What is abstract rhetors?

[niepengli]

Thank you !


This ia a term from Hyland 2000( Disciplinary Discourses: Social Interactions In Academic Writing.London:Longman.)I find the term in another paper with this reference.
But I need to know it in details.Could you do me this favour?

 

[oscar3]

回复：What is abstract rhetors?

By abstract rhetors, we mean the use of impersonalization such as ‘The results show that ...’. 'The findings suggest...'. By reader-in-the-text strategies, we mean constructions such as ‘It might be thought that ...’or 'Most people believe that...'. That is, the writer constructs a reader-in-the text with sets of shared attitudes and knowledge so that it does not appear that the writer is presupposing ideas which might be unacceptable for the real reader.

 

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