English Text Construction

Volume 1, Issue 1 (2008)

2008. 172 pp.

Publishing status: Available

© John Benjamins Publishing Company

https://doi.org/10.1075/etc.1.1

Table of Contents

Texts under construction, constructions under scrutiny: Introducing English Text Construction Dirk Van Hulle and An Laffut	1–3
Disciplinary voices: Interactions in research writing Ken Hyland	5–22
We, ourselves and who else? Differences in use of passive voice and metonymy for oneself versus other researchers in medical research articles Gabriella Rundblad	23–40
Too chatty: Learner academic writing and register variation Gaëtanelle Gilquin and Magali Paquot	41–61
The speaker’s voice: A diachronic study on the use of well and now as pragmatic markers Tine Defour	62–82
Vocal effect and resonance: Voice in Henry James’s The Bostonians Barbara Straumann	83–96
Rediscovering the sound of the voice in Caribbean fiction: The example of Robert Antoni’s Divina Trace Kathie Birat	97–112
Tess’s silent cry: The vocal object in Tess of the d’Urbervilles Annie Ramel	113–124
Listening to the mute voices of prose in recent American short stories Claudia Desblaches	125–140
Voices from nowhere: Orality and absence in Graham Swift’s Waterland and Last Orders Pascale Tollance	141–153
A remainder that spoils the ear: Voice as love object in modernist fiction Josiane Paccaud-Huguet	154–166
Acknowledgements
Referees for this issue	167

Subjects

Linguistics

Applied linguistics

English linguistics

Literature & Literary Studies

Theoretical literature & literary studies

English literature & literary studies