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Addressing the issue of fragmentation in academic English language research, this book takes a holistic approach to the areas of knowledge that converge within academic discourse and texts. The authors argue that this convergence integrates three knowledge areas of a disciplinary community: its social processes, epistemology, and discursive practices. Going beyond the narrower focus of much previous theory and research, the volume advocates an original and integrated approach to the multifaceted nature of the academic language and literacy practices of universities. The book is divided into two parts. Part 1 examines the context of contemporary universities and the broader influences that shape academic language use. Part 2 explores disciplinarity and the three dimensions that together shape academic language: social, epistemological, and discursive. The authors then present an innovative and integrated model of the three dimensions and use it to examine language from social science and STEM subjects. A concluding manifesto argues for an integrative, reflexive and ethical approach to researching academic language. This volume is of interest to anyone concerned with understanding, analysing, and teaching the academic language of universities as it is used for study or research publication purposes.

Table of Contents:
List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The Socio-Economic Environment of Contemporary Higher Education 2. Universities, Knowledge, and its Communication 3. Ethics 4. Interlude: Theorizing Our Position and Purpose 5. Disciplines and Interdisciplinarity 6. Disciplinary Social Influences and Academic Communication 7. Disciplines and Epistemology 8. Disciplines, Discourse and Text 9. The Intersecting Elements of Academic Communication: A Model 10. Implementation of the Model: Investigating Research Communication in Two Disciplines 11. Manifesto: Academic Communication and Future Directions References Index

About the Author :
Ian Bruce is Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. Alex Ding is Associate Professor of English for Academic Purposes at the University of Leeds, UK.

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A comprehensive, insightful, and far-reaching account of academic communication that offers a multiperspective and at the same time, a multidimensional view of how to integrate genre, disciplinary culture and actual practice, adding a unique perspective to a bourgeoning literature in the field. In this era of increasing precarity with ongoing neo-liberalizations of universities echoing the broader capitalist society causing detrimental rises of stress and alienation among educators and students due to marketizations of standardized education, this book brilliantly addresses how academic communication is being manipulated and distorted to prevent truthful knowledge.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781350469549
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 256
  • Width: 156 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1350469548
  • Publisher Date: 22 Jan 2026
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: The Intersection of Social, Epistemological and Discursive Knowledge in Academic Communication


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