1st Edition

Interdisciplinary Research Discourse Corpus Investigations into Environment Journals

By Paul Thompson, Susan Hunston Copyright 2020
280 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

280 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Interdisciplinary Research Discourse: Corpus Investigations into Environment Journals provides cutting-edge insights into the nature of communication in interdisciplinary research domains. Using a corpus of nearly 12,000 articles taken from 11 journals, this book addresses the key questions that surround writing for an interdisciplinary audience. This books also explores: the ways in... Read more

Chapter 1 Introduction


Chapter 2  Disciplines and interdisciplinarity

Chapter 3  The BEE4 corpus

Chapter 4  Headings in the four journals

Chapter 5  Introductions (and beyond) in four journals

Chapter 6  Words in context: environment, science, important

Chapter 7  Status and disciplinarity

Chapter 8  An explanatory code gloss: in other words

Chapter 9  Multidimensional Analysis: variation between and within journals

Chapter 10  Topic Modelling: what a journal is about

Chapter 11  Conclusion

Biography

Paul Thompson is Senior Lecturer and Deputy Director of the Centre for Corpus Research at the Department of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Birmingham, UK.

Susan Hunston is Professor of English Language at the University of Birmingham, UK.