The Influence of Genre Constraints on Author Representation in Medical Research Articles. The French Indefinite Pronoun On in IMRAD Research Articles

摘要: Scientific discourse is characterized by highly normative and strict genre constraints on language use, both the macro (text) micro (word) level. The purpose of this article to study distribution French indefinite pronoun its interpretative values across sections French-language medical articles (KIAP corpus) in IMRAD format (Introduction, Methods, Results Discussion). main hypothesis that structure entails a specific level textual structures (author roles, argumentation, rhetorical functions), reflected linguistic markers, such as on. Previous studies based more limited material (Gjesdal, 2008) indicate variation seems be influenced format, and, furthermore, different seem correspond author roles. Particular emphasis will put influence linear sequencing text imposed roles speech acts text.