Includes bibliographical references (p. 194-207) and indexes
Disciplinary cultures, texts and interactions -- - The importance of academic writing -- - The social creation of knowledge -- - Disciplinary cultures -- - Texts as social interaction -- - Approaches to academic interactions -- - Academic attribution: interaction through citation -- - Citation and intertextuality: some preliminaries -- - Citation signals -- - An overview of academic citation -- - Hard v soft knowledge and community practices -- - Contextualisation and the construction of knowledge -- - Agency and epistemology in citations -- - Ownership and membership in disciplinarity -- - Ethos and evaluation: the use of reporting verbs -- - Praise and criticism: interactions in book reviews -- - The book review genre -- - Evaluation in reviews -- - Dimensions of praise and criticism -- - Disciplinary differences in evaluations -- - Structural patterns of praise and criticism -- - Mitigation of evaluative acts -- - Speaking as an insider: promotion and credibility in abstracts -- - Texts, informants and methods -- - A move-structure classification of abstracts -- - Move-structure and rhetorical persuasion -- - Disciplinary differences in abstract structures -- - Claiming significance in abstracts -- - Claiming insider credibility -- - Evolving patterns: 1980-1997 -- - Priority and prudence: the scientific letter -- - The letter genre -- - What are hedges and boosters? -- - Forms and frequencies of hedges and boosters -- - Circumspection and uncertainty: hedging in knowledge-making -- - Priority and solidarity: boosters in significance negotiation -- - Putting it together: hedges and boosters in letters
"In Disciplinary Discourses: Social Interactions in Academic Writing, 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."--BOOK JACKET.
