... 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 ... 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 ... That form was known as ‘imprimatur’, Latin for ‘let it be printed’. Later, for strategic reasons and for underlining academic network dependence and belonging, ACKs started flourishing in academic...