The textographic study examines the academic enculturation experiences of Chinese archaeologists through the lens of their disciplinary writing. The situated genre analysis and multi-case study subsumed under the textography disclosed the immense complexity of the discipline in terms of archaeologists’ texts, practices and identities.
Meng Ge received her PhD from the Faculty of Education, the University of Hong Kong, and is now working as a senior editor at Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, Beijing. Her research interests include disciplinary/academic writing, second language writing and literacy education.