This book explores the structure and use of academic and professional discourse through the lens of corpus linguistics. The goal of this book is to show how insights from corpus linguistic analyses can help us better understand how we use academic and professional language and help us find ways to better train newcomers to the genres used in various professional contexts. The contributions to this book show that specialized corpora of specific genres from a variety of fields allow us to make more relevant observations about the function and use of language for particular purposes. The specialized corpora examined include written and spoken academic genres, written and spoken business and legal genres, and written philanthropic genres. The book showcases a variety of approaches to analyzing the discourse of specialized corpora, and each chapter concludes with a reflection on the practical and pedagogical implications of the analysis. Table of contentsIntroduction Ulla Connor and Thomas A. Upton 1–8The argument for using English specialized corpora to understand academic and professional language Lynne Flowerdew 11-33Stylistic features of academic speech: The role of formulaic expressions Rita Simpson 37-64Academic language: An exploration of university classroom and textbook language Randi Reppen 65-86A convincing argument: Corpus analysis and academic persuasion Ken Hyland 87-112 // so what have YOU been WORking on REcently //: Compiling a specialized corpus of spoken business English Martin Warren 115-140TOOK // did you // from the miniBAR //: What is the practical relevance of a corpus-driven language study to practitioners in Hong Kong's hotel industry? Winnie Cheng 141-166 "Invisible to us": A preliminary corpus-based study of spoken business English Michael McCarthy and Michael Handford 167-201Legal discourse: Opportunities and threats for corpus linguistics Vijay K. Bhatia 203-231The genre of grant proposals: A corpus linguistic analysis Ulla Connor and Thomas A. Upton 235-255Rhetorical appeals in fundraising direct mail letters Ulla Connor and Kostya Gladkov 257-286Framing matters: Communicating relationships through metaphor in fundraising textsElizabeth M. Goering 287-306Pronouns and metadiscourse as interpersonal rhetorical devices in fundraising letters: A corpus linguistic analysisAvon Crismore 307-330Index 331-333