Communication of scientific findings is fundamental to scholarly discourse. In this article, we
show that academic review articles, a quintessential form of interpretive scholarly output …

Epistemic practices are the socially organized and interactionally accomplished ways that
members of a group propose, communicate, assess, and legitimize knowledge claims …

This book provides a comprehensive review of the current knowledge on writing and
publishing scientific research papers and the social contexts. It deals with both English and …

In recent years the concept of'register'has been increasingly replaced by emphasis on the
analysis of genre, which relates work in sociolinguistics, text linguistics and discourse …

This book, which is aimed at the advanced undergraduate student, is the first systematic and
comprehensible introduction to the theory and application of discourse analysis within the …

At first I saw Don Juan simply as a rather peculiar man who knew a great deal… but the
people… believed that he had some sort of “secret knowledge”, that he was a “brujo”. The …

Recent studies of the pragmatics of politeness have drawn on conversational data. I argue
that their model can be extended to some genres of written texts. There have been two …

This paper discusses how the communicative purpose of the different rhetorical sections of
research papers (RP) and case reports (CR) in medical English written discourse influences …

Academic writing is rich in hedged propositions. By allowing writers to express their
uncertainty concerning the factuality of their statements or to indicate deference to their …

This unusually innovative book treats reflexivity, not as a philosophical conundrum, but as a
practical issue that arises in the course of scholarly research and argument. In order to …