摘要
For years, personal and social voices have been the issue of discussion on voice construction in written discourse(e.g., Elbow, 1999;Flowerdew, 2011;Hyland, 2002, 2010 a, 2012 b;Mauranen, 2013;Ramanathan & Atkinson, 1999;Tardy, 2005). However, there is a lack of an integrated examination of the dimensions which determine voice construction in writing from personal and social perspectives. This article re-examines the issue of voice construction through a critical review of previous literature on identity in written discourse. It is argued that there are five major dimensions for the construction of voice in written discourse. How writers appropriate their voice according to such five dimensions as genre, transition, culture, discipline and audience will be discussed. This paper lends further support to the view that voice in written discourse is both personal and social. As it is known, good writing expresses both personal and social voices. However, based on the dominant dimension(s), voice construction should be adjusted. Sometimes personal voice is boldly expressed;sometimes social voice is;and some other times the boundary between the two is unnoticeable. The study provides an integrated framework as well as pedagogical implications for the teaching of academic writing within L1 and L2 contexts.
近几十年来,声音一直是学术语篇讨论的议题。然而,对于影响作者个人或社会声音构建的维度尚缺乏统一的审视。本文通过对相关文献进行批判性回顾,提出声音构建的五个主要维度,即语体、过渡、文化、学科以及读者。该研究进一步佐证了声音既是个人的也是社会的,同时研究提出了综合性分析框架并为学术写作教学提供了启示。
基金
supported by the National Social Science Fund of China entitled “A Genre-Based Study of the Dynamic Interdiscursive System in Chinese and English Professional Discourse”(17BYY033)
