Site Search

Professor Ken Hyland

Education: PhD in Applied Linguistics

Affiliation: University of East Anglia, UK

Address:

School of Education and Lifelong Learning

University of East Anglia

Norwich NR4 7TJ

England

Phone: +44

Fax: +44

Mobile: +44

Email: K.Hyland@uea.ac.uk

Web: http://www2.caes.hku.hk/kenhyland/


Vita

Ken Hyland is an Honorary Professor at the University of East Anglia. After graduating with a degree in Sociology from the University of Warwick, Ken Hyland went overseas to teach English. He first worked as a volunteer in the Sudan, and then taught in Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand and Hong Kong, gaining an MA and a PhD along the way. After nine years at Lingnan and City University in Hong Kong, he was offered a professorship at the University of London, where he directed the Centre for Academic and Professional Literacies at the Institute of Education for six years. He returned to Hong Kong in 2009 to head CAES for 8 years then moved to the University of East Anglia in the UK. Ken formally retired in 2017 and is now an Honorary Professor at the Universities of East Anglia and Jilin, China.

He has published over 300 articles and 30 books on writing and academic discourse with 89,000 citations on Google Scholar. According to the Stanford/Elsevier analysis of the Scopus database, he is the most influential scholar in language and linguistics in the world (2022 and 2023). A collection of some of his most influential work, The Essential Hyland, was published in 2018 by Bloomsbury. He is the Editor of two book series with Routledge and Bloomsbury, is a visiting professor at Jilin University and a Foundation Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities. He was founding co-editor of the Journal of English for Academic Purposes and co-editor of Applied Linguistics.

Selected Publications

Hyland, K. (1994). Hedging in academic writing and EAP textbooks. English for Specific Purposes, 13(3), 239-256.
Hyland, K. (1996). Writing without conviction? Hedging in science research articles. Applied Linguistics, 17, 433-454.
Hyland, K. (1998). Hedging in scientific research articles. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
Hyland, K. (1999). Disciplinary discourses: Writer stance in research articles. In C. Candlin & K. Hyland (Eds.), Writing: Texts, processes and practices (pp. 99-121). Longman.
Hyland, K. (2000). Disciplinary discourses: Social interactions in academic writing. Longman.
Hyland, K. (2001). Bringing in the reader: Addressee features in academic articles. Written Communication, 18(4), 549-74.
Hyland, K. (2004). Disciplinary interactions: Metadiscourse in L2 postgraduate writing. Journal of Second Language Writing, 13, 133-51.
Hyland, K. (2005). Metadiscourse: Exploring interaction in writing. Continuum.
Hyland, K., & Milton, J. (1997). Hedging in Ll and L2 student writing. Journal of Second Language Writing, 6(2), 183-206.
Hyland, K., & Tse, P. (2004). Metadiscourse in academic writing: A reappraisal. Applied Linguistics, 25(2), 156-77.

BACK TO TOP