LINGUIST List 22.190 Tue Jan 11 2011 Books: Discourse Analysis/Sociolinguistics/Text/Corpus Linguistics: Peng Editor for this issue: Fatemeh Abdollahi <fatemehlinguistlist.org> Links to the websites of all LINGUIST's supporting publishers are available at the end of this issue. Directory         1.     Christian Bieri , Chinese PhD thesis acknowledgements: Peng Message 1: Chinese PhD thesis acknowledgements: Peng Date: 22-Dec-2010 From: Christian Bieri <publicitypeterlang.com> Subject: Chinese PhD thesis acknowledgements: Peng E-mail this message to a friend Title: Chinese PhD thesis acknowledgements Subtitle: A communities of practice perspective Series Title: Europäische Hochschulschriften - Volume 464 Published: 2010 Publisher: Peter Lang AG                 http://www.peterlang.com Author: Hua Peng Paperback: ISBN: 9783034305679 Pages: 271 Price: U.S. $ 70.95 Paperback: ISBN: 9783034305679 Pages: 271 Price: U.K. £ 41.20 Paperback: ISBN: 9783034305679 Pages: 271 Price: Europe EURO 45.80 Comment: for Germany EURO 49.00, for Austria EURO 50.40 (incl. VAT) Abstract: While there is a comparatively rich research literature on English acknowledgement texts, research into Chinese PhD thesis acknowledgement texts, especially the social roles of the texts, has received little attention. To fill this gap, this book examines a corpus of Chinese PhD thesis acknowledgement texts in order to explore both the typical structure of the texts and their social function within the particular university setting as well as within a broader social context. The author uses stratified purposive sampling and semi-structured text-based interviews with PhD graduates, their supervisors and other acknowledgee representatives to gather data. Furthermore, PhD guidebooks, supervisors' CVs and graduates' publications have been collected. Three theoretical notions - communities of practice, audience and politeness - are drawn into account for the findings of the study. Besides uncovering several undocumented move patterns, the book offers insightful understanding of acknowledgement texts both as a part-genre of research writing as well as a window of the textual and social world of PhD graduates' chorus of gratitude. Contents: Acknowledgement texts across languages and disciplines - Textual realizations of social roles of acknowledgement texts - Generic structure - Sequence of acknowledges - Terms of address - Disciplinary culture in Chinese university setting - A communities of practice view of audience - A communities of practice view of politeness Hua Peng is a lecturer at the School of Foreign Languages and Literature, Fudan University, P.R. China. She received her MA at Fudan University and EdD degree at the University of Sydney. Her research interest is in the area of sociolinguistics, EFL learning and teaching professionalism. She is currently working on the genre-based analysis of EFL learners' electronic discourse and EFL learning from a communities of practice perspective. Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis                             Sociolinguistics                             Text/Corpus Linguistics Subject Language(s): Chinese, Mandarin (cmn) Written In: English (eng ) See this book announcement on our website: http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=52412 Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue -------------------------- Major Supporters -------------------------- Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd http://www.continuumbooks.com De Gruyter Mouton http://www.degruyter.com/mouton Edinburgh University Press http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk/ Elsevier Ltd http://www.elsevier.com/linguistics Equinox Publishing Ltd http://www.equinoxpub.com/ John Benjamins http://www.benjamins.com/ Multilingual Matters http://www.multilingual-matters.com/ Palgrave Macmillan http://www.palgrave.com ---------------------- Other Supporting Publishers ---------------------- Page Updated: 11-Jan-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.