Academic Discourse Across Disciplines

Academic Discourse Across Disciplines
Author: Ken Hyland,Marina Bondi
Publsiher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2006
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3039111833

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This volume reflects the emerging interest in cross-disciplinary variation in both spoken and written academic English, exploring the conventions and modes of persuasion characteristic of different disciplines and which help define academic inquiry. This collection brings together chapters by applied linguists and EAP practitioners from seven different countries. The authors draw on various specialised spoken and written corpora to illustrate the notion of variation and to explore the concept of discipline and the different methodologies they use to investigate these corpora. The book also seeks to make explicit the valuable links that can be made between research into academic speech and writing as text, as process, and as social practice.

Language Across Disciplines

Language Across Disciplines
Author: Marc Silver
Publsiher: Universal-Publishers
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2006
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781599424026

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Academic discourse is the principle means by which knowledge is constituted in the world today and English is the globalized language in and through which such knowledge most often gets constructed and transmitted. Be it in the form of specialized books, disciplinary journals, international congresses or university lectures, the influence and power of such discourse is enormous. Most students and scholars, however, concern themselves almost exclusively with 'what' is written or said within such discourse, ignoring the often more important question of 'how' what is written or said is expressed or received. This book analyzes and contrasts ways in which writers from the disciplines of History and Economics present themselves and their knowledge claims to their readers, in an attempt to understand how common lexico-grammatical and pragmatic elements of texts act to persuade the readers of the knowledge claims being brought forth, as well as to see how the writers position themselves as they are making these claims. The work investigates the way academic writers construct disciplinary identity through display of their ideas or assumptions, the persuasive forms of argumentation they employ and how they represent themselves and others in their texts. In doing so, it aims as well to establish the consistency and the effects of such disciplinary identity by highlighting a few of the ideological and epistemological consequences of the choices made by each of the disciplinary (or discourse) communities.

Disciplinary Discourses Michigan Classics Ed

Disciplinary Discourses  Michigan Classics Ed
Author: Ken Hyland
Publsiher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2004-07-22
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780472030248

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Why do engineers "report" while philosophers "argue" and biologists "describe"? In the Michigan Classics Edition of Disciplinary Discourses: Social Interactions in AcademicWriting, Ken Hyland examines the relationships between the cultures of academic communities and their unique discourses. Drawing on discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, and the voices of professional insiders, Ken Hyland explores how academics use language to organize their professional lives, carry out intellectual tasks, and reach agreement on what will count as knowledge. In addition, Disciplinary Discourses presents a useful framework for understanding the interactions between writers and their readers in published academic writing. From this framework, Hyland provides practical teaching suggestions and points out opportunities for further research within the subject area. As issues of linguistic and rhetorical expression of disciplinary conventions are becoming more central to teachers, students, and researchers, the careful analysis and straightforward style of Disciplinary Discourses make it a remarkable asset. The Michigan Classics Edition features a new preface by the author and a new foreword by John M. Swales.

Academic Discourse

Academic Discourse
Author: Ken Hyland
Publsiher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2009-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781441192042

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Academic discourse is a rapidly growing area of study, attracting researchers and students from a diverse range of fields. This is partly due to the growing awareness that knowledge is socially constructed through language and partly because of the emerging dominance of English as the language of scholarship worldwide. Large numbers of students and researchers must now gain fluency in the conventions of English language academic discourses to understand their disciplines, establish their careers and to successfully navigate their learning. This accessible and readable book shows the nature and importance of academic discourses in the modern world, offering a clear description of the conventions of spoken and written academic discourse and the ways these construct both knowledge and disciplinary communities. This unique genre-based introduction to academic discourse will be essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students studying TESOL, applied linguistics, and English for Academic Purposes.

Abstracts in Academic Discourse

Abstracts in Academic Discourse
Author: Marina Bondi,Rosa Lorés Sanz
Publsiher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Abstracts
ISBN: 3034314833

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Drawing on genre analysis and corpus linguistics, the book brings together studies on a genre that is becoming one of the most important in present-day research communication. The chapters are organised into three sections focusing on language and genre variation across cultures and disciplines, as well as on recent language and genre change.

Language and Discipline Perspectives on Academic Discourse

Language and Discipline Perspectives on Academic Discourse
Author: Kjersti Fløttum
Publsiher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2009-05-05
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781443810241

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This book represents the physical outcome of the symposium “Academic Voices in Contrast”, organised at the University of Bergen, Norway, in May 2006. The symposium, focusing on recent research within the field of academic discourse, was initiated and organised by the KIAP project (Cultural Identity in Academic Prose; see www.uib.no/kiap/). In this project, a special focus has been put on the study of the voice(s) of the academic author, in the doubly contrastive perspective of language and discipline. A narrow selection of distinguished scholars were invited to participate at the symposium. They were asked to address issues related to “traditional” linguistic versus contextual approaches or to interlingual and interdisciplinary similarities and differences in academic discourse. By the papers of the following, the symposium and the present book constitute a clear advancement of the research on academic discourse: M. A. A. Ariza, L. Berge, M. Bondi, S. V. Bonn, S. Carter-Thomas, T. Dahl, K. Fløttum, A. M. Gjesdal, F. Grossmann, K. Hyland, T. Kinn, L. Lundquist, A. Mauranen, M. Pabón, E. Rowley-Jolivet, F. Salager-Meyer, P. Shaw, J. M. Swales, J.L. Tønnesson, E. T. Vold, F. Wirth.

Academic Discourse

Academic Discourse
Author: Pierre Bourdieu,Jean-Claude Passeron,Monique de Saint Martin
Publsiher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 152
Release: 1996-03-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0804726884

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In this innovative work on culture and education, Pierre Bourdieu and his associates examine the role of language and linguistic misunderstanding in the teaching contexts of higher education.

Academic Discourse and Global Publishing

Academic Discourse and Global Publishing
Author: Ken Hyland,Feng (Kevin) Jiang
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2019
Genre: Academic writing
ISBN: 1138359009

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Part one. Academic discourse and rhetorical change -- Publish and prosper : the changing face of academic life -- Understanding language change : corpora, contexts and rhetoric -- Part two. Changes in argument patterns -- A multidimensional analysis of change -- Changes in coherence and cohesion : let's look at this -- Points of reference : changing patterns of citation -- Changes in self-citation : cumulative inquiry or self-promotion -- Bundling up : changes in multiword combinations -- Part three. Changes in stance and engagement -- Evidentiality, affect and presence : changing patterns of stance -- Changes in a stance marker : evaluative that -- Representing readers : changes in engagement -- Changes in the rhetorical self : a profile of we -- Is academic writing becoming more informal? -- Part four. Epilogue -- Pulling it all together.