TY - JOUR
AU1 - SUN, JIANDONG
AB - Disciplinary Discourses: Social Interactions in Academic Writing. Ken Hyland. London: Longman, 2000. Pp. xxi + 211. Disciplinary Discourses: Social Interactions in Academic Writing is part of the Applied Linguistics and Language Study series on the study of practical problems in human communication and language education. The author makes a distinctive contribution to applied linguistics research by examining linguistic features in academic writing for traces of social interactions rather than regarding them as regularities of academic style or the result of some mental processes of representing meaning. The main purpose of this book is to present an innovative study of social interactions in published academic writing. It contains eight chapters divided into four sections. The first covers the theoretical background. Section 2 (chapters 2–6), the main part of the book, reports a corpus-based study of writing in eight disciplines and a variety of genres (research articles, abstracts, book reviews, textbooks, and scientific letters). The third section (chapter 7) is devoted to the examination of some of the implications of the approach for both teaching and research. Finally, Section 4 (chapter 8) attempts to draw connections between the social interactions of community members and wider issues of institutional power and disciplinary 
TI - Disciplinary Discourses: Social Interactions in Academic Writing.: Ken Hyland
JF - Tesol Quarterly
DO - 10.2307/3587657
DA - 2001-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/disciplinary-discourses-social-interactions-in-academic-writing-ken-81gG6PAQXj
SP - 344
EP - 345
VL - 35
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -