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Publication details [#60723]

Hyland, ken and Feng (Kevin) Jiang. 2015. ‘The fact that’: Stance nouns in disciplinary writing. Discourse Studies 17 (5) : 529–550.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

academic language | classifier | evaluation | noun phrase | rhetoric

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

Elaborating a novel rhetorically grounded stance noun classification, it is demonstrated that the structure is broadly employed to convey academic author comment and evaluation, yet displays notable contrast in the manner it is used to construct knowledge across diverse disciplines.