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Publication details [#60732]

Mayes, Patricia. 2015. Becoming an ‘autonomous writer’: Epistemic stance displays and membership categorization in the writing conference. Discourse Studies 17 (6) : 752–769.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

academic language | authority | categorization | institutional context | writing

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper debates how epistemic stance displays render the standardized relational ‘teacher –student’ pair pertinent in the course of writing conferences in a US university, whilst also indicating a tension between authority and autonomy.