Strategies in academic discourse / edited by Elena Tognini-Bonelli, Gabriella del Lungo Camiciotti.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tognini-Bonelli, Elena.

Del Lungo Camiciotti, Gabriella.

Series:

Studies in corpus linguistics ; v. 19.

Studies in corpus linguistics, 1388-0373 ; v. 19

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discourse analysis--Congresses.

Discourse analysis.

Academic writing--Congresses.

Academic writing.

Physical Description:

xi, 212 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book focuses on theoretical and descriptive issues and techniques 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. The analysis of intertextual features these papers show leads to penetrating results.

Contents:

Strategies in Academic Discourse

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Introduction

References

Conflict and consensus

Value in conflict articles

Attribution in conflict articles

Conclusion

Notes

The conflict corpus

Subjective or objective evaluation?

Academic lectures

Frequencies

Likely

Probably

Conclusions

Aspects of identification and position in intertextual reference in PhD theses

Averral, intertextuality and intratextuality

The corpus

Results of analysis

Conclusions chapters

Authorial presence in academic genres

Data and methodology

Quantitative and qualitative analysis

Results

Results obtained on whole corpora: General tendencies

Context analysis of the correlations between PP, verbal tenses and verb types

Evaluation grids

The Corpus

Works by Deleuze

Works by Macherey

Pragmatic force in biology papers written by British and Japanese scientists

Research questions

Data collection and data analysis

Findings

Common features between British and Japanese papers

Differences between British and Japanese papers

Discussion

Shared use and differences between British and Japanese papers

Conclusion and implications

Evaluation and pragmatic markers

Pragmatic markers and indexicality

Heteroglossia

The multifunctionality of really - an illustration

Really translated by `verkligen'

Really translated by `i själva verket', `egentligen'

Really translated as `faktiskt'

Appendix

Note

References.

``This seems somewhat counterintuitive, though…''

Introduction: Book reviews, evaluation, and gender

The empirical study: Exploring BRILC

The Book Reviews In Linguistics Corpus (BRILC): Design and compilation

Tracing negative evaluative expressions in BRILC

Focussing on negative evaluative adjectives: Adjectival criticism and the value system of linguists

Adjectival criticism and reviewer gender

Hedged adjectival criticism and reviewer gender

Theoretical implications: Rethinking language and gender relations

Conclusion: The need for corpus-driven sociolinguistics

Acknowledgements

Is evaluation structure-bound?

The study

Data

Method of analysis

Move Analysis

Evaluation in the corpus

From corpus to register

Evaluation and argumentation

Mechanisms of attribution and reporting

Voices or participant roles

Moves

Modality and hedging

Retrospective and prospective evaluation - Metadiscourse

Attitudinal lexis

Results and discussion

Corpus

On the boundaries between evaluation and metadiscourse

Language as a string of beads

Academic vocabulary in academic discourse

Academic vocabulary

Two problems: Coverage and the word family

Evaluations - a lexical item?

Frequent phraseological environments of EVALUATION

Evaluation

Evaluate

Evaluates

Evaluated

Evaluating

Evaluations

Evaluation and its discontents

The remit of corpus linguistics

The discourse as a play: Arguments against cognitive interpretations.

Deontic meanings and the speakers' opinions: Arguments against a `real world' interpretation

Do corpus linguists need reality?

Intertextual references

Searching for ideological fingerprints

Enlarging the context: New corpora for intertextuality

Acknowledgments

Notes on contributors

Index

The series Studies in Corpus Linguistics.

Notes:

Papers selected from a conference on evaluation in academic discourse held June, 2003, at the Certosa di Pontignano, Siena.

ISBN:

9786612156243

9781282156241

1282156241

9789027293954

9027293953

OCLC:

237786979