Academic discourse is a rapidly growing area of study, attracting researchers and students from a diverse range of fields. This is partly due to the growing awareness that knowledge is socially constructed through language and partly because of the emerging dominance of English as the language of scholarship worldwide. Large numbers of students and researchers must now gain fluency in the conventions of English language academic discourses to understand their disciplines, establish their careers and to successfully navigate their learning. This accessible and readable book shows the nature and importance of academic discourses in the modern world, offering a clear description of the conventions of spoken and written academic discourse and the ways these construct both knowledge and disciplinary communities. This unique genre-based introduction to academic discourse will be essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students studying TESOL, applied linguistics, and English for Academic Purposes.
| ISBN: | 9780826498045 |
| Publication date: | 1st January 2009 |
| Author: | Professor Ken University of East Anglia, UK Hyland |
| Publisher: | Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 256 pages |
| Series: | Continuum Discourse |
| Genres: |
Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics |
Academic discourse is a rapidly growing area of study, attracting researchers and students from a diverse range of fields. This is partly due to the growing awareness that knowledge is socially constructed through language and partly because of the emerging dominance of English as the language of scholarship worldwide. Large numbers of students and researchers must now gain fluency in the conventions of English language academic discourses to understand their disciplines, establish their careers and to successfully navigate their learning. This accessible and readable book shows the nature and importance of academic discourses in the modern world, offering a clear description of the conventions of spoken and written academic discourse and the ways these construct both knowledge and disciplinary communities. This unique genre-based introduction to academic discourse will be essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students studying TESOL, applied linguistics, and English for Academic Purposes.
Academic Discourse features in the following genres: Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics
Academic Discourse is available in Hardback, Paperback
Academic Discourse was written by Professor Ken University of East Anglia, UK Hyland and published by Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Academic Discourse has 256 pages
Yes it is part of Continuum Discourse series