Domain-specific English: Textual Practices Across Communities and ClassroomsGiuseppina Cortese, Philip Riley Domain-specific discourse in English forms a continuum across the academic, professional and technical genres of all areas of knowledge. This collection of papers by scholars working in a variety of disciplines, cultural and institutional contexts forms an analytical and methodological framework for the discussion of a wide range of writing-related issues, problems and practices. The diversity of topics and perspectives represented here - including corpus-based approaches, discourse analysis and contrastive rhetoric, teaching methodology and domain-specific literacy, criticalness, linguistic ascendancy and the emergence of scientific English, identity and social epistemology - attests to the vitality and variety of sociolinguistic research in this complex and rapidly developing field. Contents: Giuseppina Cortese/Philip Riley: Introduction - Philip Riley: Epistemic Communities: The Social Knowledge System, Discourse and Identity - Maurizio Gotti: The Development of English as a Language for Specialized Purposes - Christer Lauren: The Conflict between National Languages and English as the Languages of Arts and Sciences - Christopher N. Candlin/Vijay K. Bhatia/Christian H. Jensen: Must the Worlds Collide? Professional and Academic Discourses in the Study and Practice of Law - Anna Mauranen: « A Good Question. Expressing Evaluation in Academic Speech - Teppo Varttala: Hedging in Scientific Research Articles: A Cross-disciplinary Study - Donna R. Miller: Probing Ways of Meaning in 'Technocratic' Discourse - Stefania Nuccorini: The Role of Dictionaries in Non-native Academic Writing: A Case Study - Maria Luisa Carrio: The Use of Phrasal Verbs by Native and Non-native Writers inTechnical Articles - Tatiana Fedoulenkova: Idioms in Business English: Ways to Cross-cultural Awareness - Paola Giunchi: Information or Misinformation? 'Translating' Medical Research Papers into Web-posted Accounts - Izaskun Elorza: Assessing Translation in Domain-specific Learning Environments: A Study of Textual Variation - Hilkka Stotesbury: A Study of Interpretation in Critical Writing - Joseba M. Gonzalez: In Search of Synergy: Agents Involved and Their Contribution - Giuseppina Cortese: My 'Doxy' Is Not Your 'Doxy': Doing Corpus Linguistics as Collaborative Design. |
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GIUSEPPINA CORTESE PHILIP RILEY | 11 |
Text Worlds Corporate Practices | 20 |
TATIANA FEDOULENKOVA | 28 |
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