Grammatical metaphor and the social genesis of abstraction in the writing of apprentice scholars using English as an additional language
A central feature of written academic discourse is variability in the degrees and functions of abstraction. By means of abstract construals, writers reconfigure direct experiences of the world into abstract, general and technical concepts, compress dynamic reasoning into more stable forms of scholar...
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University of British Columbia
2016
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/59976 |