Disciplinary Discourses, Michigan Classics Ed.
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Disciplinary Discourses, Michigan Classics Ed. by Ken Hyland
Drawing on discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, and the voices of professional insiders, Ken Hyland explores how academics use language to organise their professional lives, carry out intellectual tasks, and reach agreement on what will count as knowledge.
Ken Hyland is a well-known researcher in the field of academic discourse, writing and language education, and has published over 26 books and 220 papers with 32,000 citations on Google Scholar. Ken taught English oversees in a variety of interesting and exotic places. First as a volunteer in the Sudan, and then in Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand and Hong Kong. Along the way he got an MA from the University of Birmingham and a PhD from the University of Queensland. After 26 years travelling the world, he returned to London as a professor at the UCL Institute of Education before returning to Hong Kong to head the Centre for Applied English Studies at the University of Hong Kong in 2009. In 2017 he took a professorship at the University of East Anglia in the UK. He was the founding co-editor of the Journal of English for Academic Purposes and was co-editor of Applied Linguistics.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780472030248 |
| ISBN 10 | 0472030248 |
| Title | Disciplinary Discourses, Michigan Classics Ed. |
| Author | Ken Hyland |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | The University of Michigan Press |
| Year published | 2004-07-31 |
| Number of pages | 232 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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