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Title Academic discourse across cultures / edited by Igor Lakić, Branka Živković and Milica Vuković
Published Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015

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Summary Academic discourse has recently become a blooming field of research for linguists interested in genre and discourse analysis, as well as pragmatics. The methodology and conventions employed in academic discourse, however, vary across cultures to a certain degree, and often represent obstacles for publishing in international journals for authors whose native language is not English, as top journals tend to centre on the Anglo-Saxon academic writing norms. This is one of the major reasons why national academic discourses need to be linguistically profiled and studied and contrastively compared a
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Academic writing -- Cross-cultural studies
Grammar, syntax & morphology.
Linguistics.
Semantics, discourse analysis, etc.
EDUCATION -- Essays.
EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions.
EDUCATION -- Reference.
Academic writing
Genre/Form Cross-cultural studies
Form Electronic book
Author Lakić, Igor, editor
Živković, Branka, editor
Vuković, Milica, editor
ISBN 9781443882378
1443882372