Stance and voice in written academic genres

280 Pages·2012·0.84 MB·English

by  Ken Hyland

Stance and Voice in Written
Academic Genres
Edited by
Ken Hyland and Carmen Sancho Guinda
Stance and Voice in Written Academic Genres
Also by Ken Hyland
ACADEMIC DISCOURSE
DISCIPLINARY DISCOURSES: Social Interactions in Academic Writing
DISCIPLINARY IDENTITIES
ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSES: An Advanced Resource Book
GENRE AND SECOND LANGUAGE WRITERS
HEDGING IN SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ARTICLES
METADISCOURSE
SECOND LANGUAGE WRITING
TEACHING AND RESEARCHING WRITING
Stance and Voice in Written
Academic Genres
Edited by
Ken Hyland
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
and
Carmen Sancho Guinda
Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain
Selection and editorial content © Ken Hyland and Carmen
Sancho Guinda 2012
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We dedicate this book to our colleague and
friend Richard Pemberton – his brave voice is an
inspiration. And to all those whose voices were or
are silenced for expressing their stance
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Contents
List of Tables ix
List of Figures x
Acknowledgements xi
Notes on the Contributors xii
1 Introduction: a Context-Sensitive Approach to
Stance and Voice 1
Carmen Sancho Guinda and Ken Hyland
Part I Contemporary Views of Stance and Voice
2 Current Conceptions of Stance 15
Bethany Gray and Douglas Biber
3 Current Conceptions of Voice 34
Christine M. Tardy
Part II Stance and Voice in Professional Genres
4 Voice and Stance as APPRAISAL: Persuading and Positioning
in Research Writing across Intellectual Fields 51
Susan Hood
5 Stance in Academic Bios 69
Polly Tse
6 Hedging, Stance and Voice in Medical Research Articles 85
Alan G. Gross and Paula Chesley
7 Voice in Textbooks: between Exposition and Argument 101
Marina Bondi
Part III Stance and Voice in Student Genres
8 Achieving a Voice of Authority in PhD Theses 119
Paul Thompson
9 Undergraduate Understandings: Stance and Voice in
Final Year Reports 134
Ken Hyland
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10 Voice in Student Essays 151
Paul Kei Matsuda and Jill V. Jeffery
11 Proximal Positioning in Students’ Graph Commentaries 166
Carmen Sancho Guinda
Part IV Variation of Stance and Voice in
Academic Discourse
12 Stance and Voice in Academic Discourse across Channels 187
Ann Hewings
13 Voice and Stance across Disciplines in Academic Discourse 202
Marc Silver
14 Variation of Stance and Voice across Cultures 218
Kjersti Fløttum
15 The Voice of Scholarly Dispute in Medical Book Reviews,
1890–2010 232
Françoise Salager-Meyer, María Ángeles Alcaraz Ariza and
Marianela Luzardo Briceño
16 Epilogue 249
Deborah Cameron
Name Index 257

Subject Index 260
List of Tables
5.1 Corpus length by discipline 75
5.2 Overall frequencies of moves and process types 76
5.3 Moves by disciplines (per 1000 words) 77
5.4 Process types by disciplines (per 1000 words) 81
6.1 Model coefficients – normalized hedging score 94
7.1(a) Frequency of importance markers in textbooks 111
7.1(b) Frequency of importance markers in journal articles 111
9.1 Frequency of features (per 10,000 words) 138
9.2 Overall functions of directives by genre (%) 142
11.1 Percentages of samples with rhetorical stance features 174
11.2 Frequencies of linguistic stance features 176
11.3 Frequencies of engagement features 177
11.4 Interactive metadiscourse frequencies 178
13.1 Voice in microbiology 206
13.2 Voice in history of sci ence 208
13.3 Voice in art history 213
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