Stance and Voice in Written Academic Genres brings together a range of perspectives on two of the most important and contested concepts in applied linguistics: stance and voice. International experts provide an accessible, yet authoritative...
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Stance and Voice in Written Academic Genres brings together a range of perspectives on two of the most important and contested concepts in applied linguistics: stance and voice. International experts provide an accessible, yet authoritative introduction to key issues and debates surrounding these terms
Cover; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Notes on the Contributors; 1 Introduction: a Context-Sensitive Approach to Stance and Voice; Part I: Contemporary Views of Stance and Voice; 2 Current Conceptions of Stance; 3 Current Conceptions of Voice; Part II: Stance and Voice in Professional Genres; 4 Voice and Stance as APPRAISAL: Persuading and Positioning in Research Writing across Intellectual Fields; 5 Stance in Academic Bios; 6 Hedging, Stance and Voice in Medical Research Articles; 7 Voice in Textbooks: between Exposition and Argument
Part III: Stance and Voice in Student Genres8 Achieving a Voice of Authority in PhD Theses; 9 Undergraduate Understandings: Stance and Voice in Final Year Reports; 10 Voice in Student Essays; 11 Proximal Positioning in Students' Graph Commentaries; Part IV: Variation of Stance and Voice in Academic Discourse; 12 Stance and Voice in Academic Discourse across Channels; 13 Voice and Stance across Disciplines in Academic Discourse; 14 Variation of Stance and Voice across Cultures; 15 The Voice of Scholarly Dispute in Medical Book Reviews, 1890-2010; 16 Epilogue; Name Index; Subject Index;
