Academic Discourse - English In A Global Context

Zusatztext Reviewed in The Year's Work in English Studies, Volume 90 Informationen zum Autor Ken Hyland is Professor of Applied Linguistics in Education at the University of East Anglia, UK. Vorwort An accessible, genre-based introduction to a growing area of linguistics - Academic Discourse. By highlighting its nature and importance to the modern world this is an essential read for students. Zusammenfassung Shows the nature and importance of academic discourses in the modern world. This book describes the conventions of spoken and written academic discourse and the ways these construct both knowledge and disciplinary communities. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Introduction 1: Points of Departure 2: Approaches 3: Academic Communities 4: Research Discourses 5: Instructional Discourses 6: Student Discourses 7: Popular Discourses 8: Wider Worlds References Index

Product details

• Authors: Ken Hyland
• Assisted by: Ken Hyland (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2009
• EAN: 9780826498038
• ISBN: 978-0-8264-9803-8
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Continuum Discourse; Continuum Discourse
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc