Authorial voice in addressing the readership

Abstract This paper examines authorial presence in late-Modern English scientific writing through a study of second-person pronouns in the chet (History texts) and cec he t (Chemistry texts) sub-corpora of the Coruña Corpus of English Scientific Writing. Although existing studies in this area have tended to focus on self-mentions ( Hyland 2001 , 2008 ; Flowerdew and Ho Wang 2015 ; Moskowich 2020 ; Suau-Jiménez 2020 ), I will argue that second-person pronominal forms can also reflect and underlin