Discourse In The Professions: Perspectives From Corpus Linguistics

by Connor, Ulla; Upton, Thomas A.

• ISBN13: 9781588115737
• ISBN10: 1588115739
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-11-30
• Publisher: John Benjamins Pub Co

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(10)
Ulla Connor and Thomas A. Upton, Editors
Section I
The argument for using English specialized corpora to understand academic and professional language	11	(26)
Lynne Flowerdew
Section II
Stylistic features of academic speech: The role of formulaic expressions	37	(28)
Rita C. Simpson
Academic language: An exploration of university classroom and textbook language	65	(22)
Randi Reppen
A convincing argument: Corpus analysis and academic persuasion	87	(28)
Ken Hyland
Section III
// so what have YOU been WORking on REcently //: Compiling a specialized corpus of spoken business English	115	(26)
Martin Warren
TOOK
// ->did you // from the miniBAR //: What is the practical relevance of a corpus-driven language study to practitioners in Hong Kong's hotel industry?	141	(26)
Winnie Cheng
"Invisible to us": A preliminary corpus-based study of spoken business English	167	(36)
Michael McCarthy and Michael Handford
Legal discourse: Opportunities and threats for corpus linguistics	203	(32)
Vijay K Bhatia, Nicola N. Langton and Jane Lung
Section IV
The genre of grant proposals: A corpus linguistic analysis	235	(22)
Ulla Connor and Thomas A. Upton
Rhetorical appeals in fundraising direct mail letters	257	(30)
Ulla Connor and Kostya Gladkov
Framing matters: Communicating relationships through metaphor in fundraising texts	287	(20)
Elizabeth M. Goering
Pronouns and metadiscourse as interpersonal rhetorical devices in fundraising letters: A corpus linguistic analysis	307
Avon Crismore