Paul Thompson, Giuliana Diani ... 350 pages - Publisher: Cambridge; 1st edition (April, 2015) ... Language: English - ISBN-10: 1443874396 - ISBN-13: 978-1443874397 ...
The analysis of academic genres and the use of corpus resources, methods
and analytical tools are now central to a great deal of research into
English for Academic Purposes (EAP). Both genre analysis and corpus
investigations have revealed the patterning of academic texts, at the
levels of lexicogrammar and discourse, and have led to richer
understandings of the variations in such patterning between genres and
between disciplines. The thirteen contributions included in this volume
address issues in academic discourse studies from a range of
perspectives: namely, corpus-based research into EAP at the
lexicogrammatical and genre levels (Section 1); intercultural EAP
research (Section 2); English as a Lingua Franca in academic
communication (Section 3); and the relationships between corpus, genre
and pedagogy in EAP, with an emphasis on implications and applications
(Section 4). The collection is aimed primarily at teachers, students and
researchers of EAP and applied corpus linguistics, but will also
interest applied linguists in general. The emphasis of the contributions
varies from studies with predominantly linguistic orientations to those
focussing on practical applications.