1st Edition
Metadiscursive Nouns Interaction and Persuasion in Disciplinary Writing
By Feng (Kevin) Jiang
Copyright 2022
234 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
234 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
234 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Based on a 1.7-million-word corpus of 160 research articles from both soft and hard knowledge fields, this book sets out to explore how a particular type of noun – namely, the metadiscursive noun – is rhetorically used to mediate writer-reader interaction in disciplinary writing.
Analysts of academic discourse have come to regard hedges, reporting verbs, directives and so on as forming... Read more
Preface, 1 Introduction, 2 Review of Related Concepts, 3 Metadiscursive Nouns, 4 Methodology, 5 Overall results: frequency, distribution and wordlist, 6 Interactive function: anaphoric and cataphoric cohesion, 7 Interactional function: stance and engagement, 8 Conclusion
Biography
Feng (Kevin) Jiang is Kuang Yaming Distinguished Professor of applied linguistics at Jilin University, China. He gained his PhD under Professor Ken Hyland at the Univerity of Hong Kong and has been researching and teaching in academic writing, corpus analysis and disciplinary discourse. His publications have appeared in most major applied linguistics journals.
