Polly Tse
Biographic Data
| ID | 128384 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Polly Tse |
| GIVEN NAMES | Polly |
| FAMILY NAME | Tse |
| SIGNATURE | TSE P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8846-3680 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Metaphysical idealism revisited
The aim of this paper is to offer a general survey of the latest development of metaphysical idealism in contemporary Anglo-American philosophy. It consists of five main parts. The first part is a short introduction, it states the position of idealism and its current status in the Anglophone world. The second part focuses on the negative programme of idealism, which challenges physicalism on the problem of matter (2.1) and the problem of consciou…
Claiming a territory: Relative clauses in journal descriptions
The leading journal in its field: Evaluation in Journal Descriptions
Evaluation, as the expression of a writer’s attitudes, opinions and values, has become a key term in discourse studies in recent years and has proved to be a particularly fruitful way of analysing academic texts. But while studies have shown the importance of evaluation in research genres, its role in seemingly more promotional academic genres has been largely neglected. This article examines the journal description (JD), a brief but ubiquitous f…
Robot Kung fu’: Gender and professional identity in biology and philosophy reviews
Is There an “Academic Vocabulary”
This article considers the notion of academic vocabulary : the assumption that students of English for academic purposes (EAP) should study a core of high frequency words because they are common in an English academic register. We examine the value of the term by using Coxhead's (2000) Academic Word List (AWL) to explore the distribution of its 570 word families in a corpus of 3.3 million words from a range of academic disciplines and genres. The…
Hooking the reader: A corpus study of evaluative that in abstracts
Evaluative that constructions: Signalling stance in research abstracts
The study of interpersonal features of academic texts, through which writers evaluate their material and engage their readers, has been one of the most productive areas of discourse studies of the past decade. Scholarly writing involves adopting a position and persuading readers of claims, and the linguistic resources used to achieve these goals have been described in terms of evaluation , stance and metadiscourse . A relatively overlooked interp…
Is There an “Academic Vocabulary”
This article considers the notion of academic vocabulary : the assumption that students of English for academic purposes (EAP) should study a core of high frequency words because they are common in an English academic register. We examine the value of the term by using Coxhead's (2000) Academic Word List (AWL) to explore the distribution of its 570 word families in a corpus of 3.3 million words from a range of academic disciplines and genres. The…
Robot Kung fu’: Gender and professional identity in biology and philosophy reviews
Claiming a territory: Relative clauses in journal descriptions
Hooking the reader: A corpus study of evaluative that in abstracts
Evaluative that constructions: Signalling stance in research abstracts
The study of interpersonal features of academic texts, through which writers evaluate their material and engage their readers, has been one of the most productive areas of discourse studies of the past decade. Scholarly writing involves adopting a position and persuading readers of claims, and the linguistic resources used to achieve these goals have been described in terms of evaluation , stance and metadiscourse . A relatively overlooked interp…
Robot Kung fu’: Gender and professional identity in biology and philosophy reviews
Is There an “Academic Vocabulary”
This article considers the notion of academic vocabulary : the assumption that students of English for academic purposes (EAP) should study a core of high frequency words because they are common in an English academic register. We examine the value of the term by using Coxhead's (2000) Academic Word List (AWL) to explore the distribution of its 570 word families in a corpus of 3.3 million words from a range of academic disciplines and genres. The…
The leading journal in its field: Evaluation in Journal Descriptions
Evaluation, as the expression of a writer’s attitudes, opinions and values, has become a key term in discourse studies in recent years and has proved to be a particularly fruitful way of analysing academic texts. But while studies have shown the importance of evaluation in research genres, its role in seemingly more promotional academic genres has been largely neglected. This article examines the journal description (JD), a brief but ubiquitous f…
Claiming a territory: Relative clauses in journal descriptions
Metaphysical idealism revisited
The aim of this paper is to offer a general survey of the latest development of metaphysical idealism in contemporary Anglo-American philosophy. It consists of five main parts. The first part is a short introduction, it states the position of idealism and its current status in the Anglophone world. The second part focuses on the negative programme of idealism, which challenges physicalism on the problem of matter (2.1) and the problem of consciou…
Linguistics (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Academic writing (3 works) · Genre analysis (3 works) · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis (3 works) · Metadiscourse (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)