Discourse in the Professions
Perspectives from corpus linguistics
Editors
This book explores the structure and use of academic and professional discourse through the lens of corpus linguistics. The goal of this book is to show how insights from corpus linguistic analyses can help us better understand how we use academic and professional language and help us find ways to better train newcomers to the genres used in various professional contexts. The contributions to this book show that specialized corpora of specific genres from a variety of fields allow us to make more relevant observations about the function and use of language for particular purposes. The specialized corpora examined include written and spoken academic genres, written and spoken business and legal genres, and written philanthropic genres. The book showcases a variety of approaches to analyzing the discourse of specialized corpora, and each chapter concludes with a reflection on the practical and pedagogical implications of the analysis.
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 16] 2004. vi, 333 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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IntroductionUlla Connor and Thomas A. Upton | pp. 1–8
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The argument for using English specialized corpora to understand academic and professional languageLynne Flowerdew | pp. 11–33
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Stylistic features of academic speech: The role of formulaic expressionsRita Simpson | pp. 37–64
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Academic language: An exploration of university classroom and textbook languageRandi Reppen | pp. 65–86
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A convincing argument: Corpus analysis and academic persuasionKen Hyland | pp. 87–112
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// so what have YOU been WORking on REcently //: Compiling a specialized corpus of spoken business EnglishMartin Warren | pp. 115–140
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TOOK // did you // from the miniBAR //: What is the practical relevance of a corpus-driven language study to practitioners in Hong Kong's hotel industry?Winnie Cheng | pp. 141–166
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"Invisible to us": A preliminary corpus-based study of spoken business EnglishMichael McCarthy and Michael Handford | pp. 167–201
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Legal discourse: Opportunities and threats for corpus linguisticsVijay Bhatia | pp. 203–231
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The genre of grant proposals: A corpus linguistic analysisUlla Connor and Thomas A. Upton | pp. 235–255
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Rhetorical appeals in fundraising direct mail lettersUlla Connor and Kostya Gladkov | pp. 257–286
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Framing matters: Communicating relationships through metaphor in fundraising textsElizabeth M. Goering | pp. 287–306
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Pronouns and metadiscourse as interpersonal rhetorical devices in fundraising letters: A corpus linguistic analysisAvon Crismore | pp. 307–330
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Index | pp. 331–333
“With its broad coverage of specialized discourses and its strong focus on pedagogical and practical issues of linguistic research, this volume can certainly be recommended to anyone interested in LSP, discourse analysis, or applied corpus linguistics. The contributions in this volume clearly demonstrate that the use of corpora makes a difference and that findings based on corpus data can have a strong impact on teaching language for academic and professional purposes.”
Ute Römer, University of Hanover, in Studies in Second Language Acquisition Vol. 28(4), 2006
Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CF: Linguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2004055952