Authorship, place and voice in research: A transitivity analysis of selected African and Western journals.
The concept of voice has become crucial within academic discourse, where texts constitute sites for enacting identity. In spite of the recognition that expressing authorial voice in writing constitutes a salient feature of academic writing, various studies have pointed out that there appears to be a...
| Publicado en: | Legon Journal of the Humanities Vol. 34; no. 2; pp. 24 - 58 |
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2023
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