LINGUIST List 17.350
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Books: Discourse Analysis:Tognini-Bonelli,Lungo Camicioti
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Strategies in Academic Discourse: Tognini-Bonelli, Del Lungo Camiciotti
Message 1: Strategies in Academic Discourse: Tognini-Bonelli, Del Lungo Camiciotti
Date: 26-Jan-2006
From: Paul Peranteau <paulbenjamins.com>
Subject: Strategies in Academic Discourse: Tognini-Bonelli, Del Lungo Camiciotti
Title: Strategies in Academic Discourse Series Title: Studies in Corpus Linguistics 19
Publication Year: 2005 Publisher: John Benjamins http://www.benjamins.com/
Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=SCL%2019
Editor: Elena Tognini-Bonelli, University of Siena Editor: Gabriella Del Lungo Camiciotti, University of Florence
Hardback: ISBN: 9027222908 Pages: xii, 212 Price: U.S. $ 126.00 Hardback: ISBN: 9027222908 Pages: xii, 212 Price: Europe EURO 105.00
Abstract:
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
Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis Text/Corpus Linguistics
Subject Language(s): English (eng) Japanese (jpn) Spanish (spa)
Written In: English (eng)
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