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This book offers a coherent argument for changes in published academic writing over the past 50 years. This volume is essential reading for students and researchers of EAP/ESP and Applied Linguistics and will also be of significant interest to academics and students looking to have their work published.
Table des matières
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part One: Academic Discourse and rhetorical change
1 Publish and prosper: the changing face of academic life
2 Understanding language change: corpora, contexts and rhetoric
Part Two: Changes in argument patterns
3 A multidimensional analysis of change
4 Changes in coherence and cohesion: let’s look at this
5 Points of reference: changing patterns of citation.
6 Changes in self-citation: cumulative inquiry or self-promotion
7 Bundling up: changes in multiword combinations
Part Three: Changes in stance and engagement
8 Evidentiality, affect and presence: changing patterns of stance.
9 Changes in a stance marker: Evaluative that
10 Representing readers: changes in engagement.
11 Changes in the rhetorical self: a profile of we
12 Is academic writing becoming more informal?
Part Four: Epilogue
13 Pulling it all together
References
Index
A propos de l'auteur
Ken Hyland is Professor of Applied Linguistics in Education in the Faculty of Education and Lifelong Learning at the University of East Anglia, UK.
Feng (Kevin) Jiang is Kuang Yaming Distinguished Professor in the School of Foreign Language Education at Jilin University, China.
Résumé
This book offers a coherent argument for changes in published academic writing over the past 50 years. This volume is essential reading for students and researchers of EAP/ESP and Applied Linguistics and will also be of significant interest to academics and students looking to have their work published.
