The Functional Analysis of English is an introduction to the analysis and description of
English, based on the principles of systemic functional linguistics. It sets out the tools and …

Ken Hyland provides an authoritative discussion of key aspects of writing for academic
publication. What are the issues surrounding particular academic genres? What are the …

In recent years, technology has been increasingly harnessed for motivating and supporting
people toward various individually and collectively beneficial behaviors. One of the most …

Academic publication now dominates the lives of academics across the globe who must
increasingly submit their research for publication in high profile English language journals to …

This book provides an introduction to the aims, theories and practices of critical discourse
analysis (CDA). It is mainly concerned with the linguistic aspects of CDA. It provides an …

Not so long ago, I ran a postgraduate workshop on Actor-Network Theory (henceforth ANT).
An introductory overview had been specifically requested by students, many of whom did not …

Both knowledge and discourse are fundamental notions in the humanities and social
sciences. It is therefore surprising that so little detailed research has been done on the …

How to do Discourse Analysis: A Toolkit is the essential new book from James Paul Gee,
bestselling author of An Introduction to Discourse Analysis: Theory and Method. Discourse …

Examining features of stance in a corpus of research articles, this chapter suggests that
choices of rhetorical strategy depend on relations between participants, and that the writer's …

The 21st century is awash with ever more mixed and remixed images, writing, layout, sound,
gesture, speech, and 3D objects. Multimodality looks beyond language and examines these …