Language, Culture and Identity in Applied Linguistics - Richard Kiely
Who or what is the students’ audience? The discoursal construction of audience identity in undergraduate assignments
Language, Culture and Identity in Applied Linguistics - Richard Kiely
Lynda Griffin [+]
Open University
Lynda Griffi n is an Associate Lecturer with the Faculty of Education and Language Studies at the Open University and an English tutor at a Sixth Form College. Her research interests are in the area of academic writing practices and academic literacy in higher education, audience construction and identity
in writing, discourse analysis and the discoursal construction of writer/reader relationships in student academic writing.
Description
This research reveals that students’ texts contain interesting and often unexpected linguistic strategies, which reveal varied, complex but nevertheless successful encounters between writer and audiences.