This book focuses on theoretical and descriptive issues and technique 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 language of biology, literature, philosophy, economics, agriculture, linguistics and applied linguistics. In the analysis of intertextual features these papers show leads to penetrating results.

Table of contents

Introduction Elena Tognini-Bonelli vii–xi Conflict and consensus: Construing opposition in Applied Linguistics Susan Hunston 1–15 Subjective or objective evaluation? Prediction in academic lectures Julia Bamford 17–29 Aspects of identification and position in intertextual reference in PhD theses Paul Thompson 31–50 Authorial presence in academic genres Céline Poudat and Sylvain Loiseau 51–68 Pragmatic force in biology papers written by British and Japanese scientists Akiko Okamura 69–82 Evaluation and pragmatic markers Karin Aijmer 83–96 "This seems somewhat counterintuitive, though…": Negative evaluation in linguistic book reviews by male and female authors Ute Römer 97–115 Is evaluation structure-bound? An English-Spanish contrastive study of book reviews Lorena Suárez-Tejerina 117–132 From corpus to register: The construction of evaluation and argumentation in linguistics textbooks Maria Freddi 133–151 On the boundaries between evaluation and metadiscourse Annelie Ädel 153–162 Language as a string of beads: Discourse and the M-word John McH. Sinclair 163–168 Academic vocabulary in academic discourse: The phraseological behaviour of EVALUATION in Economics research articles David Oakey 169–183 Evaluation and its discontents Wolfgang Teubert 185–204 Notes on contributors 205–207 Index 209–212