'The leading journal in its field': evaluation in journal descriptions  

Oleh:

Hyland, Ken ; Tse, Polly

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Discourse Studies (Full Text) vol. 11 no. 6 (Dec. 2009), page 703.
Topik: academic discourse; evaluation; genre analysis; journal description; moves; promotion
Fulltext: Discourse Studies-2009-Hyland-703-20.pdf (209.75KB)

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valuation, as the expression of a writer’s attitudes, opinions and values, has become a key term in discourse studies in recent years and has proved to be a particularly fruitful way of analysing academic texts. But while studies have shown the importance of evaluation in research genres, its role in seemingly more promotional academic genres has been largely neglected. This article examines the journal description (JD), a brief but ubiquitous feature of all journals, whether online or in print. Situated at the academic–commercial interface, the JD provides information for prospective readers and authors while endorsing a particular view of the field and positioning the journal in the academic community. Drawing on a corpus of 200 JDs in four contrasting disciplines, we show how evaluation is a key feature of this genre, inf luencing both lexical choices and rhetorical structure. The analysis contributes both to our understanding of a neglected academic genre and the evaluative resources of language.

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