人称代词在中外医学作者撰写的英文医学科研论文前言部分中的使用

application of personal pronouns in introduction section of english medical research articles

【abstract】 aim: to investigate and contrast the personal pronouns used in introduction sections of english medical research articles written by chinese medical writers (cmws) and native english speaking medical writers (nmws). methods: the personal pronouns used in 50 introduction sections written by cmws and 20 ones by nmws were investigated and compared using esp genre analysis and the contrastive approach. results: the first personal pronouns were found mainly used in their plural forms in subjective cases and more favorably used in the introduction sections written by nmws (85%) than those by cmws (54%) (p