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Bringing in the Reader Addressee Features in Academic Articles
KEN HYLAND
City University of Hong Kong
Increasingly, academic writing is coming to be viewed as a persuasive
endeavor that owes as much to a writer’s development of an
appropriate relationship with his or her readers as the demonstration
of absolute truth, empirical evidence, or flawless logic. A substantial
literature is beginning to show how various linguistic features contribute
to this relationship as writers shape their texts to the expectations
of their audiences (Bazerman, 1988; Hyland, 2000; Swales, 1990).
The central point here is that readers can always refute claims, and
this gives them an active and constitutive role in how writers construct
such claims. Arguments, results, and interpretations need to be
presented in ways that readers are likely to find both credible and persuasive,
and this means writers must draw on familiar ways of
expressing their arguments, representing themselves, and engaging
their audiences. This social constructionist view therefore locates participant
relationships at the heart of academic writing, assuming that
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