Differences in Using “I” and “We” in Book Reviews

ZHANG Man

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ZHANG Man. Differences in Using “I” and “We” in Book Reviews[J]. Journal of University of Science and Technology Beijing ( Social Sciences Edition), 2011, 27(2): 29-32.

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ZHANG Man. Differences in Using “I” and “We” in Book Reviews[J]. Journal of University of Science and Technology Beijing ( Social Sciences Edition), 2011, 27(2): 29-32.

ZHANG Man. Differences in Using “I” and “We” in Book Reviews[J]. Journal of University of Science and Technology Beijing ( Social Sciences Edition), 2011, 27(2): 29-32.

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ZHANG Man. Differences in Using “I” and “We” in Book Reviews[J]. Journal of University of Science and Technology Beijing ( Social Sciences Edition), 2011, 27(2): 29-32.

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Differences in Using “I” and “We” in Book Reviews

ZHANG Man

School of Foreign Languages Huazhong Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China

Received Date: 2010-11-20
Available Online: 2021-06-24

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Using a corpus of 30 English book reviews on linguistics, this paper studies the differences in using "I" and "we" in book reviews adopting both qualitative and quantitative methods.The results show that book review writers mostly use "I" to make evaluative arguments, whereas "we" is mostly used to objectively introduce the book.In a word, the authorial power realized by "I" is greater than "we".
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