Authorial Voice in Research Articles on Applied Linguistic Written by Iranian and International Authors

The concept of authorial voice has been discussed by many scholars in the field of applied linguistics. This study was an attempt to explore voice from an appraisal theory perspective. To this end, Iranian and Iinternational author’s usage of authorial voice in their published research articles was investigated. A corpus of 30 research papers (15 Iranian and 15 International research articles) written in English language in the field of applied linguistics was gathered. The thematic analysis of authorial voice was conducted by using Swale’s move structure analysis (1990) as well as Martin and White’s appraisal model (2005). The data were analyzed mostly quantitatively. For the qualitative part some excerpts have been chosen from the texts to find a meaningful pattern. The findings revealed that the tendency of Iranian and International writers for some linguistic resources was to some extent the same that is they followed a similar pattern of voice. The two groups showed similarity when using Affect, Judgment and Appreciation. This study remarkably introduces a new form of studying authorial voice in different sections of the articles based on Swales’ move structure analysis (1990) and Martin and white’s appraisal model. This contributes to new information about authorial voice in different sections of articles in the field of applied linguistics, and gives unique insights about the assessment and teaching of voice in ELT and applied linguistic disciplines.