Feng Kevin Jiang
Biographic Data
| ID | 8667494 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Feng Kevin Jiang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Feng Kevin |
| FAMILY NAME | Jiang |
| SIGNATURE | JIANG F K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Jilin University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The rhetorical legacy of John Swales
This paper explores the enduring influence of John Swales on applied linguistics, focusing on how his distinctive authorial style, particularly his use of metadiscourse, contributed to the persuasive power of his scholarship. While Swales is widely celebrated for his theoretical innovations in genre analysis, discourse community, and English for Academic Purposes, we argue that his rhetorical style was of major importance in promoting his ideas a…
Stance in REF Submissions
The Research Excellence Framework (REF) is the U.K. government’s means of allocating funding to universities based on assessments of the research they produce. Conducted every five years, this exercise now includes not only the ‘quality’ of research but also its real-world ‘impact’. This helps determine the £7.16 billion distributed annually to universities and influences the reputations of institutions and academics. Writers are therefore keen t…
Teaching English with Chinese characteristics
English language teaching has had a chequered history in China, reflecting an increasing desire to modernise and participate on the world stage combined with a watchful caution against importing unwanted cultural elements. Change, however, has proceeded rapidly in the last 35 years, and China now provides around 700,000 postgraduate students annually to Western universities. Given this importance to western universities and the concerns surroundi…
Taking a stance
The rapid rise of ChatGPT has generated considerable anxiety among teachers concerned that students might turn to large language models to write their assignments. This AI-powered language model is able to create grammatically accurate and coherent texts, thus potentially enabling cheating and undermining literacy and critical thinking skills. While research has begun to examine linguistic and rhetorical differences between AI-generated and human…
Rhetorical evolution in mathematical modelling
EAP in a changing world
Does ChatGPT Argue Like Students? Bundles in Argumentative Essays
The advent of ChatGPT, a novel AI-powered language model able to create grammatically accurate and coherent texts, has generated considerable concern among educationalists anxious about its potential to enable cheating among students and to undermine the development of critical thinking, problem-solving, and literacy skills. The similarities and differences between ChatGPT texts and human writing, however, remain underexplored. This study aims to…
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Discourse Analysis
Central to applied linguistics, discourse analysis explores how language works in relation to particular social contexts, revealing the way meanings are conveyed, relationships established, and interactions managed, so mediates between linguistics and language use (Hyland 2013). All these are essential for developing effective communication strategies in various fields like education, business, and social services, but the rapid development of co…
Hype and the manufacture of impact in REF submissions
This paper examines the use of hyperbolic and promotional language, or ‘hype’, in the impact case studies submitted to the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF), a major research evaluation exercise for UK higher education institutions. With substantial funding and institutional reputations at stake, REF submissions are high-stakes texts that may incentivize rhetorical embellishment to demonstrate research impact. We conducted a corpus-based a…
Scholarly discourse
English for Research and Publication Purposes (ERPP) has rapidly emerged as a productive area of second language writing research as the number of academics, journals and articles has exploded across the world. In this paper we use bibliometric methods to track changes in published work in ERPP over the last 40 years. Based on all 4,354 articles on the topic in Web of Science indexed journals between 1982 and 2022, we show what research themes ha…
Epistemic positioning by science students and experts
It is one of the concerns of EAP to bridge the disparity of discursive practice between novice and expert writers, but the comparison is largely made across a broad knowledge field and little is known about the likely divergence within a disciplinary divide. In this study, we explore the epistemic positioning in research writing by PhD students and expert writers across applied and pure science disciplines. By focusing on hedges and boosters as i…
Bundles in advanced EAL authors’ articles
With increasing numbers of scholars from around the world now engaged in international publishing to further their careers, many authors for whom English is not their first language worry about the acceptability of their language to journal editors. In this article we explore this issue by focusing on a key component of fluent academic writing: the high frequency fixed‐word collocations known as lexical bundles, strings which are ‘glued together’…
Ken Hyland and Lillian C. Wong
Ken Hyland and Lillian C. Wong: Specialised English: New Directions in ESP and EAP Research and Practice Ken Hyland and Lillian C. Wong: Specialised English: New Directions in ESP and EAP Research and Practice. Routledge, 2019. Luda Liu, Luda Liu School of Foreign Language Education, Jilin University, China Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Feng (Kevin) Jiang Feng (Kevin) Jiang School of Foreign Language Edu…
‘The goal of this analysis …’
Points of Reference
In this article we explore the ways in which academic citation practices have changed over the past 50 years. Based on the analysis of a corpus of 2.2 million words from the same leading journals in four disciplines in 1965, 1985, and 2015, we document a substantial rise in citations over the period, particularly in applied linguistics and sociology. This is partly because there is now so much more research to report and that recognizing previous…
“There are significant differences…”
“In this paper we suggest”
Is academic writing becoming more informal?
