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Community and individuality: Performing identity in applied linguistics
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English for professional academic purposes: writing for scholarly publication
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Constructing proximity: relating to readers in popular and professional science
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Being Swales and Cameron: constructing identity in applied linguistics
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Discursive practices in EAP: unpacking specificity in academic writing
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"Dinosaur teens were keen on sex": proximity in professional and popular science
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Abstract:
The view that academic writing as an objective and faceless kind of discourse is now dead and buried. Instead, we tend to see academic discourse as a persuasive activity involving interactions between writers and readers; a place where academics don’t just give us a view of the world, but negotiate a credible account of themselves and their work by claiming solidarity with readers, evaluating ideas and acknowledging alternative views. As part of this writers must construct an argument using conventions which establish proximity with readers. I use the term proximity to refer to a writer’s control of language features which display both authority as an expert and a personal position towards issues in a text. Essentially this means that writers have to represent themselves, their material and their readers in ways which meet their readers’ expectations. In other words, proximity entails taking into account participants’ likely objections, background knowledge, expectations and reading purposes. In this paper I explore some of the ways this is done in two very different genres: science research papers and popular science articles. Comparing key features, I show how different language choices are used to construct proximity with very different audiences.
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P Philology. Linguistics; Z004 Books. Writing. Paleography
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URL: http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/48612/ http://www2.caes.hku.hk/events/2010/03/31/khseminar/
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Knowledge transfer and academic context: specificity in EAP
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Reflecting on teaching writing: applying research to the classroom
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Community and individuality: performing identity in applied linguistics
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Claiming a territory: relative clauses in journal descriptions
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Academic lexis and disciplinary practice: corpus evidence for specificity
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In: International Journal of English Studies; Vol. 9 No. 2 (2009): Approaches to English as a Foreign Language Reading Comprehension: Research and Pedagogy ; International Journal of English Studies; Vol. 9 Núm. 2 (2009): Approaches to English as a Foreign Language Reading Comprehension: Research and Pedagogy ; 1989-6131 ; 1578-7044 (2009)
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