Ian Bruce, Alex Ding

Language, Knowledge and Society in Higher Education

The Intersection of Social, Epistemological and Discursive Knowledge in Academic Communication

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Offers a theoretical model of academic language that encompasses holistically its social, epistemological and discursive dimensions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Januar 2026
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781350469549
• ISBN-10: 1350469548
• Artikelnr.: 74859874

Autorenporträt

Ian Bruce is Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand.

Inhaltsangabe

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