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Gender and disciplinary variations in academic book reviews: a corpus-based study on metadiscourse.

Tse Po Ting. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 171-180). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Chapter Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Metadiscourse as Interactions in Academic Writing --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1.1 --- Interactions between writer and reader --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1.2 --- "Relations between metadiscourse, interactions and social contexts" --- p.3 / Chapter 1.2 --- Overview of the Present Study --- p.4 / Chapter 1.2.1 --- Research questions --- p.4 / Chapter 1.2.2. --- General research approaches --- p.5 / Chapter 1.3 --- Significance of the Study --- p.6 / Chapter 1.4 --- Organization of the Thesis --- p.7 / Chapter Chapter 2 --- Metadiscourse as Social Interactions --- p.11 / Chapter 2.1 --- Conceptions of Metadiscourse --- p.11 / Chapter 2.2 --- Approaches to Metadiscourse --- p.14 / Chapter 2.2.1 --- Identification of metadiscourse --- p.14 / Chapter 2.2.2 --- Classifications of metadiscourse --- p.15 / Chapter 2.3 --- Recent Development of Metadiscourse Theory --- p.21 / Chapter 2.3.1 --- The distinction between propositional content and metadiscourse --- p.22 / Chapter 2.3.2 --- The interpersonal nature of metadiscourse --- p.23 / Chapter 2.3.3 --- The distinction between internal and external relations --- p.24 / Chapter 2.3.4 --- Summary --- p.27 / Chapter 2.4 --- A Revised Model of Metadiscourse --- p.27 / Chapter 2.5 --- Major Investigations on Metadiscourse --- p.29 / Chapter 2.6 --- Chapter Summary --- p.33 / Chapter Chapter 3 --- The Genre of Academic Book Reviews --- p.35 / Chapter 3.1 --- Book Reviewing in Academia --- p.35 / Chapter 3.2 --- Book Review as a Site for Disciplinary Engagement --- p.38 / Chapter 3.3 --- Studies on Academic Book Reviews --- p.40 / Chapter 3.4 --- Chapter Summary --- p.45 / Chapter Chapter 4 --- Gender in Social Interactions --- p.46 / Chapter 4.1 --- The Distinction between Sex and Gender --- p.46 / Chapter 4.2 --- Language and the Social Construction of Gender --- p.48 / Chapter 4.3 --- Gender in Verbal Interactions --- p.50 / Chapter 4.3.1 --- General findings of gender-preferential differences --- p.50 / Chapter 4.3.2 --- Interpretation of gender-preferential differences --- p.51 / Chapter 4.4 --- Gender in the Academic Context --- p.53 / Chapter 4.4.1 --- Major investigations on gender in academic writing --- p.54 / Chapter 4.4.2 --- Implications of the findings --- p.56 / Chapter 4.5 --- Chapter Summary --- p.57 / Chapter Chapter 5 --- Formulation of Research Questions --- p.58 / Chapter 5.1 --- Summary and Implications of Previous Studies --- p.58 / Chapter 5.2 --- Research Questions --- p.60 / Chapter Chapter 6 --- Theoretical & Methodological Considerations --- p.62 / Chapter 6.1 --- A Corpus-based Approach --- p.62 / Chapter 6.2 --- Data Collection & Organization --- p.64 / Chapter 6.2.1 --- Selection of Disciplines --- p.65 / Chapter 6.2.2 --- Collection of Textual Data for Corpus Compilation --- p.66 / Chapter 6.2.2.1 --- Selection of book reviews --- p.66 / Chapter 6.2.2.2 --- Collection and organization of texts --- p.68 / Chapter 6.2.3 --- Collection of Interview Data --- p.70 / Chapter 6.3 --- Textual Analysis --- p.72 / Chapter 6.3.1 --- Framework of Metadiscourse --- p.72 / Chapter 6.3.2 --- Procedures of Investigations --- p.77 / Chapter 6.3.2.1 --- Concordancing --- p.77 / Chapter 6.3.2.2 --- Test for inter-coder reliability --- p.78 / Chapter 6.4 --- Organization and Interpretation of Data --- p.79 / Chapter 6.5 --- Pilot Study & Preliminary Critiques of Approach --- p.80 / Chapter 6.5.1 --- Materials for Pilot Study --- p.80 / Chapter 6.5.2 --- Evaluation and Revisions Made --- p.81 / Chapter 6.5.3 --- Other Decisions Made --- p.85 / Chapter 6.6 --- Chapter Summary --- p.86 / Chapter Chapter 7 --- Findings & Discussions --- p.87 / Chapter 7.1 --- An Overview of Metadiscourse in Academic Book Reviews --- p.87 / Chapter 7.2 --- The Use of Metadiscourse across Disciplines --- p.92 / Chapter 7.2.1 --- Proportion of Interactional and Interactive Forms --- p.93 / Chapter 7.2.2 --- Distribution of Sub-categories of Metadiscourse across Disciplines --- p.96 / Chapter 7.2.2.1 --- Interactive metadiscourse --- p.96 / Chapter 7.2.2.2 --- Interactional metadiscourse --- p.101 / Chapter 7.3 --- Gender in the Use of Academic Metadiscourse --- p.112 / Chapter 7.3.1 --- An Overview of Gender in the Use of Academic Metadiscourse --- p.112 / Chapter 7.3.2 --- Gender in the Use of Metadiscourse in Individual Disciplines --- p.117 / Chapter 7.3.2.1 --- Philosophy --- p.120 / Chapter 7.3.2.2 --- Sociology --- p.124 / Chapter 7.3.2.3 --- Biology --- p.128 / Chapter 7.4 --- Chapter Summary --- p.132 / Chapter Chapter 8 --- Conclusions --- p.134 / Chapter 8.1 --- A Brief Review of the Study --- p.134 / Chapter 8.2 --- Possible Answers to the Research Questions --- p.137 / Chapter 8.3 --- Implications of the Present Findings --- p.147 / Chapter 8.4 --- Limitations and Suggestions for Future Research --- p.149 / Chapter 8.5 --- Concluding Remarks --- p.153 / Appendices --- p.154 / References --- p.171

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:cuhk.edu.hk/oai:cuhk-dr:cuhk_325323
Date January 2005
ContributorsTse, Po Ting., Chinese University of Hong Kong Graduate School. Division of English.
Source SetsThe Chinese University of Hong Kong
LanguageEnglish, Chinese
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeText, bibliography
Formatprint, viii, 180 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
RightsUse of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons “Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International” License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)

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