ISBN:
0521197597
,
0521192218
,
9783125345492
,
9780521197595
,
9780521192217
Language:
English
Pages:
XIII, 236 S.
,
23 cm
Series Statement:
Cambridge applied linguistics series
DDC:
420.141
Keywords:
English language Study and teaching
;
Foreign speakers
;
English language
;
Discourse analysis
;
Identity (Psychology)
;
Academic writing
;
Englisch
;
Diskursanalyse
;
Wissenschaft
;
Schreiben
;
Identität
;
Korpus
;
Englisch
;
Diskursanalyse
;
Wissenschaft
;
Schreiben
;
Identität
;
Korpus
Abstract:
"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"--
Abstract:
"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"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-229) and indexes
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