27.323, Books: Academic Discourse across Cultures: Lakić, Živković, Vuković (eds.)

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Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 15:27:00
From: Chris Humphrey [chumphrey at c-s-p.org]
Subject: Academic Discourse across Cultures: Lakić, Živković, Vuković (eds.)

Title: Academic Discourse across Cultures 
Publication Year: 2015 
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
	   http://www.cambridgescholars.com/

Book URL: http://www.cambridgescholars.com/academic-discourse-across-cultures 

Editor: Igor Lakić
Editor: Branka Živković
Editor: Milica Vuković

Hardback: ISBN:  9781443878012 Pages: 205 Price: U.K. £ 47.99
Hardback: ISBN:  9781443878012 Pages: 205 Price: U.S. $ 81.95

Abstract:

Academic discourse has recently become a blooming field of research for
linguists interested in genre and discourse analysis, as well as pragmatics.
The methodology and conventions employed in academic discourse, however, vary
across cultures to a certain degree, and often represent obstacles for
publishing in international journals for authors whose native language is not
English, as top journals tend to centre on the Anglo-Saxon academic writing
norms. This is one of the major reasons why national academic discourses need
to be linguistically profiled and studied and contrastively compared against
these norms. This volume contributes to this very objective by shedding light
on academic discourse as effectuated in various, mostly Balkan countries, and
contrasts it against the corresponding western, English discourse.
Furthermore, academic discourse is studied through a variety of genres it can
assume, such as research articles, conference proceedings, and university
lectures. Through exploring the cultural differences in academic discourse and
the standards of international academic writing, this volume offers readers a
chance to become better equipped in publishing abroad.

Opening with a chapter focusing on the general structure of research articles
and national writing habits as a potential hindrance to publishing abroad, the
book goes on to study the rhetorical structure of the abstracts, introductions
and conclusions of research articles in linguistics, economics and civil
engineering. The second part of the book deals with hedging, contrastively
studied in international and national journals, with the following chapters
studying cohesion as accomplished in academic writing. Part three deals with
the syntactic and semantic features of academic discourse.

This book will be of particular interest to linguists interested in genre and
discourse analysis in general and academic discourse, and will also appeal to
scholars from other research backgrounds wishing to familiarise themselves
with international and national academic conventions, and thus overcome the
hurdles relating to academic writing conventions when publishing abroad.

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     Pragmatics

Written In: English  (eng)

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