21.2934, Books: Discourse Analysis/Text/Corpus Ling: Giannoni

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Date: 13-Jul-2010
From: Christian Bieri < publicity at peterlang.com >
Subject: Mapping Academic Values in the Disciplines: Giannoni

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Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 10:45:52
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Subject: Mapping Academic Values in the Disciplines: Giannoni

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Title: Mapping Academic Values in the Disciplines 
Subtitle: A Corpus-Based Approach 
Publication Year: 2010 
Publisher: Peter Lang AG
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Book URL: http://www.peterlang.com/Index.cfm?vLang=E&vSiteID=4&vSiteName=BookDetail%2Ecfm&VID=430488 

Author: Davide Simone Giannoni

Paperback: ISBN:  9783034304887 Pages: 288 Price: U.S. $ 74.95
Paperback: ISBN:  9783034304887 Pages: 288 Price: U.K. £ 43.20
Paperback: ISBN:  9783034304887 Pages: 288 Price: Europe EURO 48.00 Comment: for Germany EURO 51.40, for Austria EURO 52.80 (incl. VAT)

Abstract:

A broad strand of applied linguistic research has focused on the language of 
science and scholarship, stressing its role in the construction and negotiation 
of knowledge claims. Central to the success of such texts is the use of 
evaluative expressions encoding what is considered to be desirable or 
undesirable in a given domain. While the speech acts relevant to evaluation 
have been extensively researched, little is known of the underlying values 
they encode. This volume seeks to fill the gap by exploring the main facets 
of academic value in a corpus of research articles from leading journals in 
anthropology, biology, computer science, economics, engineering, history, 
mathematics, medicine, physics and sociology. The collocations and 
qualified entities associated with such variables in the corpus provide insights 
into how scholars draw on a repertoire of conventional, largely unqualified, 
axiological meanings instrumental to the production of new knowledge in their 
field. 

Contents: 
- Academia and the disciplines 
- Discourse communities 
- Academic English and ELF 
- The values of academia - Goodness markers 
- Size markers 
- Novelty markers 
- Relevance markers 
- Evaluative lexis and value markers 
- Academic values signalled in the corpus 
- Lexical resources encoding value 
- Variation among qualified entities 
- The role of academic values

The Author: 
Davide Simone Giannoni is Assistant Professor of English at the University 
of Bergamo (Italy). He holds a doctorate in Applied Linguistics from the 
University of Reading (UK) and an M.A. in Linguistics-tesol from the 
University of Surrey (UK). His research on academic-professional genres has 
appeared in several international journals and volumes. He has co-edited New 
Trends in Specialized Discourse Analysis (2006), Identity Traits in English 
Academic Discourse (2008) and Researching Language and the Law (2010). 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics

Written In: English  (eng)

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