1st Edition

Academic Discourse

By John Flowerdew Copyright 2002
352 Pages
by Routledge

352 Pages
by Routledge

352 Pages
by Routledge

  Academic Discourse presents a collection of specially commissioned articles on the theme of academic discourse. Divided into sections covering the main approaches, each begins with a state of the art overview of the approach and continues with exemplificatory empirical studies.  Genre analysis, corpus linguistics, contrastive rhetoric and ethnography are comprehensively covered... Read more
List of contributors page Acknowledgements PART I: Genre Analysis PART II: Corpus-based Studies PART III: Contrastive Rhetoric PART IV: Ethnographic/Naturalistic Approaches Bibliography A uthor Index Subject Index

Biography

John Flowerdew is Professor in the English Department of the City University of Hong Kong.