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Zusatztext The high technical quality of the book! in good Bloombsury tradition ... symbolises the importance of the research fields outlined here ... The Essential Hyland is a handbook which covers highly relevant issues of academic writing and which will certainly enjoy continuous success. Informationen zum Autor Ken Hyland is Professor of Applied Linguistics in Education at the University of East Anglia, UK.Ken Hyland's career in applied linguistics has advanced knowledge and debate on academic writing over the course of dozens of books and hundreds of articles. This is a collection of the most important chapters he has authored, together with reflective comment and guest contributions from leading linguists. Zusammenfassung Writing in the academy has assumed huge importance in recent years as countless students and academics around the world must now gain fluency in the conventions of academic writing in English to understand their disciplines, to establish their careers or to successfully navigate their learning. Professor Ken Hyland has been a contributor to the literature on this topic for over 20 years, with 26 books and over 200 chapters and articles. This work has had considerable influence in shaping the direction of the field and generating papers and PhD theses from researchers around the world. This is a topic which has found its time, as a central concept in applied linguistics, sociology of science, library studies, bibliometrics, and so on.This book brings together Ken Hyland's most influential and cited papers. These are organised thematically to provide both an introduction to the study of academic discourse and an overview of his contribution to the understanding of how academics construct themselves, their disciplines and knowledge through written texts. Several academic celebrities from the field provide a brief commentary on the papers and the book includes an overall reflection by the author on the impact of the papers and the direction of the field together with linear notes on the specific papers in each section. The volume not only includes some of Hyland's best chapters and journal articles but the thoughts of disciplinary luminaries on both the ideas in the book and the general state and direction of the field. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Part 1 Writing, participation and identity Introduction, Professor John Swales of University of Michigan, USAReflective Commentary, Ken Hyland1. Writing in the university: education, knowledge and reputation. Language Teaching. 46 (1) 53-70. (2013). 2. Discipline: proximity and positioning. Chapter 2 of Disciplinary Identities. Cambridge University Press. pp 22-43. (2012)3. Participation: community and expertise. Chapter 5 of Academic Publishing. Oxford University Press. pp 91-112. (2015)4. Community and individuality: performing identity in Applied Linguistics. Written Communication. 27 (2): 159-188. (2010). Part 2 Interaction, stance and metadiscourse Reflective Commentary, Ken Hyland5. Disciplinary cultures, texts and interactions. chapter 1 of Disciplinary discourses: social interaction in academic writing. University of Michigan Press. pp 1-19 (2004). 6. Stance and engagement: a model of interaction in academic discourse. Discourse Studies. 7 (2): 173-191. (2005).7. Metadiscourse in academic writing: A reappraisal. Applied Linguistics. 25 (2): 156-177 (With Polly Tse) (2004).8. Change of attitude? A diachronic study of stance. Written Communication. 33(3) p. 251-274 (2016) Section 3 - Interactions in peripheral genres Introduction, Professor Vijay Bhatia, City University of Hong Kong, SAR ChinaReflective Commentary, Ken Hyland9. Constructing proximity: relating to readers in popular and professional science. Journal of English for Academic Purposes. 9 (2): 116-127. (2010). 10. Dissertation acknowledgments: The anatomy of a Cinderella genre. ...
