Disciplinary identities
Subtitle: individuality and community in academic writing
By: Ken Hyland
Series: Cambridge applied linguistics
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780521192217; 9780521197595
Subjects: FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / English as a Second Language; Foreign speakers; Study and teaching; English language
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.