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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"metadiscourses"”.
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No ELA Without Ella: Understanding the Naming and Crafting of Gendered Subjectivities in Puerto Rico
… the beginning of the 20th century, the official metadiscourses about gendered job titles sedimented the idea that names or indexes pointing to women should be interpreted as unskilled, cheap, or even free labor in Puerto Rico (Azize, 1985; Muñiz Mas, 1998; Baerga-Santini, 1999). For this reason, …
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Academic Women and the Institutionalisation of English at the University of Cambridge, 1898-1938
… studies, the project aims to complicate existing metadiscourses and histories of English. Moving away from polemicising and towards a more nuanced, practice-focused and archive-led approach facilitates the inclusion of women scholars and centres their own writing. This provides a greater insight …
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Communication in the Sciences: Genre and Gender Differences in Scientific Writing
With the rapid evolution of technology and its impact on society, scientific literacy is increasingly important. This study examines two major genres of scientific writing: academic journal articles and popular science magazine articles. The first aim is to improve the efficacy of writing in the …