Publications

Publication details [#47245]

Swales, John. 1998. Other Floors, Other Voices. A Textography of A Small University Building. Routledge. 240 pp.

Publication type

Book – monograph

Publication language

English

Keywords

academic language | ethnography | literature | speech community | text analysis

Annotation

This book uses text analysis and ethnography to demonstrate how the lives, life commitments, and life projects of people working in a single university building, are deeply embedded in academic literate culture.