Metadiscursive Nouns: Interaction and Persuasion in Disciplinary Writing

ISBN-13: 9781032270005 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 220 str.

Jiang

Opis

Based on a 1.7-million-word corpus of 160 research articles from both soft and hard knowledge fields, this book sets out to explore how a particular type of noun, namely, metadiscursive nouns are rhetorically used to mediate writer-reader interaction in disciplinary writing.

Spis treści

Preface, 1 Introduction, 2 Review of Related Concepts, 3 Metadiscursive Nouns, 4 Methodology, 5 Overall results: frequency, distribution and wordlist, 6 Interactive function: anaphoric and cataphoric cohesion, 7 Interactional function: stance and engagement, 8 Conclusion

O autorze

Feng (Kevin) Jiang is Kuang Yaming Distinguished Professor of applied linguistics at Jilin University, China. He gained his PhD under Professor Ken Hyland at the Univerity of Hong Kong and has been researching and teaching in academic writing, corpus analysis and disciplinary discourse. His publications have appeared in most major applied linguistics journals.