Book review: Sunny Hyon, Introducing Genre and English for Specific Purposes

Abstract

including political conflicts, migration, sexual minority, climate change and censorship, which shows their problem orientation and considerable potential for broad application in practice. Despite the few minor flaws mentioned above, the book broadens the field of discourse studies by incorporating absence and silence as a line of inquiry and constitutes a valuable reference for researchers in (critical) discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, pragmatics and political communications.