Ken Hyland
Ken Hyland is Honorary Professor at the University of East Anglia. He was previously a professor at University College London, the university of Hong Kong and UEA. He has taught in Africa, Asia and Europe and is best known for his research into writing and academic discourse, having published 260+ articles and 29 books on these topics with over 69,000 citations on Google Scholar. A collection of his work was published as The Essential Hyland (Bloomsbury, 2018).
After graduating with a degree in Sociology from the University of Warwick, Ken went overseas to teach English. He first worked as a volunteer in the Sudan, and then taught in Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand and Hong Kong, gaining an MA and a PhD along the way. After nine years at Lingnan and City University in Hong Kong, he was offered a professorship at the University of London, where he directed the Centre for Academic and Professional Literacies at the Institute of Education, UCL, for six years. He returned to Hong Kong in 2009 to head the Centre for Applied English Studies and moved to the University of East Anglia as Professor of Applied Linguistics in Education in October, 2017. Ken remains a prolific writer and has published 18 Books since 2010 in addition to numerous articles in the leading journals. His most recent books include second editions of Second Language Writing (CUP, 2019) and Feedback on Second Language Writing (edited with F. Hyland, CUP, 2019), Academic Discourse and global publishing (with K Jiang, Routledge, 2019), Specialized English (edited with L. Wong, Routledge, 2019) and Novice writers writing for publication (edited with P. Habibe, Palgrave, 2019). He is the Editor of the Bloomsbury Discourse Series and Routledge Innovations and Challenges in Applied Linguistics, was founding co-editor of the Journal of English for Academic Purposes and was co-editor of Applied Linguistics. Ken is Visiting Professor at Jilin University, China.
Address: University of East Anglia
Norwich, UK
www.kenhyland.com
After graduating with a degree in Sociology from the University of Warwick, Ken went overseas to teach English. He first worked as a volunteer in the Sudan, and then taught in Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand and Hong Kong, gaining an MA and a PhD along the way. After nine years at Lingnan and City University in Hong Kong, he was offered a professorship at the University of London, where he directed the Centre for Academic and Professional Literacies at the Institute of Education, UCL, for six years. He returned to Hong Kong in 2009 to head the Centre for Applied English Studies and moved to the University of East Anglia as Professor of Applied Linguistics in Education in October, 2017. Ken remains a prolific writer and has published 18 Books since 2010 in addition to numerous articles in the leading journals. His most recent books include second editions of Second Language Writing (CUP, 2019) and Feedback on Second Language Writing (edited with F. Hyland, CUP, 2019), Academic Discourse and global publishing (with K Jiang, Routledge, 2019), Specialized English (edited with L. Wong, Routledge, 2019) and Novice writers writing for publication (edited with P. Habibe, Palgrave, 2019). He is the Editor of the Bloomsbury Discourse Series and Routledge Innovations and Challenges in Applied Linguistics, was founding co-editor of the Journal of English for Academic Purposes and was co-editor of Applied Linguistics. Ken is Visiting Professor at Jilin University, China.
Address: University of East Anglia
Norwich, UK
www.kenhyland.com
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Professor Vijay K Bhatia, City University of Hong Kong.
'Students are often told that successful writing in English is 'reader-friendly'. It must fit together logically, be signposted to guide readers, and take the reader's likely responses and processing difficulties into account. But it also needs to work for the writer too, as we communicate for a reason. We use language to persuade, inform, entertain or perhaps just engage an audience, and this means conveying an attitude to what we say and to our readers. These functions are collectively known as metadiscourse: the linguistic expressions which refer to the evolving text and to the writer and imagined reader of that text.'
Ken Hyland, from the Preface
This book provides an accessible introduction to metadiscourse, discussing its role and importance in written communication. It explores examples from a wide range of texts from business, journalism, academia and student writing to present a new theory of metadiscourse. The final section of the book explores the importance of metadiscourse for teachers and students, and details its practical advantages and applications in the writing class.
Accessibly written and packed with examples, Metadiscourse is an essential introduction for students of applied linguistics, language teachers and academics.
The four books featured are:
Translingual Practice: Global Englishes and Cosmopolitan Relations, By Suresh Canagarajah
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Identity, Edited by Sian Preece
The Routledge Handbook of English for Academic Purposes, Edited by Ken Hyland, Philip Shaw
Discourse Analysis beyond the Speech Event, By Stanton Wortham, Angela Reyes