Focusing on the introductions to research articles in a variety of disciplines, the author uses
appraisal theory to analyze how writers bring together multiple resources to develop their …

This chapter looks at hedging as an aspect of pragmatic competence. After describing the
evolution of the concept of hedging from 1972 to the present day, it reviews the principal …

This paper is a qualitative and quantitative corpus-based study of how academic writers use
the personal pronouns I and inclusive and exclusive we. Using a multidisciplinary corpus …

Writing: Texts, Processes and Practices offers an innovative and multidisciplinary approach
to writing in a variety of academic and professional settings. The book is composed of a …

Winner of the European Society for the Study of English Language and Linguistics Book
Award 2010 This book is one of the first applications of a functional approach to language …

Research in the area of intercultural rhetoric has mainly focused on academic writing in
English and other languages. However, the writing of research article abstracts in English …

This study presents results from a corpus-based analysis of the expression of attitude,
emotion, certainty and doubt (stance) in a large corpus of British and American conversation …

El modelo lingüístico sistémico funcional del lenguaje (Halliday, 1994) nos invita a
considerar el significado interpersonal junto con el ideacional y el textual, en cada uno de …

Kritisches Denken ist heute eines der wichtigsten Ziele höherer Bildung. Es hat weniger mit
Kritik zu tun, als damit, wie man begründen kann, was Wissen glaubwürdig macht und wie …

The abstract is known to be a promotional genre where researchers tend to exaggerate the
benefit of their research and use a promotional discourse to catch the reader's attention. The …