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Back to topMetadiscursive Nouns: Interaction and Persuasion in Disciplinary Writing (China Perspectives) (Paperback)
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Description
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, metadiscursive nouns are rhetorically used to mediate writer-reader interaction in disciplinary writing.
About the Author
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.