Approaches to specialized genres / edited by Kathy Ling Lin, Isaac N. Mwinlaaru and Dennis Tay.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lin, Kathy Ling, editor.

Mwinlaaru, Isaac N., editor.

Tay, Dennis, editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media genres.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 304 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Kathy Ling LIN is a lecturer at the Research Centre for Corpora and Intercultural Studies, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. She received her Ph.D. from Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She is contributor to 'Corpus-based Approaches to Grammar, Media and Health Discourses' (Springer, 2020). Isaac N. Mwinlaaru is Lecturer at the Department of English, University of Cape Coast, and was Visiting Lecturer at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His award-wining PhD thesis is a discourse-based grammar of Dagaare. He is contributor to 'The Routledge Handbook of African Linguistics' (2018). Dennis Tay is Associate Professor at the Department of English, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He holds a PhD in Linguistics and MSc in Quantitative Analysis and Computational Mathematics. His most recent book is 'Time Series Analysis of Discourse. Method and Case Studies' (Routledge, 2019).

Contents:

Part I Theory and concepts p. 15

1 Towards a meta-theory of genre p. 17 / Isaac N. Mwinlaaru

Part II Rhetorical and generic structure p. 37

2 English-language abstracts in Chinese-language academic journals: a comparative analysis of rhetorical moves p. 39 / Ning Zhao and Nicholas Groom

3 Macro-structural development of empirical research articles in applied linguistics and civil engineering (1980-2010): textual evidence and insider perspectives p. 60 / Kathy Ling Lin

4 Categories of narrative instances in Systemic Functional Linguistics: exploring a more flexible generic structure for 'recounts' p. 84 / Grisel S. Salmaso

5 Retraction notices as a high-stakes academic genre: a move analysis p. 101 / Shaoxiong (Brian) Xu and Guangwei Hu

6 Rhetorical analysis of philanthropic fundraising letters in a Ghanaian university p. 121 / Joseph Benjamin Archibald Afful

Part III Lexicogrammatical resources p. 135

7 A corpus-based study of discourse markers in secondary student talk p. 137 / Ivy Chan and Jim Chan

8 Construing symbolic exchange in academic registers of Spanish: sayers and projection in linguistics articles in Colombian journals p. 154 / Jesús David Guerra Lyons and Gillian Moss

Part IV Multisemiotic analysis p. 175

9 Genre, pedagogy, and PowerPoint design: a multimodal move analysis of linguistics lecture slides p. 177 / Dezheng (William) Feng

10 The multimodal genre of synchronous videoconferencing lectures: an eclectic framework to analyse interaction p. 198 / Mercedes Querol-Julián

11 Identifying creative metaphor in video ads p. 216 / Molly Xie Pan and Dennis Tay

Part V Genre in pedagogic and professional settings p. 241

12 Combining genre analysis and corpus consultation in class: using do-it-yourself corpora to explore the literature review p. 243 / Maggie Charles

13 When the office meets textbooks: juxtaposing multiple perspectives to develop teachers' knowledge of workplace genres and to enhance the teaching of workplace writing p. 259 / An Cheng

14 Hybridity in a specialized genre: training log book entries in professional construction engineering p. 283 / Cindy Tsui Ying Yu and Christoph A. Hafner.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 13, 2021).

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Print version: Approaches to specialized genres

ISBN:

9780429053351

0429053355

9780429620904

042962090X

9780429623059

0429623054

9780429618758

0429618751

Publisher Number:

40030309521

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