1st Edition
Approaches to Specialized Genres
Introduction: Genre research into the 21st century - Goals, approaches and applications
Kathy Ling Lin, Isaac N. Mwinlaaru and Dennis Tay
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Theory and concepts
1. Towards a meta-theory of genre
Isaac N. Mwinlaaru
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Rhetorical and generic structure
2. English-language abstracts in Chinese-language academic journals: A comparative analysis of rhetorical moves
Ning Zhao & Nicholas Groom
3. Macro-structural development of empirical research articles in Applied Linguistics and Civil Engineering (1980-2010): Textual evidence and insider perspectives
Kathy Ling LIN
4. Categories of narrative instances in Systemic Functional Linguistics: Exploring a more flexible generic structure for 'recounts'
Grisel S. Salmaso
5. Retraction notices as a high-stakes academic genre: A move analysis
Shaoxiong (Brian) Xu & Guangwei Hu
6. Rhetorical analysis of philanthropic fundraising letters in a Ghanaian university
Joseph B. A. Afful
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Lexicogrammatical resources
7. A corpus-based study of discourse markers in secondary student talk
Ivy W. S. Chan & Jim Y. H. Chan
8. Construing symbolic exchange in academic registers of Spanish: Sayers and projection in linguistics articles in Colombian journals
Jesús David Guerra Lyons & Gillian Moss
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Multisemiotic analysis
9. Genre, pedagogy, and PowerPoint design: A multimodal move analysis of linguistics lecture slides
Dezheng (William) Feng
10. The multimodal genre of synchronous videoconferencing lectures: An eclectic framework to analyse interaction
Mercedes Querol-Julián
11. Identifying creative metaphor in video ads
Molly Xie Pan & Dennis Tay
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Genre in pedagogic and professional settings
12. Combining genre analysis and corpus consultation in class: Using do-it-yourself corpora to explore the literature review
Maggie Charles
13. When the office meets textbooks: Juxtaposing multiple perspectives to develop teachers’ knowledge of workplace genres and to enhance the teaching of workplace writing
An Cheng
14. Hybridity in a specialized genre: Training log book entries in professional construction engineering
Cindy Tsui Ying Yu & Christoph A. Hafner
Biography
Kathy Ling LIN is a lecturer at the Research Centre for Corpora and Intercultural Studies, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. She received her Ph.D. from Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She is contributor to ‘Corpus-based Approaches to Grammar, Media and Health Discourses’ (Springer, 2020).
Isaac N. Mwinlaaru is Lecturer at the Department of English, University of Cape Coast, and was Visiting Lecturer at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His award-wining PhD thesis is a discourse-based grammar of Dagaare. He is contributor to ‘The Routledge Handbook of African Linguistics’ (2018).
Dennis Tay is Associate Professor at the Department of English, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He holds a PhD in Linguistics and MSc in Quantitative Analysis and Computational Mathematics. His most recent book is ‘Time Series Analysis of Discourse. Method and Case Studies’ (Routledge, 2019).
