Using two corpora,book reviews in English on linguistics(book reviews) and literature reviews of English Ph.D.dissertations on linguistics(literature reviews),this article compares explicit register roles of writers in these two registers through analyzing the use of'I'.It is found that book review writers play the primary explicit register role of critic,and the secondary roles of researcher,organizer and reader to comment on the book.Literature review writers play the primary explicit register roles of researcher and organizer,and...
