Humanities & Social Sciences 8 (2015 8) 1625-1634 ~ ~ ~ УДК 81’11 Verbalization of the Writer in Academic Prose Olga A. Krapivkina* Irkutsk National Research Technical University 83 Lermontov Str., Irkutsk, 664074, Russia Received 07.10.2014, received in revised form 19.02.2015, accepted 03.03.2015 The paper presents an empirical analysis of the tools writers use to verbalize their stances in academic discourse based on a corpus of 40 research articles in the fi elds of Humanities. <...> The paper distinguishes between three stances of writers in academic discourse which are verbalized with a number of linguistic tools: the researcher, the opinion holder, and the representative. <...> The paper also aims to examine the cultural conditions as well as the role of writer’s research experience in markers’ preferences. <...> The paper describes a study in which frequency and usage of linguistic tools marking writer’s stances were compared between papers written in English and in Russian. <...> It was found that Russian authors preferred fi rst-person plural pronouns, the third person and agentless passives while English language writers used both fi rst-person singular and plural, agentless constructions, third person with human reference, and personifi ed point of view constructions. <...> It is representing the writer’s stances, expressing the writer’s opinion, constructing solidarity with both readers and the academic community, and organizing the discourse. <...> These functions are performed by using different markers of the writer in discourse. <...> Among these markers, one could mention fi rst person pronouns, third person with human reference (author, researcher, etc.), agentless and personifi ed point of view constructions. <...> All rights reserved * Corresponding author E-mail address: olgak78@mail.ru # 1625 # going to write academic works and should be able to position themselves appropriately in relation to their work following the conventions of the academic community. <...> It should be noted that standards for academic writing disagree about the usage of fi rst person singular pronouns in academic prose. <...> Some argue that personal pronouns distract from what should be objective and scientifi cally valid, or even that personal statements do not sound “scientifi c”. <...> Personal pronouns could play a distracting <...>