Writer's stance in disciplinary discourses: a developmental view
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2008
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Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies
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Taylor & Francis
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University of Cape Town
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An approach to writer's stance will differ depending on whether one looks at it from an analytic theoretical perspective or a developmental perspective. This article describes a training activity in the Writing Centre at the University of Cape Town which led the authors to evaluate the concept of writer's stance as used in corpus studies against the way it is used by academic literacy practitioners working in developmental fields. Corpus analysts tend to construct a general and theoretical conceptualisation of writer's stance, while academic literacy practitioners who work in complex developmental fields focus on what actually happens (or needs to happen) when individual readers or writers grapple with texts within particular social environments such as academic disciplines.
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This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies on 12 November 2009, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.2989/SALALS.2008.26.1.9.424.
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Paxton, M., Van Pletzen, E., Archer, A., Arend, M., Chihota, C. 2008. Writer's stance in disciplinary discourses: a developmental view. Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies.