Disciplinary Identities : Individuality and Community in Academic - Discourse

Klappentext An engaging, advanced-level introduction to the emerging field of discourse studies of identity, with particular reference to academic contexts. 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. Zusammenfassung An engaging! advanced-level introduction to the emerging field of discourse studies of identity! with particular reference to academic contexts.

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• Authors: Carol A. Chapelle, Susan Hunston, Ken Hyland, Hyland Ken
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.03.2012
• EAN: 9780521197595
• ISBN: 978-0-521-19759-5
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 17 mm
• Series: Cambridge Applied Linguistics
• Subjects: Education and learning > Miscellaneous; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc