Publications

Publication details [#53208]

Thompson, Geoff and Chul-Kyu Kim. 2010. Obligation and reader involvement in English and Korean science popularizations: a corpus-based cross-cultural text analysis. Text & Talk 30 (1) : 53–73.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

corpus analysis | crosscultural context | language and culture | scientific report | text analysis

Language as a subject

English | Kore

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/TEXT/html

Annotation

This crosscultural study examines modal expressions of obligation and reader involvement in British and Korean newspaper corpora of science popularization texts. It explores how the apparent differences can be considered as reflecting different cultural norms.