LING 3P95 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Critical Discourse Analysis, Academic Writing, Pragmatics
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Discourse, identity & author voice: academic writing in focus. Identity just as much an issue in written voice as spoken. Academic literacies: using them in particular situations. Author voice: expression of the personal identity of the author. We propose several possible reason of this (l2; active vs passive; hedge: reader pronoun; ie. you, possible; hedge example of stance possible reasons, not for sure, should be for instead of of . On this point, we must definitely follow hegel"s intuitions (boost) Still, i believe that dworkin"s investment model has remarkable resonance and extraordinary potential power. (attitude markers) What we found interesting about this context, however, is the degree of uniformity of their norms and attitudes. There is strong tendency for the bubbles to redissolve at the time of thaw (strength of claim) Of course, i do not content that (attitude marker) Seeing language as an expression of (challenging) social, cultural, and political views. Written texts similarly ideological to spoken ones.