▪ Abstract This essay is an overview of the theoretical, methodological, pedagogical,
ideological, and power-related issues of world Englishes: varieties of English used in …

Despite momentous developments in the sociopolitics of the teaching of English worldwide,
targets have generally remained tied to native‐speaker norms. This paper argues that …

In Writing Genres, Amy J. Devitt examines genre from rhetorical, social, linguistic,
professional, and historical perspectives and explores genre's educational uses, making this …

Since the early 1980s, in much of the work within a genre-analytic approach, communicative
goal or purpose has been used as an important and often primary criterion for deciding …

The main purpose of this paper is to investigate to what extent there is rhetorical variation
between the research article abstracts written in English for international journals and those …

For the first time, the major theoretical and pedagogical approaches to genre and related
issues of social construction are presented in a single volume, providing an overview of the …

This volume aims to familiarize readers with the varieties of world Englishes used across
cultures and to create awareness of some of the linguistic and socially relevant contexts and …

This paper describes an analysis of communicative moves in discussion sections across
seven disciplines—Physics, Biology, Environmental Science, Business, Language and …

The goal of this book is to examine some of the resources that speakers employ when
building conversations. These resources contribute to overall coherence and cohesion …

It has been observed that hedges, linguistic devices indicating less than complete certainty
or commitment regarding information put forth, occur quite frequently in scientific discourse …