Academic Discourse: English in a Global Context

by Ken Hyland

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826498043
• ISBN13: 9780826498045
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"