Scientific Articles in English in Economics Journals. A Case Study for Romania

AbstractThe large number of Economic journals publishing in English in Romania prompted an investigation into the language circulatedto establish whether there are significant deviations from the language in articles by native English researchers. Two corpora were created and various linguistic features were compared: first reference pronouns, relative pronouns, passive forms, modal verbs, use of tense – aspect forms. With one exception, there were statistically significant differences between the two corpora. Further research can provide guidelines for more efficient reviewing of Romanian journals of Economics and improved didactics of academic prose, especially article writing, in terms of syllabi and teaching materials