Self-Mention in Science Communication Associated with COVID-19 Research: A Comparison of Computer-Mediated Communicative Practices in the United Kingdom and the United States of America

IF 0.1 0 LITERARY THEORY & CRITICISM

American, British and Canadian Studies Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI:10.2478/abcsj-2021-0008

Oleksandr (Alexander) Kapranov

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Abstract

Abstract The article introduces and discusses a corpus-assisted study that sets out to identify and analyse how self-mention is employed in science communication associated with COVID-19 research disseminated to the general public by leading universities in the United Kingdom (the UK) and the United States of America (the USA). The corpus of the study is comprised of computer-mediated communication related to the COVID-19 pandemic on the official websites of Johns Hopkins University (the USA) and University College London (the UK). The corpus was examined quantitatively for the presence of self-mentions, such as I, my, me, mine, myself, and we, our, ours, ourselves, and us. The results of the quantitative analysis indicated that computer-mediated communicative practices associated with COVID-19 discourse and communication by these scientific institutions exhibit similarities in terms of the use of self-mentions. However, in contrast to COVID-19-related discourse communicated by Johns Hopkins University, the self-mention I and its forms were used more liberally in COVID-19-related discourse and communication disseminated by University College London. These findings are further discussed in the article from the vantage point of the current Anglo-Saxon tradition of academic writing in English.

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与COVID-19研究相关的科学传播中的自我提及:英国和美利坚合众国计算机媒介传播实践的比较

摘要:本文介绍并讨论了一项语料库辅助研究，旨在识别和分析英国(UK)和美利坚合众国(USA)的顶尖大学如何在与COVID-19研究相关的科学传播中使用自我提及。本研究的语料库由美国约翰霍普金斯大学和英国伦敦大学学院官方网站上与新冠肺炎大流行相关的计算机媒介传播组成。语料库被定量地检查自我提及的存在，如我，我的，我的，我自己，我们，我们的，我们自己，和我们。定量分析结果表明，与COVID-19话语相关的计算机媒介传播实践和这些科研机构的传播在使用自我提及方面表现出相似性。然而，与约翰霍普金斯大学传播的新冠肺炎相关话语相比，伦敦大学学院传播的新冠肺炎相关话语和传播中，自我提及I及其形式的使用更为自由。本文从当前盎格鲁-撒克逊英语学术写作传统的角度进一步讨论了这些发现。

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American, British and Canadian Studies Arts and Humanities-Literature and Literary Theory

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0.20

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10 weeks

期刊介绍： Founded in 1999, American, British and Canadian Studies, the journal of the Academic Anglophone Society of Romania, is currently published by Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu. Re-launched in refashioned, biannual format, American, British and Canadian Studies is an international, peer-reviewed journal that sets out to explore disciplinary developments in Anglophone Studies in the changing environment forged by the intersections of culture, technology and electronic information. Our primary goal is to bring together in productive dialogue scholars conducting advanced research in the theoretical humanities. As well as offering innovative approaches to influential crosscurrents in contemporary thinking, the journal seeks to contribute fresh angles to the academic subject of English and promote shape-changing research across conventional boundaries. By virtue of its dynamic and varied profile and of the intercultural dialogue that it caters for, ABC Studies aims to fill a gap in the Romanian academic arena, and function as the first publication to approach Anglophone studies in a multi-disciplinary perspective. Within the proposed range of diversity, our major scope is to provide close examinations and lucid analyses of the role and future of the academic institutions at the cutting edge of high-tech. With this end in view, we especially invite contributions in the fields of Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies, Postcolonial Theory, Area Studies, Cultural Anthropology, Language and Linguistics, Multimedia and Digital Arts, Translation Studies and related subjects. With its wide subject range, American, British and Canadian Studies aims to become one of the academic community’s premium scholarly resources.