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Publication details [#59084]

Helal, Fethi. 2014. Genres, styles and discourse communities in global communicative competition: The case of the Franco–American ‘AIDS War’ (1983–1987). Discourse Studies 16 (1) : 47–64.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse strategy | language use | research article | rhetorical effect | scientific language

Language as a subject

English | French

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper draws on Swales’s (1990) CARS model to compare the rhetorical strategies used by American and French scientists in their research article introductions edited during the ‘AIDS War’ (1983–1987) on precedency rights for the AIDS virus detection.