| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 309 pages) |
| Series |
Pragmatics & beyond, 0922-842X ; v. 148 |
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Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 148
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| Contents |
Academic Voices; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Preface and acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 1.1 The KIAP project; 1.2 The KIAP Corpus; 1.2.1 Corpus statistics; 1.2.2 Text selection; 1.2.3 Representativity; 1.2.4 Text formatting; 1.2.5 Text encoding; 1.2.6 Search options; 1.3 Cultural identity; 1.3.1 Introduction; 1.3.2 National identity; 1.3.3 Academic identity; 1.3.4 Disciplinary identity; 1.3.5 Genre and discourse community; 1.3.6 Cultural identity in KIAP; 1.4 Previous research; 2. Theoretical and methodological frameworks; 2.1 Theoretical framework |
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2.1.1 Main theoretical approaches2.1.2 A polyphonic framework: ScaPoLine; 2.2 Quantitative methods; 2.2.1 Our independent variables; 2.2.2 Article length and absolute frequency; 2.2.3 Relative frequency and measures based on it; 2.2.4 Cross-linguistic comparisons and relative frequency; 2.2.5 Statistical tests; 2.2.6 Why non-parametric statistics?; 2.3 Qualitative methods; 2.3.1 An illustration of method; 2.3.2 Our use of case studies; 3. Quantitative results; 3.0 Introduction; 3.1 Cultural identities as tendencies in linguistic practices |
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3.2 Is discipline or language the most important factor?3.3 Differences and similarities between disciplines; 3.3.1 Which differences between disciplines are signifi cant?; 3.3.2 Similarities between disciplines; 3.4 Differences and similarities between languages; 3.4.1 Which differences between languages are significant?; 3.4.2 Similarities between languages; 4. Presence of the author; 4.0 Introduction; 4.1 Quantitative and comparative results; 4.1.1 First person subjects; 4.1.2 Indefi nite pronoun subjects; 4.2 Author roles; 4.2.1 Verb groups; 4.2.2 Author roles and cotext |
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4.3 First person plural subjects4.3.1 The reference and functions of first person plurals; 4.3.2 'We' in combination with two verbs; 4.3.3 Differences between languages and disciplines; 4.3.4 'We' and polyphony; 4.4 "Indefinite" authors; 4.4.1 Indefinite pronouns in English, French and Norwegian; 4.4.2 Previous studies on the French indefinite pronoun on; 4.4.3 Six values of on in French research articles; 4.4.4 Distribution of on-values; 4.4.5 Final remarks; 4.5 Author roles and evaluation in abstracts; 4.5.1 Introduction; 4.5.2 Author roles; 4.5.3 Evaluative elements; 4.5.4 Summing up |
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4.6 Case studies4.6.1 Pronoun use in individual articles; 4.6.2 Implicit and explicit references to 'we' in a Norwegian medical article; 4.6.3 A study of two English abstracts; 4.7 Concluding remarks; 5. Reader/ writer interaction; 5.0 Introduction; 5.1 Quantitative and comparative results; 5.2 Metatext; 5.3 'Let us'-imperatives; 5.3.1 Types of 'let'-imperatives; 5.3.2 A classificatory overview of different uses; 5.3.3 Functions of text composition; 5.3.4 Rhetorical functions; 5.3.5 Variation between disciplines, languages and individual authors; 5.4 Presentation of "results." |
| Summary |
This book explores how the voices of authors and other researchers are manifested in academic discourse, and how the author handles the polyphonic interaction between these various parties. It represents a unique study of academic discourse in that it takes a doubly contrastive approach, focusing on the two factors of discipline and language at the same time. It is based on a large electronic corpus of 450 research articles from three disciplines (economics, linguistics and medicine) in three languages (English, French and Norwegian). The book investigates whether disciplines and languages may |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Academic writing.
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Writing.
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Writing
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writing (processes)
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Composition & Creative Writing.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric.
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REFERENCE -- Writing Skills.
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Academic writing
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Writing
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| Genre/Form |
Festschriften
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Festschriften.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gedde-Dahl, Trine.
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Kinn, Torodd.
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| ISBN |
9789027293480 |
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9027293481 |
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9789027253910 |
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9027253919 |
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