... structure of ACKs in PhD and MA theses (Hyland, 20 03, 2004; Hyland and Tse, 2004), and, on the other, Giannoni’s cross-linguistic research on ACK behavior in Italian- and English-written research ... Communication (20) 3: 242-268. Hyland, K. (2004) Graduates’ gratitude: The generic structure of dissertation acknowledgments, English for Specific Purposes ( 23) 3: 30 3-24. Hidden influencers and the ... (Ben-Ari, 1987: 137 ), “supercitations” (Edge, 1979: 118), “trusted assessorship in action” (Mullins, 19 73: 32 ) that reflect, on the one hand, sub-author collaboration (Patel, 19 73: 81) and, on the...