Metadiscourse: Exploring Interaction in Writing

by Ken Hyland

Book Overview

This book addresses an important aspect of how language is used in written communication: the ways that writers reflect on their texts to refer to themselves, their readers or the text itself. This is known as METADISCOURSE.

Metadiscourse is a key resource in language, as it allows the writer to engage with readers in familiar and expected ways. Writers use the devices of metadiscourse to adjust the level of personality in their texts, to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826476112
• ISBN13: 9780826476111
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.2"