Using a stance corpus to learn about effective authorial stance-taking: A textlinguistic approach

ReCALL

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 209-236

  Chang, Peichin ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Advanced academic writing; Authorial stance taking; Rhetorical moves; Specialized corpus; Systemic Functional Linguistics; Textlinguistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860726630     PISSN: 09583440     EISSN: 14740109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0958344012000079     Document Type: Article

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