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Disciplinary identities : individuality and community in academic discourse / Ken Hyland.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Cambridge applied linguisticsPublication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.Description: xiii, 236 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780521197595
  • 9780521192217
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 410.1/88
Online resources: Summary: "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"--
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REGULAR University of Wollongong in Dubai Main Collection 410.188 HY DI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available T0044597

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"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"--

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