Metadiscourse: Exploring Interaction in Writing

by Ken Hyland

Overview

This book provides an accessible introduction to metadiscourse, discussing its role and importance in written communication. It explores examples from a wide range of texts from business, journalism, academia and student writing to present a new theory of metadiscourse. The final section of the book explores the importance of metadiscourse for teachers and students, and details its practical advantages and applications in the writing class.

Accessibly written and packed with examples, Metadiscourse is an essential introduction for students of applied linguistics, language teachers and academics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781350063587
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	10/18/2018
Series:	Bloomsbury Classics in Linguistics
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	5.61(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.61(d)

About the Author

Ken Hyland is Professor of Applied Linguistics in Education at the University of East Anglia, UK.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Preface to the 2005 edition
Foreword to the 2018 edition
Section 1: What is metadiscourse?
1. First Impressions
2. Definitions, issues and classifications
3. A metadiscourse model
Section 2: Metadiscourse in practice
4. Metadiscourse and rhetoric
5. Metadiscourse and genre
6. Metadiscourse and culture
7. Metadiscourse and communication
Section 3: Issues and implications
8. Metadiscourse in the classroom
9. Issues and directions
References
Appendix: Metadiscourse items investigated
Subject Index
Author Index

Editorial Reviews

'...accessible introduction to metadiscourse, discussing its role and importance in written communication...a valuable and comprehensive study, which not only imposes relevant questions, but provides valid answers in regards to this subject establishing new directions for future investigations.'--Alexander Carapic "Linguist List "

'this one is gold...anyone interested in the way writers and written language function, such as the use of parentheses...should really visit this book and stay a while....Linguistic statisticians like myself previously only dreamt of such data as appears on page 57...There is something for everyone concerned with EAP writing in this work; from the research student pouring over her thesis in the stuffy library, to the concerned teacher of EAP writing who worries that his students have little control over hedging devices. With Metadiscourse, plus his 2003 title, Second Language Writing (CUP)...Hyland is providing wholesome fare to the community of teachers of writing around the globe.' Wayne Trotman, EL Reviews, August 2006

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