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 study concerns text, language, and learning in a linguistically heterogeneous upper
secondary class in Sweden where students aged 16 to 17 are studying biology. One starting …

There is a crucial difference in the way economists and linguists approach metaphor in
economics, the former being mostly interested in the representation of knowledge in the …

Creating a stimulating social theory with long-lasting influence for generations of scholars is
driven by multiple interacting factors. The fortune of a theory is determined not only by the …

The ability to construe and to interpret cause–effect relations is critical to the task of
knowledge building in science. It is essential to understanding investigative processes and …

This paper adopts a Bourdieusian approach to discourse in contemporary Swedish
academia. Habitus, entextualization, and translingual practice are employed as …

Popular music and digital media are constantly entwined in elementary and middle-school
children's talk, interactions, and relationships, and offer powerful cultural resources to …

Writing to learn has become an important practice in science education. How is scientific
knowledge constructed during writing? To investigate this question, we examined the …

This chapter focuses on an emerging southern challenge to the academy, a revisiting of
northern-held historical narratives that have manufactured an'abyssal line'between north …

In epistemologies of both scientific and common sense thinking “objectification”
characterizes the formation of knowledge and concepts, yet in each case its meaning is …