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- Title
Markers of identification in Indigenous academic writing: A case study of genre innovation.
- Authors
Makmillen, Shurli; Riedlinger, Michelle
- Abstract
This study contributes to research into genre innovation and scholarship exploring how Indigenous epistemes are disrupting dominant discourses of the academy. Using a case study approach, we investigated 31 research articles produced by Mäori scholars and published in the journal AlterNative between 2006 and 2018. We looked for linguistic features associated with self-positioning and self-identification. We found heightened ambiguous uses of "we"; a prevalence of verbs associated with personal (as opposed to discursive) uses of "I/we"; personal storytelling; and a privileging of Elders' contributions to the existing state of knowledge. We argue these features reflect and reinforce Indigenous scholars' social relations with particular communities of practice within and outside of the academy. They are also in keeping with Indigenous knowledge-making practices, protocols, and languages, and signal sites of negotiation and innovation in the research article. We present the implications for rhetorical genre studies and for teaching academic genres.
- Subjects
EDUCATION of indigenous peoples; ACADEMIC discourse; LINGUISTICS; STORYTELLING; RHETORIC
- Publication
Text & Talk, 2021, Vol 41, Issue 2, p165
- ISSN
1860-7330
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/text-2020-2073