Disciplinary Identities : Individuality and Community in Academic Discourse Paperback / softback
by Ken Hyland
Part of the Cambridge Applied Linguistics series
Paperback / softback
Description
This book uses findings from corpus research to present insights into the relationship between author identity and disciplinarity in academic discourse. Disciplinary Identities uses findings from corpus research to present fascinating insights into the relationship between author identity and disciplinarity in academic writing.
Ken Hyland draws on a number of sources to explore how authors convey aspects of their identities within the constraints placed upon them by their disciplines' rhetorical conventions.
He promotes corpus methods as important tools in identity research, demonstrating the effectiveness of keyword and collocation analysis in highlighting both the norms of a particular genre and an author's idiosyncratic choices. Also available separately as a hardback.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:252 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:22/03/2012
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- ISBN:9780521197595
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:252 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:22/03/2012
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521197595
