Disciplinary Discourses : Social Interactions in Academic Writing /
"In Disciplinary Discourses: Social Interactions in Academic Writing, Ken Hyland examines the relationships between the cultures of academic communities and their unique discourses. Drawing on discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, and the voices of professional insiders, Ken Hyland explores h...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
2004.
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Edición: | Michigan classics ed. |
Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Disciplinary cultures, texts and interactions
- The importance of academic writing
- The social creation of knowledge
- Disciplinary cultures
- Texts as social interaction
- Approaches to academic interactions
- Academic attribution: interaction through citation
- Citation and intertextuality: some preliminaries
- Citation signals
- An overview of academic citation
- Hard v soft knowledge and community practices
- Contextualisation and the construction of knowledge
- Agency and epistemology in citations
- Ownership and membership in disciplinarity
- Ethos and evaluation: the use of reporting verbs
- Praise and criticism: interactions in book reviews
- The book review genre
- Evaluation in reviews
- Dimensions of praise and criticism
- Disciplinary differences in evaluations
- Structural patterns of praise and criticism
- Mitigation of evaluative acts
- Speaking as an insider: promotion and credibility in abstracts
- Texts, informants and methods
- A move-structure classification of abstracts
- Move-structure and rhetorical persuasion
- Disciplinary differences in abstract structures
- Claiming significance in abstracts
- Claiming insider credibility
- Evolving patterns: 1980-1997
- Priority and prudence: the scientific letter
- The letter genre
- What are hedges and boosters?
- Forms and frequencies of hedges and boosters
- Circumspection and uncertainty: hedging in knowledge-making
- Priority and solidarity: boosters in significance negotiation
- Putting it together: hedges and boosters in letters.