Table of contents
1. The challenges of different settings: An overview
Section I. Exploring discourse in academic settings7
2. '…post-colonialism, multi-culturalism, structuralism, feminism, post-modernism and so on and so forth': A comparative analysis of vague category markers in academic discourse
3. Emphatics in academic discourse: Integrating corpus and discourse tools in the study of cross-disciplinary variation
4. Interaction, identity and culture in academic writing: The case of German, British and American academics in the humanities
Section II. Exploring discourse in workplace settings93
5. 'Got a date or something?': A corpus analysis of the role of humour and laughter in the workplace meetings of English language teachers
6. Determining discourse-based moves in professional reports
7. // --> ONE country two SYStems //: The discourse intonation patterns of word associations
Section III. Exploring discourse in news and entertainment155
8. Who's speaking?: Evidentiality in US newspapers during the 2004 presidential campaign
9. Television dialogue and natural conversation: Linguistic similarities and functional differences
10. A corpus approach to discursive construction of hip-hop identity
Section IV. Exploring discourse through specific linguistic features241
11. The use of the it-cleft construction in 19th-century English
12. Place and time adverbials in native and non-native English student writing
Author index289
Corpus and tools index291
Subject index
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