'The leading journal in its field': Evaluation in journal descriptions

Discourse Studies

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 703-720

  Hyland, Ken ^a   Tse, Polly ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Academic discourse; Evaluation; Genre analysis; Journal description; Moves; Promotion

Indexed keywords

EID: 71649101770     PISSN: 14614456     EISSN: 14617080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461445609347234     Document Type: Article

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