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ESP Across Cultures vol. 10. Special issue 'Academic English Across Cultures'
No full textVolume 10 of ESP Across Cultures is the second issue in the history of the journal to be devoted to a specific theme within the world of English for Specific Purposes, following on from volume 7 of ESP Across Cultures where the theme was ‘legal English across cultures’. This time the theme is ‘academic English across cultures’.
Academic discourse constitutes a ‘growth area’ within the sphere of ESP studies, and several of the papers that have appeared in previous issues of ESP Across Cultures have dealt with the topic. But it was felt that there was room to dedicate an entire issue to the theme, also because the cross-cultural element when applied to academic discourse can offer new, and sometimes unexpected, insights into what has rapidly become a major source of interest over the last two or three decades to linguists, the vast majority of whom work in academia and hence have a ‘vested interest’ in understanding the phenomenon of academic discourse.
The ten papers constituting this special issue represent a rich mixture of approaches to academic discourse across cultures, some focusing on comparisons between the academic English used by native speakers as opposed to that of non-native speakers, while others are more concerned with finding effective ways of teaching ESP in an academic context and of assessing learners’ needs
Online_appendicies – Supplemental material for Textual Voices in Corporate Reporting: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Chinese, Italian, and American CSR Reports
No full textSupplemental material, Online_appendicies for Textual Voices in Corporate Reporting: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Chinese, Italian, and American CSR Reports by Marina Bondi and Danni Yu in International Journal of Business Communication</p
Perspectives on keywords and keyness: an introduction
No full textStarting from the different interpretations of the expression "key words" - as searching tools, in text mining and classification, but also as analytic tools in text interpretation and discourse analysis - this chapter focuses on the relationship between words and text, looking at the co-text of the word, but also at the cultural context that informs the text, where culture is taken to mean the repertoires of meanings shared within a community (e.g. national, or local, but also disciplinary). Keywords are often taken to be markers of the “aboutness” and the style of a text; in this chapter we lookat what structures of textuality keywords point to and how far they are also informed by the position of the writer, in the context of text production. The words and expressions that recurrently identify the conceptual structures and the organizational structures of a text or corpus can be studied to illuminate features of the discourse that produces the text or corpus. The keywords that point to the aboutness of a text or corpus will be key to the ontology of the discourse. The keywords that point to textual organization will be key to the epistemology. We explore these preliminary statements through a case study of a landmark text: the General Theory by John Maynard Keynes
Promoting inclusiveness within LGBT+ communities within digital environments. A genre and corpus-based analysis of news releases from websites of English and Italian LGBT+ Organisations
No full textReview of: i. Marina Bondi, Laura Gavioli, Marc Silver (eds), 2004, Academic Discourse, Genre and Small Corpora, Officina Edizioni, Roma. ii. Laurie Anderson, Julia Bamford (eds), 2004, Evaluation in Oral and Written Academic Discourse, Officina Edizioni, Roma
No full textReview of: i. Marina Bondi, Laura Gavioli, Marc Silver (eds), 2004, Academic Discourse, Genre and Small Corpora, Officina Edizioni, Roma. ii. Laurie Anderson, Julia Bamford (eds), 2004, Evaluation in Oral and Written Academic Discourse, Officina Edizioni, Roma
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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