Academic Discourse

by John Flowerdew

Overview

Academic Discourse presents a collection of specially commissioned articles on the theme of academic discourse. Divided into sections covering the main approaches, each begins with a state of the art overview of the approach and continues with exemplificatory empirical studies.  Genre analysis, corpus linguistics, contrastive rhetoric and ethnography are comprehensively covered through the analysis of various academic genres: research articles, PhD these, textbooks, argumentative essays, and business cases.   Academic Discourse brings together state-of-the art analysis and theory in a single volume.  It also features: - an introduction which provides a survey and rationale for the material - implications for pedagogy at the end of each chapter- topical review articles with example studies- a glossary  The breadth of critical writing, and from a wide geographical spread, makes Academic Discourse a fresh and insightful addition to the field of discourse analysis.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780582418875
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/09/2001
Series:	Applied Linguistics and Language Study
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

John Flowerdew is Professor in the English Department of the City University of Hong Kong.

Table of Contents

List of contributors page Acknowledgements PART I: Genre Analysis PART II: Corpus-based Studies PART III: Contrastive Rhetoric PART IV: Ethnographic/Naturalistic Approaches Bibliography A uthor Index Subject Index