Asmeniniai vard iai mokslo kalboje. Personal pronouns in Lithuanian scientific discourse

The focus of the paper is the use of personal pronouns as a means of author stance expression in the Corpus Academicum Lithuanicum (about 9 million words) representing a variety of academic genres in five science areas (Biomedical sciences, Humanities, Physical sciences, Social sciences, Technological sciences). Pronouns in the subject position in Lithuanian may be omitted, as the person/number inflection of the verb already indicates the subject. Therefore, when the pronoun does occur in scientific discourse it might be interpreted as an emphasized expression of the author stance.In this study qualitative and quantitative approaches are employed to reveal distributional information and usage patterns of the personal pronouns I and we. The results of the study indicate cross-disciplinary differences in the use of personal pronouns in different science areas: researchers in the hard science fields tend to use personal pronouns to a much smaller extent than researchers in the soft fields. The study also showed marked differences in the distribution of exclusive and inclusive we. Scientists in the humanities and social sciences prefer the inclusive communal we, whereas researchers in biomedical, physical and technological sciences favour the exclusive we which primarily refers to the authors themselves or to the academic community. A case study of the personal pronoun you revealed its rare usage in scientific Lithuanian. This pronoun is usually employed to refer to the indefinite addressee. ------ Straipsnyje aptariama autoriaus pozicijos rai ka asmeniniais vard iais lietuvi mokslo kalbos tekstyne CorALit. Pasitelkus kiekybin ir kokybin analiz , tiriami asmenini vard i a ir mes bei j da niausi gramatini form vartosenos ypatumai biomedicinos, humanitarini , socialini , fizini ir technologini moksl srityse. Tyrimas parod , kad tiek vienaskaitin , tiek daugiskaitin autoriaus pozicijos rai ka asmeniniais vard iais tiksli j moksl tekstuose yra retesn nei humanitariniuose. Straipsnyje taip pat ap velgiami da niausi ekskliuzyvinio ir inkliuzyvinio mes tipai, j kiekybinis pasiskirstymas tarp skirting mokslo sri i . Humanitarai ir socialini moksl atstovai pirmenyb teikia inkliuzyviniam mes, o biomedicinos, fizikos ir technologini moksl srityse dominuoja ekskliuzyvinio mes vartosena. Neretai tiksli mes reik m yra sunku nustatyti, o dviprasmi ka mes interpretacija moksliniame tekste gali tur ti persvazin efekt . Tyrimu atkreipiamas d mesys ir palyginti ret akademiniuose tekstuose vard io jūs vartosen , nurodan i autoriaus ir skaityt