Writing is crucial to the academic world. It is the main mode of communication among scientists and scholars and also a means for students for obtaining their degrees. The papers in this volume highlight the intercultural, generic and textual complexities of academic writing. Comparisons are made between various traditions of academic writing in different cultures and contexts and the studies combine linguistic analyses with analyses of the social settings in which academic writing takes place and is acquired. The common denominator for the papers is writing in English and attention is given...
Writing is crucial to the academic world. It is the main mode of communication among scientists and scholars and also a means for students for obtaini...
Focuses on how we use language to make meaning of the world, on how the systems and structures of the ideational function of language represent the realisation of our experiences of the world around us. This title addresses issues such as layers of meaning through the transitivity system, and agency and subjectivity.
Focuses on how we use language to make meaning of the world, on how the systems and structures of the ideational function of language represent the re...