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Introduction [Academic Discourse across Disciplines]
No full textThe introduction outlines the importance of disciplinary variation in academic discourse studies and presents the sections and chapters of the volume
Introduction [Dialogue within Discourse Communities : Metadiscursive Perspectives on Academic Genres]
No full textThe introduction deals extensively with the keywords of the book: the definition of academic genres and patterning in genres, the interactive nature of discourse, the problems of defining a discourse community, variation across speech and writing, and metadiscourse. The final section introduces the organization of the book, basically focusing on metadiscursive practices in written and spoken genres
Introduction [Abstracts in Academic Discourse. Variation and Change]
No full textThe introduction points out the relevance of the book in the context of linguistic research on academic writing, in particular focusing of the various perspectives that approach academic abstracts as a genre
Devising a language certificate for primary school teachers of English
Full text linkQuite often the complexity and fluidity of an L2 teacher's interactional work is understated. In fact, the dual nature of language as a subject and vehicle places extreme demands on language teachers. The attempt to devise a tool that might be used to assess the interactionl skills and professionalism of language teachers cannot, therefore, be said to be definite and comprehensive. Therefore, the Certificate of English for Primary Teachers is flexible eough to meet the different needs of a wide range of language teachers operating in manifold contexts. Since it is not possible to separate language, pedagogy and language awareness when considering the role of the primary langauge teacher, the certificate which has been developed highlights and supports these connections
Un esempio di analisi linguistica. 'Style in Fiction'
No full textL'articolo illustra il modello di Leech e Short in "Style in Fiction" esemplificandone il contributo all'analisi stilistica con l'analisi di un brano di Golding
Considerazioni su una tipologia di testi
No full textL'articolo propone una attenzione centrale alla varietà dei testi e ad una loro tipologizzazione come strumento centrale nella deifinizione del syllabus e come oggetto di particolare attenzione per lo sviluppo di competenze testuali e sociolinguistiche
English Across Genres. Language Variation in the Discourse of Economics,
No full textThe volume looks at academic discourse from the point of view of genre analysis and rhetoric. It provides a thourough introduction to genre analysis and focuses on a case study of the discourse of economics. Argumentation and reflexivity are seen as key issues in the analysis of different genres in the field (textbooks, abstracts, research articles, comments).ContentsPrefaceChapter 1. Introduction. Preliminary DefinitionsChapter 2. Textbooks as Dialogues. The Construction of the Reader’s Knowledge and BeliefsChapter 3. Quantifiers and World of Reference. Generic structure, Language Choice and Methodological Assumptions.Chapter 4. Language Variation Across Genres. Analogical argumentChapter 5. Forms and Functions of Reported ArgumentChapter 6. The Rise of Abstracts. Development of the GenreChapter 7. Meta-argumentative Expressions Across Genres.Conclusio
“Attitude and episteme in academic discourse: adverbials of stance across genres and moves”
No full textThe paper is based on the analysis of comparable homogenous corpora of academic texts, including abstracts, research articles and textbook chapters. Focusing on adverbials of stance, the paper tries to highlight the forms and functions of evaluative metadiscourse across genres. Biber’s classification – and the class of “attitude adverbials” in particular - is discussed against the data in our corpus. Particular attention is paid to planes of discourse and the way the affect the expression of stance. Variation across genres is related to the different role played by reflexivity in the different genres. The paper also discusses a working methodology for the analysis of evaluation in academic English that unites the interest in structural aspects with the interest in interactive and socio-cultural processes
Arguing in economics and business discourse: phraseological tools in research articles
No full textThe paper looks at the representation of argument in the discourse of business and economics through the meta-argumentative phraseological elements that characterize research articles. The research article represents the most distinguished channel of knowledge dissemination within the community and plays a crucial role in the process of knowledge construction by providing a forum in which academics can set out their views in the form of arguments. Keeping in mind the basically dialogic and argumentative nature of academic discourse, the paper looks at the variety of phraseological tools employed by scholars in the field of business and economics in order to represent their own argument. Exploring the role of reflexive language in business and economics research articles can also be seen to contribute to an exploration of the discipline specificity of “general academic language” (Hyland and Bondi 2006). Disciplines are often characterized by their argumentative strategies as well as by their content, and phraseology can be a helpful signpost to discourse organization (Sinclair and Mauranen 2006). Even closely related areas like economics and business studies can be shown to reflect different epistemologies and different rhetorical preferences. The analysis is based on two comparable corpora of journal articles of about 2.5 million words. The methodology adopted ranges from comparison of frequency data to contextual analysis of phraseological units. Focusing on the extended unit of meaning (Sinclair 1996), phraseology is identified on the basis of a combination of frequency-based information and semantics. Drawing in particular on studies of an EAP-specific phraseology, the paper looks at both quantitative and qualitative factors in order to identify the data. Quantitative analysis of repeated strings of words is seen as an excellent starting point, but this needs to be related to significant functions, such as for example discourse relations. Mere lexical repetition, furthermore, does not account for repeated patterns involving a range of semantically related lexical items, as shown in Groom (2005) and Charles (2006). The focus here is on organizational discourse units (Sinclair and Mauranen 2006) and meta-argumentative phraseology in particular. look at phraseology as a signpost to discourse organization, i.e. “elements which organize unfolding discourse”, whether addressed at interpreting the interactive moves at play or signaling textual coherence and cohesion (Sinclair and Mauranen 2006: 70). The analysis offers an overview of variation in phraseology across business and economics, while focusing on one of the most typical phraseological items of the two corpora: "on the other hand". The discussion of the data focuses on disciplines and their variety of languages
Scuola primaria e lingua straniera: un approccio al problema
No full textL' opera vuole dare un'idea completa delle problematiche inerentil'insegnamento precoce della lingua straniera. L'autrice parte dall'esame dei problemi di ordine biologico e psicologico e, attraverso una panoramica delle esperienze già fatte in ambito europeo, arriva al problema glottodidattico vero e proprio. Sulla base dell'approccio scelto si elabora una concreta programmazione. Il volume si conclude con la presentazione ed analisi dell'unità didattica. In appendice il lettore troverà una serie di esemplificazioni del progetto ILSSE
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