Academic Evaluation: Review Genres in University Settings Book

Acknowledgements vii

Introduction: Academic Evaluation and Review Genres Ken Hyland Giuliana Diani 1

Part I An Overview of Review Genres

1 Negotiating Research Values across Review Genres: A Case Study in Applied Linguistics Davide Simone Giannoni 17

2 Reviewing Science in an Information-Overloaded World Judy Noguchi 34

3 Literature Reviews in Applied PhD Theses: Evidence and Problems Paul Thompson 50

4 Back Cover Blurbs: Puff Pieces and Windows on Cultural Values Helen Basturkmen 68

Part II Disciplinary Variation

5 Reporting and Evaluation in English Book Review Articles: A Cross-Disciplinary Study Giuliana Diani 87

6 Discipline and Gender: Constructing Rhetorical Identity in Book Reviews Polly Tse Ken Hyland 105

7 Phraseology and Epistemology in Academic Book Reviews: A Corpus-Driven Analysis of Two Humanities Disciplines Nicholas Groom 122

Part III Cross-Linguistic Variation

8 (Non-)Critical Voices in the Reviewing of History Discourse: A Cross-Cultural Study of Evaluation Rosa Lorés Sanz 143

9 Academic Book Reviews in English and Spanish: Critical Comments and Rhetorical Structure Ana I. Moreno Lorena Suárez 161

10 Historians at Work: Reporting Frameworks in English and Italian Book Review Articles Marina Bondi 179

Part IV Diachronic Variation

11 On the Dynamic Nature of Genre: A Diachronic Study of Blurbs Maria-Lluïsa Gea-Valor Marta Inigo Ros 199

12 The Lexis and Grammar of Explicit Evaluation in Academic Book Reviews, 1913 and 1993 Philip Shaw 217

Notes on Contributors 236

Name Index 239

Subject Index 243