Dialogue, science and academic writing / Zohar Livnat.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Livnat, Zohar.

Series:

Dialogue studies ; v. 13.

Dialogue studies (DS) ; v. 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dialogue analysis.

Technical writing.

Academic writing.

Rhetoric.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (222 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book investigates the dialogic nature of research articles from the perspective of discourse analysis, based on theories of dialogicity. It proposes a theoretical and applied framework for the understanding and exploration of scientific dialogicity. Focusing on some dialogic components, among them citations, concession, inclusive we and interrogatives, a combined model of scientific dialogicity is proposed, that reflects the place and role of various linguistic structures against the background of various theoretical approaches to dialogicity. Taking this combined model

Contents:

Dialogue, Science and Academic Writing; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Purpose and structure of the study; 1.2 Corpus and methodology; 2. Approaches to dialogicity; 2.1 Dialogism and intertextuality: A discursive-literary approach; 2.2 Language as dialogue: A communicative approach; 2.3 Voices in the text: A linguistic approach; 2.4 The speaker and his audience: An argumentative approach; 2.5 Conclusions; 3. Academic discourse as persuasion; 3.2 The persuasive goals of research articles; 3.3 Degrees of facticity

3.4 Argumentation, facticity, time: Three parallel lines4. The dialogic dimension of academic discourse; 4.1 Towards a new model of scientific dialogicity; 4.2 Citations; 4.2.1 Patterns of citations; 4.2.2 Authenticity and responsibility; 4.2.3 The rhetoric of citations; 4.3 Concession; 4.3.1 Introduction; 4.3.2 The rhetoric of concession; 4.3.3 Concession as dialogue; 4.4 Inclusive we; 4.4.1 First-person pronouns; 4.4.2 First-person plural in Hebrew; 4.4.3 Inclusive we as dialogue; 4.5 Questions; 4.5.1 Direct and indirect questions; 4.5.2 The rhetoric of questions

4.6 Scientific dialogicity: A combined model5. Scientific dialogicity in action; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 The United Monarchy: A question from the past; 5.3 The classic pattern (Steiner 1998); 5.5 The conflicting pattern: Another example (Finkelstein et al. 2007); 5.6 The ping-pong pattern (Finkelstein 1996; Mazar 1997; Finkelstein 1998); 5.7 Face-to-face interaction; 6. Conclusions; Bibliography; Appendix: Corpus of journal articles; A. Social Sciences (for Chapters 3 and 4); B. Archaeology (for Chapter 5); Author index; Subject index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786613424242

9781283424240

128342424X

9789027275028

9027275025

OCLC:

769927252