Hyland, Ken.

Disciplinary identities : individuality and community in academic discourse / Ken Hyland, Hong Kong University. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012. - xii, 236 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. - The Cambridge applied linguistics series . - Cambridge applied linguistics series. .

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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English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers.

PE1128 A2 / H95 2012

410.1/88

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