural differences between source language and target always leave marks on process. Language as part culture influences minds its speakers, especially translators. literary texts (as texts) their Indonesian translations (...

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...

Introduction The study of the use of first and second pronouns within academic discourse has focused primarily on their reference and discourse function. Previous studies by Rounds (1985, 1987a, 1987b) analyzed instructors’ use of we compared to other personal pronouns in mathematics classes at the University of Michigan, proposing multiple discourse functions and demonstrating a high frequency...

Since the introduction of the X-bar principles it is commonly assumed that prepositions are heads of PPs, in the same way as nouns and pronouns are heads of NPs. However, while this is well motivated for a large majority of the pronouns and the prepositions in many languages, there are also exceptions. More specifically, Van Eynde (1999) argues that the reduced or minor pronouns of Dutch—as opp...