Self-referential And Identity Construction In Scientific Texts By German And Chinese Students-A Study Of 10 Scientific Texts By German Students And 10 By Chinese Students

Traditionally,scholar interpretation of academic composition may be considered as objective,identity may be latent in the academic discourses to guarantee objectivity.Nevertheless,many studies in recent years have shown that there is an interactive relationship between academic writing and authorship.The author's identity exists in the relationship with the reader and is achieved through interpersonal discourse.The author uses self-referential to construct the author's identity in order to obtain the recognition of the discourse community.Research on self-referential and authorship construction first appeared in English academic writing.Tang,John and Hyland probe the implicit characteristics of auctorial identity based on the corpus research.Domestic relevant researches presented in recent years,scholars like Shiyi Tang,Fang Xu,Xinren Chen They explored theories of English academic research on the self-referral and authorship construction of Chinese academic writers,and put forward their own opinions and viewpoints.In Germany,scholars like Steinhoff conducted many in-depth studies on the authorship of German academic writing.However,very little research has been done on the construction of identity in academic writing between China and Germany.The specific research question for this thesis is:Compared to German native-speaking students,when Chinese students construct their authorship in the master's thesis through self-referential first-person pronouns:1)What are the overall characteristics?2)How did they use the first person pronoun to construct the author's identity?3)What are the reasons for this difference in identity construction?In order to answer these questions,the thesis statistically classifies and integrates the self-referential pronouns(ich,wir and man)in master's thesis of ten Chinese students and ten German students.First,this study conducts a machine search of ich,wir,and man used in the sample for self-referral.Subsequently,the results of the machine search were manually annotated one by one,and some of the interference items that were not within the scope of this paper were eliminated,thus ensuring the accuracy and scientificity of the research.After summarization and integration,this thesis conducts a detailed categorization of author identity characteristics in master dissertation texts implied by 10 Chinese students and 10 German students,and conducts a detailed study of the common features and differences among them.Through the study,it is found that both Chinese students and German students show relatively implicit identities and low participation in using self-reference to construct authorship.In most cases,Chinese students and German students are more inclined to use "Man" or some other alternative forms to avoid the use of "Ich" and"Wir" in the thesis.The frequent use of "Ich" and "Wir" in the corpus is significantly lower than that of "Man".In addition,the study also found that,compared with German students,the use of "Ich" in Chinese students' papers is comparatively higher,while the use of "Wir" and "Man" is not significantly different.This shows that,to a certain extent,Chinese students have higher initiation in using self-reference to construct authorship than German students.In summary,the research topic and the research conclusion in this thesis have all filled the existing research gaps in the field of Sino-German comparison in a certain extent.In this sense,the research of this study is helpful in deeply understanding the author's allegations and identity construction in Chinese and German papers,promotes academic exchanges between China and Germany,and plays a practical significance in the intercultural researches both in China and Germany.