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Publication details [#53085]

Hyland, ken and Polly Tse. 2010. Claiming a territory: Relative clauses in journal descriptions. Journal of Pragmatics 42 (7) : 1880–1889.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

academic language | journalese | persuasion | pragmatic function | relative clause

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study of 200 journal descriptions in four contrasting disciplines, discloses that relative clauses play a weighty, and possibly surprising role in this genre, operating pragmatically as an evaluative and persuasive means to promote academic journals.