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Conference Paper: Stylistic prescriptivism vs. authorial practice: an answer from corpus evidence
| Title | Stylistic prescriptivism vs. authorial practice: an answer from corpus evidence |
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| Issue Date | 2016 |
| Citation | The 37th ICAME Conference, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Hong, Kong, 25-29 May 2016 How to Cite? |
| Abstract | Scholarly writing is far from a mechanistic composition of data analyses but a dynamic social construction of knowledge within the disciplinary community (Bamford & Bondi, 2005; Bazerman, 1988; Hyland, 2004). Foreign and novice writers, therefore, find this challenging and make much reliance on style manuals for authoritative opinions about standard, acceptable usage of the language. However, these guidelines tend to be prescriptive in language use and typically lack empirical justification, and, as a result, are sometimes oversimplified or even misconceived ... |
| Description | Conference Theme: Corpus Linguistics across Cultures |
| Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/233311 |
| DC Field | Value | Language |
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| dc.contributor.author | Jiang, F | - |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-09-20T05:36:00Z | - |
| dc.date.available | 2016-09-20T05:36:00Z | - |
| dc.date.issued | 2016 | - |
| dc.identifier.citation | The 37th ICAME Conference, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Hong, Kong, 25-29 May 2016 | - |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/233311 | - |
| dc.description | Conference Theme: Corpus Linguistics across Cultures | - |
| dc.description.abstract | Scholarly writing is far from a mechanistic composition of data analyses but a dynamic social construction of knowledge within the disciplinary community (Bamford & Bondi, 2005; Bazerman, 1988; Hyland, 2004). Foreign and novice writers, therefore, find this challenging and make much reliance on style manuals for authoritative opinions about standard, acceptable usage of the language. However, these guidelines tend to be prescriptive in language use and typically lack empirical justification, and, as a result, are sometimes oversimplified or even misconceived ... | - |
| dc.language | eng | - |
| dc.relation.ispartof | ICAME 37 Conference | - |
| dc.title | Stylistic prescriptivism vs. authorial practice: an answer from corpus evidence | - |
| dc.type | Conference_Paper | - |
| dc.description.nature | postprint | - |
| dc.identifier.hkuros | 263597 | - |