discourse reflexivity; code glosses; research articles; English as a Lingua Franca

There is probably no doubt that English is the lingua franca of academia nowadays. Previous research has shown that one of the tendencies observed in academic ELF speech is enhanced explicitness (Mauranen, 2012). One of the common manifestations of explicitation is discourse reflexivity (Mauranen, 2017), making discourse organisation more visible and enhancing the clarity in the contexts where interlocutors do not share a common linguistic and/or cultural background. Drawing on these findings this paper aims to investigate reflexive phenomena in written academic ELF, namely in the SciELF corpus. The corpus consists of 150 research articles written by L2 users of English, which have not undergone professional proofreading by English native speakers. The paper focuses on one reflexive category, code glosses, which ?supply additional information by rephrasing, explaining or elaborating what has been said? (Hyland, 2005, p. 52). The findings are compared with Hyland?s analysis of code glosses in his corpora of published research articles (Hyland, 2005). The results should indicate whether the tendency to enhanced explicitness is only shown in spoken ELF, or whether it is an integral part of written academic ELF as well. The results also show various functions of code glosses in research articles and the most favoured expressions by ELF speakers.