Metadiscursive Nouns - Interaction and Persuasion in Disciplinary Writing

Based on a 1.7-million-word corpus of 160 research articles from both soft and hard knowledge fields, this book sets out to explore how a particular type of noun, namely, metadiscursive nouns are rhetorically used to mediate writer-reader interaction in disciplinary writing.

List of contents

Preface, 1 Introduction, 2 Review of Related Concepts, 3 Metadiscursive Nouns, 4 Methodology, 5 Overall results: frequency, distribution and wordlist, 6 Interactive function: anaphoric and cataphoric cohesion, 7 Interactional function: stance and engagement, 8 Conclusion

About the author

Feng (Kevin) Jiang is Kuang Yaming Distinguished Professor of applied linguistics at Jilin University, China. He gained his PhD under Professor Ken Hyland at the Univerity of Hong Kong and has been researching and teaching in academic writing, corpus analysis and disciplinary discourse. His publications have appeared in most major applied linguistics journals.

Summary

Based on a 1.7-million-word corpus of 160 research articles from both soft and hard knowledge fields, this book sets out to explore how a particular type of noun, namely, metadiscursive nouns are rhetorically used to mediate writer-reader interaction in disciplinary writing.

Product details

• Authors: Feng (Kevin) Jiang, Feng (Kevin) (School of Foreign Language Ed Jiang
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.01.2024
• EAN: 9781032270050
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3227005-0
• No. of pages: 220
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 240 mm x 20 mm
• Series: China Perspectives; Print on Demand
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc