Metadiscourse: Exploring Interaction in Writing

Bloomsbury Classics in Linguistics

by Ken Hyland

This book addresses an important aspect of how language is used in written communication: the ways that writers reflect on their texts to refer to themselves, their readers or the text itself. This is known as METADISCOURSE. Metadiscourse is a key reso

Genres: Linguistics

240 pages, ebook

First published September 12, 2005

About the author

Ken Hyland is Professor of Applied Linguistics in Education at the University of East Anglia. He is a Foundation Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities and an Honorary Professor at Warwick University, Jilin University and Hong Kong University.

Reviews

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A compelling analysis of the social and rhetorical function of metadiscourse in all kinds of writing and speech. Hyland reviews other models of metadiscourse and traces through them a common concern with the way that we use metadiscourse (i.e., discourse about discourse) to engage with readers and to achieve contextually-important rhetorical ends. Offers a concrete model of his own that is easily adaptable to a variety of study contexts.