Abstract :
Academic discourse, and especially English academic discourse, has been examined
from a number of theoretical perspectives over the past two decades
in applied linguistics, particularly at the postsecondary level (e.g., Hyland,
2006), socialization being one of the more recent. Basic questions this latter
work addresses are the following: How do newcomers to an academic culture
learn how to participate successfully in the oral and written discourse and
related practices of that discourse community? How are they socialized, explicitly
or implicitly, into these local discursive practices?
