The modes of enunciation of the subject in scientific research papers of two Chilean mainstream journals of Psychology

Abstract

This study aims to describe the modes of inscription of the subject in the genre of scientific research article in Psychology. It explores how the logical subject of the utterance fits into the grammatical subject of the sentence. To do this, we conducted a discourse analysis of the conclusion or discussion of a sample of 104 articles published in two Chilean psychology journals between 2007 and 2011. The results indicate a predominance of eidetic nominalized and metadiscursive modes of enunciation, which speak of concepts and conceptual constructions, as if it were impersonal events without the presence of agents.