Strategies in Academic Discourse
Published on 21. December 2005
Book
Hardback
212 pages
978-90-272-2290-9 (ISBN)
Description
This book focuses on theoretical and descriptive issues and techniques in the study of text and discourse. Drawing on a large number of corpora containing academic language, from spoken language to published research papers, the authors approach their subject from multiple angles: The academic language of biology, literature, philosophy, economics, agriculture, linguistics and applied linguistics. The analysis of intertextual features these papers show leads to penetrating results.
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English General Nouns has greatly contributed to the endeavour of describing meaning through an analysis of noun forms. Since the corpus-driven methodology in this study is followed by a theoretical approach to the analysis of the data, the human researcher becomes an integral part of the equation highlighting language use in its social context. The choices that were made regarding data selection and analysis could arguably be relevant to the purpose of this study. English General Nouns is, therefore, a refreshing presentation of an alternative methodology within corpus linguistics which offers insights into additional research methods. -- Erik Voss, Iowa State University, in Corpora 3(2): 237-230, 2008More details
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 164 mm
Weight
550 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-2290-9 (9789027222909)
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Elena Tognini-Bonelli | Gabriella Del Lungo Camiciotti
Strategies in Academic Discourse
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Content
1. Introduction (by Tognini-Bonelli, Elena); 2. Conflict and consensus: Construing opposition in Applied Linguistics (by Hunston, Susan); 3. Subjective or objective evaluation?: Prediction in academic lectures (by Bamford, Julia); 4. Aspects of identification and position in intertextual reference in PhD theses (by Thompson, Paul); 5. Authorial presence in academic genres (by Poudat, Celine); 6. Pragmatic force in biology papers written by British and Japanese scientists (by Okamura, Akiko); 7. Evaluation and pragmatic markers (by Aijmer, Karin); 8. "This seems somewhat counterintuitive, though...": Negative evaluation in linguistic book reviews by male and female authors (by Romer, Ute); 9. Is evaluation structure-bound?: An English-Spanish contrastive study of book reviews (by Suarez-Tejerina, Lorena); 10. From corpus to register: The construction of evaluation and argumentation in linguistics textbooks (by Freddi, Maria); 11. On the boundaries between evaluation and metadiscourse (by Adel, Annelie); 12. Language as a string of beads: Discourse and the M-word (by Sinclair, John McH.); 13. Academic vocabulary in academic discourse: The phraseological behaviour of EVALUATION in Economics research articles (by Oakey, David); 14. Evaluation and its discontents (by Teubert, Wolfgang); 15. Notes on contributors; 16. Index