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Publication details [#27088]

Giannoni, Davide Simone. 2002. Worlds of gratitude: A contrastive study of acknowledgement texts in English and Italian research articles. Applied Linguistics 23 (1) : 1–31.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

academic world | acknowledging | corpus analysis | research article

Language as a subject

English | Italian

Place, Publisher

Oxford University Press

ISBN

0142-6001

Journal WWW

http://www3.oup.co.uk/applij/contents/

Annotation

This paper investigates the socio-pragmatic norms that govern scholarly acknowledgments in English and Italian research articles, drawing on corpus data indicative of personal involvement and peer-reference, authorial responsibility, generic complexity and staging, and pragmatic appropriacy.