Commitment-detachment and authorial presence in postgraduate academic writing : a comparative study of Turkish native speakers, Turkish speakers of English and English native speakers

This thesis reports an exploratory and contrastive corpus study examining two phenomena in postgraduate academic writing: expressing commitment/detachment and signalling authorial presence in dissertations. More specifically, the overall purpose of the study is to investigate how postgraduate academ...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Akbas, Erdem
Other Authors: Hardman, Jan
Published: University of York 2014
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.628583