
Academic posters
A textual and visual metadiscourse analysis
Larissa D'Angelo(Author)
Peter Lang Verlag
1st Edition
Published on 23. February 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
367 pages
978-3-0343-2083-2 (ISBN)
Description
This volume presents a cross-disciplinary analysis of academic poster presentations, taking into consideration the text and visuals that posters display depending on the discipline within which they are created. As the academic poster is a multimodal genre, different modal aspects have been taken into consideration when analysing it, a fact that has somehow complicated the genre analysis conducted, but has also stimulated the research work involved and, in the end, provided interesting results.
The analysis carried out here has highlighted significant cross-disciplinary differences in terms of word count, portrait/landscape orientation and layout of posters, as well as discipline and subdiscipline-specific patterns for what concerns the use of textual interactive and interactional metadiscourse resources and visual interactive resources.
The investigation has revealed what textual and visual metadiscourse resources are employed, where and why, and as a consequence, what textual and visual metadiscourse strategies should be adopted by poster authors depending on the practices and expectations of their academic community.
The analysis carried out here has highlighted significant cross-disciplinary differences in terms of word count, portrait/landscape orientation and layout of posters, as well as discipline and subdiscipline-specific patterns for what concerns the use of textual interactive and interactional metadiscourse resources and visual interactive resources.
The investigation has revealed what textual and visual metadiscourse resources are employed, where and why, and as a consequence, what textual and visual metadiscourse strategies should be adopted by poster authors depending on the practices and expectations of their academic community.
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Bern
Switzerland
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 22.5 cm
Width: 15 cm
Weight
540 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-0343-2083-2 (9783034320832)
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Larissa D'Angelo, PhD in Applied Linguistics (University of Reading), is a Lecturer of English at the University of Bergamo. Her main research interests deal with EAP and multimodal genres employed in academic discourse. She is an active member of the Research Centre on Languages for Specific Purposes (CERLIS) and has been involved in several national and international research projects.
Content
Contents: Review of the literature - Data collected - Framework of analysis - Results and analysis by subcorpora - General discussion and conclusions.