Strategies in Academic Discourse.
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 langu...
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| Other Authors / Creators: | Del Lungo Camiciotti, Gabriella. |
| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2005. |
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| Local Note: | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. |
| Online Access: | Click to View |
Table of Contents:
- -1. Prelim pages
- 0. Table of contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Conflict and consensus
- 3. Subjective or objective evaluation?
- 4. Aspects of identification and position in intertextual reference in PhD theses
- 5. Authorial presence in academic genres
- 6. Pragmatic force in biology papers written by British and Japanese scientists
- 7. Evaluation and pragmatic markers
- 8. "This seems somewhat counterintuitive, though"
- 9. Is evaluation structure-bound?
- 10. From corpus to register
- 11. On the boundaries between evaluation and metadiscourse
- 12. Language as a string of beads
- 13. Academic vocabulary in academic discourse
- 14. Evaluation and its discontents
- 15. Notes on contributors
- 16. Index