Overview
- Establishes a new model for analysis of the basic structure shared across different types of academic writing, regardless of the influence of diverse ideologies
- Argues that disciplinary constraints alienate marginal individuals from academic activities
- Increases awareness that different conceptualisations of academic writing are not necessarily superior or inferior
Part of the book series: Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse (PSDS)
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“One of the greatest challenges for genre studies is to explain how it is that texts which are each unique and individual can somehow be explained as being of the same underlying type. Models which rely on formal features alone are inevitably limited by the individual variation which is necessarily found in real texts. In this original and scholarly re-imagining of genre theory, Tomoko Sawaki combines multiple theoretical frameworks which normally operate in isolation from each other. The key insight of Greimas’ “semiotic square” is used as the basis of a new model, one which can demonstrate the underlying unity of potentially infinitely diverse instances. Applied to the domain of academic writing, Sawaki’s analytical methods reveal the hegemonising practices of institutionalized discourses, and create methods for ESP/EAP researchers to allow for marginalized perspectives to be accommodated.” (Louise Ravelli, Associate Professor, University of New South Wales, Australia)
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Book Title: Analysing Structure in Academic Writing
Authors: Tomoko Sawaki
Series Title: Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54239-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-54238-0Published: 17 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-54239-7Published: 14 September 2016
Series ISSN: 2946-5990
Series E-ISSN: 2946-6008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 275
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, Cultural Studies, English, Literacy