Publications

Publication details [#51033]

Schleef, Eric. 2009. A cross-cultural investigation of German and American academic style. Journal of Pragmatics 41 (6) : 1104–1124.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

academic language | context | crosslinguistic perspective | genre | language and culture

Language as a subject

English, American | German

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This cross-cultural analysis compares the academic speech style of German and American Humanities and Natural Science instructors and students in lectures and interactional classes. American academic student–teacher discourse appears to be more interactive and less formal.