LINGUIST List 21.3354 Fri Aug 20 2010 Books: Pragmatics/Discourse Analysis: Owtram Editor for this issue: Maria Moreno-Rollins <marialinguistlist.org> Links to the websites of all LINGUIST's supporting publishers are available at the end of this issue. Directory         1.    Christian Bieri, The Pragmatics of Academic Writing: Owtram Message 1: The Pragmatics of Academic Writing: Owtram Date: 18-Aug-2010 From: Christian Bieri <publicitypeterlang.com> Subject: The Pragmatics of Academic Writing: Owtram E-mail this message to a friend Title: The Pragmatics of Academic Writing Series Title: Linguistic Insights. Studies in Language and Communication. Vol. 107 Published: 2010 Publisher: Peter Lang AG                 http://www.peterlang.com Book URL: http://www.peterlang.com/Index.cfm?vLang=E&vSiteID=4&vSiteName=BookDetail%2Ecfm&VID=430060 Author: Nicola T. Owtram Paperback: ISBN: 9783034300605 Pages: 311 Price: U.S. $ 78.95 Paperback: ISBN: 9783034300605 Pages: 311 Price: U.K. £ 45.80 Paperback: ISBN: 9783034300605 Pages: 311 Price: Europe EURO 50.90 Comment: for Germany EURO 54.50, for Austria EURO 56.00 (incl. VAT) Abstract: This volume investigates to what extent existing approaches to pragmatics and discourse shed light on how the form of a text creates stylistic effects. Taking a cross-cultural perspective, this book focuses on five key stylistic features of writing - paragraph structure, length and construction of sentences, organisation of information in sentences, relative formality of vocabulary, amount of nominalisation - widely seen as partly responsible for the different impressions created by academic writing in English and Italian. The author develops a theoretical framework for the investigation of intuitions about stylistic differences from a contrastive point of view. To this end, the book gives an overview of recent scholarly approaches to writing and reading, genre studies, contrastive rhetoric and the notions of style and stylistics, together with an assessment of several individual approaches. Contents: - Five areas of cross-cultural variation - Conceptualisations of academic writing - Style manuals: What can they tell us? - Four frameworks and approaches: What can they tell us? - Relevance theory: Comprehension and style - Relevance theory: What insights can it give us? The Author: Nicola T. Owtram is head of the Language Centre at the European University Institute in Florence, where she teaches English for Academic Purposes. She holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics from University College, London. Her research interests lie in the fields of academic writing, comparative stylistics, and cognitive pragmatics. 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