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Writer Construction in English and German Popularized Academic Discourse: The Uses of "We" and "Wir"
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Baumgarten, Nicole – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2008
The present article investigates writer-reader interaction through the construction of writer and reader personae in English and German popular scientific writing by means of first person plural pronouns in subject position. Popular scientific writing only became firmly established as a German-language genre in the last quarter of the 20th century…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Linguistic Borrowing, Translation, Scientific Research