Academic Discourse

Academic Discourse focuses on English for Academic Purposes (EAP), which is a growing subject as English becomes increasingly established as the world language of instruction, research and publication. John Flowerdew demonstrates the scope, theoretical issues and pedagogical concerns of discourse analysis within academic contexts. The book discusses both written and spoken discourse and offers research methodologies with practical applications focusing on the main areas of discourse analysis within EAP - genre analysis, corpus-based analysis, contrastive rhetoric and ethnography.

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Acknowledgements
Introduction: Approaches to the Analysis of Academic Discourse in English	p. 1
Genre Analysis	p. 19
A Generic View of Academic Discourse	p. 21
Disciplinary variation in abstracts: The case of Wildlife Behaviour and Conservation Biology	p. 40
Generic moves in Ph.D. thesis Introductions	p. 57
Introductory concepts and 'cutting edge' theories: Can the genre of the textbook accommodate both?	p. 76
Corpus-based Studies	p. 93
Corpus-Based Analyses in EAP	p. 95
Activity and Evaluation: Reporting practice in academic writing	p. 115
Corpora and corpus analysis: new windows on academic writing	p. 131
Integrated and Fragmented Worlds: EAP Materials and Corpus Linguistics	p. 150
Contrastive Rhetoric	p. 165
Contrastive Rhetoric: An Expanding Paradigm	p. 167
Epistemic modality in argumentative essays of second-language writers	p. 182
Packed houses and intimate gatherings: Audience and rhetorical structure	p. 196
'Selling' or 'telling'? The issue of cultural variation in research genres	p. 216
Ethnographic/Naturalistic Approaches	p. 233
Ethnographically inspired approaches to the study of academic discourse	p. 235
Investigating writing development in an academic English Language curriculum	p. 253
The L2 case discussion in business: An ethnographic investigation	p. 268
Framing and Text Interpretation Across Languages and Cultures: A Case Study	p. 287
Bibliography	p. 302
Author Index	p. 333
Subject Index	p. 339
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