“We must conclude that…”
Change of Attitude? A Diachronic Study of Stance
Successful research writers construct texts by taking a novel point of view toward the issues they discuss while anticipating readers’ imagined reactions to those views. This intersubjective positioning is encompassed by the term stance and, in various guises, has been a topic of interest to researchers of written communication and applied linguists for the past three decades. Recognizing that academic writing is less objective and “author evacua…
Nouns and Academic Interactions
Metadiscourse has received considerable attention in recent years as a way of understanding the rhetorical negotiations involved in academic writing. But while a useful tool in revealing something of the dynamic interactions which underlie persuasive claim making, it has little to say about the role of nouns in this process. We address this gap by exploring the rhetorical functions of what we call metadiscursive nouns (such as fact, analysis, bel…
Douglas Biber and Bethany Gray
Journal Article Douglas Biber and Bethany Gray: Grammatical Complexity in Academic English: Linguistic Change in Writing Get access Douglas Biber and Bethany Gray: Grammatical Complexity in Academic English: Linguistic Change in Writing. Cambridge University Press, 2016. Feng (Kevin) Jiang Feng (Kevin) Jiang Centre for Applied English Studies (CAES), Hong Kong University, Hong Kong, China E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this a…
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“We must conclude that…”
Change of Attitude? A Diachronic Study of Stance
Successful research writers construct texts by taking a novel point of view toward the issues they discuss while anticipating readers’ imagined reactions to those views. This intersubjective positioning is encompassed by the term stance and, in various guises, has been a topic of interest to researchers of written communication and applied linguists for the past three decades. Recognizing that academic writing is less objective and “author evacua…
Nouns and Academic Interactions
Metadiscourse has received considerable attention in recent years as a way of understanding the rhetorical negotiations involved in academic writing. But while a useful tool in revealing something of the dynamic interactions which underlie persuasive claim making, it has little to say about the role of nouns in this process. We address this gap by exploring the rhetorical functions of what we call metadiscursive nouns (such as fact, analysis, bel…
Douglas Biber and Bethany Gray
Journal Article Douglas Biber and Bethany Gray: Grammatical Complexity in Academic English: Linguistic Change in Writing Get access Douglas Biber and Bethany Gray: Grammatical Complexity in Academic English: Linguistic Change in Writing. Cambridge University Press, 2016. Feng (Kevin) Jiang Feng (Kevin) Jiang Centre for Applied English Studies (CAES), Hong Kong University, Hong Kong, China E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this a…
Is academic writing becoming more informal?
