Shirley Carter-Thomas, Angela Chambers. From text to corpus : a contrastive analysis of first person pronouns in economics article introductions in English and French. Alex Boulton; Shirley Carter-Thomas; Elizabeth Rowley-Jolivet. Corpus-informed research and learning in ESP : issues and applications, 52, John Ben­jamins, pp.15-​​44, 2012, Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 978-90-272-0357-1. ⟨10.1075/scl.52.02car⟩.

This contrastive study focuses on the functions of first person subject pronouns in economics article introductions in French and English. It combines a qualitative analysis of the way the pronouns are used within a typical CARS (Create a Research Space) -type introduction (Swales 1990, 2004) with a more quantitative concordance-based analysis of the varying authorial roles played by the pronouns and their distribution within the different rhetorical moves of the introductions. The text-to-corpus approach adopted gives rise to a number of recommendations concerning the combinations of discourse analysis and corpus investigation for teaching purposes