In the ESSE conference, Jolanta‘s talk focused on personal pronoun use as a way to express stance and identity in research writing. The study was based on research articles written by British and Lithuanian literary scholars in their native languages, as well as on literature BA papers written in English by Lithuanian students majoring in English Philology at Vilnius University. These findings of the study show that there are substantial differences in personal pronoun use in research writing and that these differences may be resulting from cultural factors, genre constraints and the level of expertise of the writer.