“In this paper we suggest”
Points of Reference
In this article we explore the ways in which academic citation practices have changed over the past 50 years. Based on the analysis of a corpus of 2.2 million words from the same leading journals in four disciplines in 1965, 1985, and 2015, we document a substantial rise in citations over the period, particularly in applied linguistics and sociology. This is partly because there is now so much more research to report and that recognizing previous…
“There are significant differences…”
‘The goal of this analysis …’
Ken Hyland and Lillian C. Wong
Ken Hyland and Lillian C. Wong: Specialised English: New Directions in ESP and EAP Research and Practice Ken Hyland and Lillian C. Wong: Specialised English: New Directions in ESP and EAP Research and Practice. Routledge, 2019. Luda Liu, Luda Liu School of Foreign Language Education, Jilin University, China Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Feng (Kevin) Jiang Feng (Kevin) Jiang School of Foreign Language Edu…
Bundles in advanced EAL authors’ articles
With increasing numbers of scholars from around the world now engaged in international publishing to further their careers, many authors for whom English is not their first language worry about the acceptability of their language to journal editors. In this article we explore this issue by focusing on a key component of fluent academic writing: the high frequency fixed‐word collocations known as lexical bundles, strings which are ‘glued together’…
Epistemic positioning by science students and experts
It is one of the concerns of EAP to bridge the disparity of discursive practice between novice and expert writers, but the comparison is largely made across a broad knowledge field and little is known about the likely divergence within a disciplinary divide. In this study, we explore the epistemic positioning in research writing by PhD students and expert writers across applied and pure science disciplines. By focusing on hedges and boosters as i…
Does ChatGPT Argue Like Students? Bundles in Argumentative Essays
The advent of ChatGPT, a novel AI-powered language model able to create grammatically accurate and coherent texts, has generated considerable concern among educationalists anxious about its potential to enable cheating among students and to undermine the development of critical thinking, problem-solving, and literacy skills. The similarities and differences between ChatGPT texts and human writing, however, remain underexplored. This study aims to…
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Discourse Analysis
Central to applied linguistics, discourse analysis explores how language works in relation to particular social contexts, revealing the way meanings are conveyed, relationships established, and interactions managed, so mediates between linguistics and language use (Hyland 2013). All these are essential for developing effective communication strategies in various fields like education, business, and social services, but the rapid development of co…
Hype and the manufacture of impact in REF submissions
This paper examines the use of hyperbolic and promotional language, or ‘hype’, in the impact case studies submitted to the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF), a major research evaluation exercise for UK higher education institutions. With substantial funding and institutional reputations at stake, REF submissions are high-stakes texts that may incentivize rhetorical embellishment to demonstrate research impact. We conducted a corpus-based a…
Scholarly discourse
English for Research and Publication Purposes (ERPP) has rapidly emerged as a productive area of second language writing research as the number of academics, journals and articles has exploded across the world. In this paper we use bibliometric methods to track changes in published work in ERPP over the last 40 years. Based on all 4,354 articles on the topic in Web of Science indexed journals between 1982 and 2022, we show what research themes ha…
The rhetorical legacy of John Swales
This paper explores the enduring influence of John Swales on applied linguistics, focusing on how his distinctive authorial style, particularly his use of metadiscourse, contributed to the persuasive power of his scholarship. While Swales is widely celebrated for his theoretical innovations in genre analysis, discourse community, and English for Academic Purposes, we argue that his rhetorical style was of major importance in promoting his ideas a…
Stance in REF Submissions
The Research Excellence Framework (REF) is the U.K. government’s means of allocating funding to universities based on assessments of the research they produce. Conducted every five years, this exercise now includes not only the ‘quality’ of research but also its real-world ‘impact’. This helps determine the £7.16 billion distributed annually to universities and influences the reputations of institutions and academics. Writers are therefore keen t…
Teaching English with Chinese characteristics
English language teaching has had a chequered history in China, reflecting an increasing desire to modernise and participate on the world stage combined with a watchful caution against importing unwanted cultural elements. Change, however, has proceeded rapidly in the last 35 years, and China now provides around 700,000 postgraduate students annually to Western universities. Given this importance to western universities and the concerns surroundi…
Taking a stance
The rapid rise of ChatGPT has generated considerable anxiety among teachers concerned that students might turn to large language models to write their assignments. This AI-powered language model is able to create grammatically accurate and coherent texts, thus potentially enabling cheating and undermining literacy and critical thinking skills. While research has begun to examine linguistic and rhetorical differences between AI-generated and human…
Rhetorical evolution in mathematical modelling
EAP in a changing world
Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (17 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Linguistics (14 works) · Psychology (14 works) · Computer Science (12 works) · Rhetorical question (11 works) · Academic writing (9 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Second Language Acquisition and Learning (9 works) · Social science (6 works)