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Publication details [#51635]

Hyland, ken and Polly Tse. 2009. ‘The leading journal in its field’: evaluation in journal descriptions. Discourse Studies 11 (6) : 703–720.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

academic language | description | evaluation | genre | rhetoric

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This study demonstrates that evaluation is a crucial feature of the more promotional academic journal description, affecting both lexical choices and rhetorical structure.