Disciplinary Discourses: Social Interactions in Academic Writing

by Ken Hyland

Why do engineers "report" while philosophers "argue" and biologists "describe"? In the Michigan Classics Edition of Disciplinary Discourses: Social Interactions in AcademicWriting, Ken Hyland examines the relationships between the cultures of academic communities and their unique discourses. Drawing on discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, and the voices of professional insiders, Ken Hyland explores how academics use language to organize...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472030248
• ISBN13: 9780472030248
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press ELT
• Length: 211 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"