Researcher positionality statements in applied linguistics

IF 3.9 1区文学 Q1 LINGUISTICS

Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2026-09-15 DOI:10.1093/applin/amag075

Amber N Warren,Bedrettin Yazan

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Abstract

Abstract This study investigates how reflexive positionality is enacted in researcher positionality statements (RPSs) across twenty-two applied linguistics (AL) and language education journals (all SSCI Q1), focusing on how researchers articulate their positionality in relation to other dimensions of reflexivity, including disciplinary knowledge, relationships with research participants, methodological choices, and textual representation. Guided by methodological scholarship on self-reflexivity, we analyze 387 empirical articles to examine how reflexivity is rhetorically constructed and interrelated in RPSs, describing overall trends and patterns of reflexive positioning. Based on these patterns, we present our findings as a continuum of reflexive enactment, illustrating variation in the depth, relationality, and dynamism with which positionality is taken up in published research. We discuss that approaching researcher positionality through the lens of enactment shifts attention away from whether reflexivity is present and toward how reflexive work is made visible within AL research. Therefore, RPSs are not simply sites of disclosure, but rhetorical and relational spaces in which scholars negotiate disciplinary norms, ethical commitments, and understandings of knowledge production.

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应用语言学中的研究者位置陈述

摘要：本研究探讨了22种应用语言学和语言教育期刊（均为SSCI第1季）的研究者位置性陈述（RPSs）中反思性是如何形成的，重点研究了研究者如何在反思性的其他维度（包括学科知识、与研究参与者的关系、方法选择和文本表征）中表达他们的位置性。在自我反身性方法论研究的指导下，我们分析了387篇实证文章，研究了RPSs中反身性是如何在修辞上构建和相互关联的，描述了反身定位的总体趋势和模式。基于这些模式，我们将我们的研究结果作为反身性制定的连续体，说明了发表的研究中所采用的位置性在深度、相关性和动态性方面的变化。我们讨论了通过制定的视角来接近研究者的位置性，将注意力从是否存在反身性转移到如何在人工智能研究中使反身性工作可见。因此，RPSs不仅仅是披露信息的场所，而且是学者们就学科规范、伦理承诺和对知识生产的理解进行协商的修辞和关系空间。

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Applied Linguistics LINGUISTICS-

CiteScore

7.60

自引率

8.30%

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期刊介绍： Applied Linguistics publishes research into language with relevance to real-world problems. The journal is keen to help make connections between fields, theories, research methods, and scholarly discourses, and welcomes contributions which critically reflect on current practices in applied linguistic research. It promotes scholarly and scientific discussion of issues that unite or divide scholars in applied linguistics. It is less interested in the ad hoc solution of particular problems and more interested in the handling of problems in a principled way by reference to theoretical studies.