Academic Writing At the Interface of Corpus and Discourse

by Charles, Maggie; Hunston, Susan; Pecorari, Diane

• ISBN13: 9781847064363
• ISBN10: 1847064361
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-01-13
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

A selection of recent work by experts in academic written discourse illustrates how corpus linguistics and discourse analysis can work as complementary approaches.

Author Biography

Maggie Charles is Tutor for Academic Purposes at Oxford University Language Centre, Oxford, UK. Diane Pecorari is a Senior Lecturer and Coordinator of English in the Department of Humanities, Maumlet;lardalen University, Sweden. Susan Hunston is Professor of English Language at the University of Birmingham, UK.

Table of Contents

Introduction to the Volume

Focus on Genre and Disciplinary Discourses

Introduction to Part I

Schematic structures and lexico-grammatical realization in corpus based genre analysis: The case of 'research' in the PhD literature review

Persuading sponsors and securing funding: Rhetorical patterns in grant proposals

Verbal and mental processes in academic disciplines

In the wake of the Terror: Phraseological tools of time setting in the narrative of history

Formulaic language in biology: A topic-specific investigation

Focus on Interpersonal Discourses

Introduction to Part II

Corpus informed discourse analysis: The case of academic engagement

E-conferencing: Corpus and discourse insights, Ann Hewings

Stance, interaction and the rhetorical patterns of restrictive adverbs: Discourse roles of only, just, simply and merely

A dialogic account of authority in academic writing

Focus on Learner Discourses

Introduction to Part III

Lexical verbs in academic discourse: A corpus-driven study of learner use

Linking adverbials in student and professional writing in literary studies: What makes writing mature

Variation in the writing of economics students in Britain and Pakistan: the case of conjunctive ties

Can I use headings in my essay? Section headings, macrostructures and genre families in the BAWE corpus of student writing

Using the revision process to help international students understand the linguistic construction of the academic identity

Afterword

Index

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