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Hyland, Ken (2011) Disciplines and discourses: social interactions in the construction of knowledge. In: Starke-Meyerring, Doreen and Paré, Anthony and Artemeva, Natasha and Horne, Miriam and Yousoubova, Larissa, (eds.) Writing in Knowledge Societies. West Lafayette, IN, U.S.A.: Parlor Press and the WAC Clearinghouse, pp. 193-214. ISBN 9781602352698
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Abstract
The view that academic writing is persuasive is now widely accepted. Exactly how this is achieved, however, is more contentious, and raises a number of important issues, not least of which are those concerning the relationship between reality and accounts of it, the efficacy of logical induction, and the role of social communities in constructing knowledge. These topics have been debated for years in epistemology and the sociology of science, and in the past decade applied linguists have also entered the fray. Corpus linguists have been particularly active in emphasising the importance of rhetoric in academic persuasion, and, in this chapter, I bring my own small contribution to the discussion. In particular, I look at what differences in disciplinary discourses tell us about the ways academic knowledge is socially constructed, focusing on interpersonal features of language. I am interested in what this tells us about writers’ ideas of appropriate writer-reader relationships and how this, in turn, contributes to knowledge-making in the disciplines (Hyland & Bondi, 2006).
Item Type: | Book Item | ||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics | ||||
Publisher: | Parlor Press and the WAC Clearinghouse | ||||
Place of Publication: | West Lafayette, IN, U.S.A. | ||||
ISBN: | 9781602352698 | ||||
Book Title: | Writing in Knowledge Societies | ||||
Editor: | Starke-Meyerring, Doreen and Paré, Anthony and Artemeva, Natasha and Horne, Miriam and Yousoubova, Larissa | ||||
Official Date: | 3 November 2011 | ||||
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Number of Pages: | 441 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 193-214 | ||||
Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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