The essential Hyland : studies in applied linguistics / Ken Hyland.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

PART ONE. Writing, participation and identity -- 1. Writing in the university : education, knowledge and reputation -- 2. Discipline : proximity and positioning -- 3. Participation : community and expertise -- 4. Community and individuality : performing identity in applied linguistics -- Commentary by Charles Bazerman -- PART TWO. Interaction, stance and metadiscourse -- 5. Disciplinary cultures, texts and interactions -- 6. Stance and engagement : a model of interaction in academic discourse -- 7. Metadiscourse in academic writing : a reappraisal (with Polly Tse) -- 8. Change of attitude? A diachronic study of stance (with Kevin Jiang) -- Commentary by Brian Paltridge -- PART THREE. Interactions in peripheral genres -- 9. Constructing proximity : relating to readers in popular and professional science -- 10. Dissertation acknowledgements : the anatomy of a Cinderella genre -- 11. The presentation of self in scholarly life : identity and marginalization in academic homepages -- Commentary by Vijay K. Bhatia -- PART FOUR. Features of academic writing -- 12. Academic attribution : citation and the construction of disciplinary knowledge -- 13. Humble servants of the discipline? Self-mention in research articles -- 14. Is there an "academic vocabulary"? (with Polly Tse) -- 15. As can be seen : lexical bundles and disciplinary variation -- Commentary by Diane Belcher -- PART FIVE. Pedagogy and EAP -- 16. Genre-based pedagogies : a social response to process -- 17. Nuturing hedges in the ESP curriculum -- 18. Sugaring the pill : praise and criticism in written feedback (with Fiona Hyland) -- 19. Specificity revisited : how far whould we go now? -- Commentary by Ann Johns.

Writing in the academy has assumed huge importance in recent years as countless students and academics around the world must now gain fluency in the conventions of academic writing in English to understand their disciplines, to establish their careers or to successfully navigate their learning. Professor Ken J. Hyland has been a contributor to the literature on this topic for over 20 years, with 26 books and over 200 chapters and articles. This work has had considerable influence in shaping the direction of the field and generating papers and PhD theses from researchers around the world. This is a topic which has found its time, as a central concept in applied linguistics, sociology of science, library studies, bibliometrics, and so on. This book brings together Ken Hyland's most influential and cited papers. These are organised thematically to provide both an introduction to the study of academic discourse and an overview of his contribution to the understanding of how academics construct themselves, their disciplines and knowledge through written texts. Several academic celebrities from the field provide a brief commentary on the papers and the book includes an overall reflection by the author on the impact of the papers and the direction of the field together with linear notes on the specific papers in each section. The volume not only includes some of Hyland's best chapters and journal articles but the thoughts of disciplinary luminaries on both the ideas in the book and the general state and direction of the field.

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