Commonality and Individuality in Academic Discourse Paperback / softback
Edited by Maurizio Gotti
Part of the Linguistic Insights series
Paperback / softback
Description
This volume explores the relationship between shared disciplinary norms and individual traits in academic speech and writing.
Despite the standardising pressure of cultural and language-related factors, academic communication remains in many ways a highly personal affair, with active participation in a disciplinary community requiring a multidimensional discourse that combines the professional, institutional, social and individual identities of its members. The first section of the volume deals with tensions involving individual/collective values and the analysis of collective vs. individual discoursal features in academic discourse.
The second section comprises longitudinal investigations of the academic output of single scholars, so as to highlight the individuality in their choices and the reasons for not conforming with the commonality of conventions shared by their professional community.
The third part deals with genres that are meant to impose commonality on the members of an academic community, not only in the drafting of specialized texts but also when these are reviewed or evaluated for possible publication.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:408 pages
- Publisher:Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissensc
- Publication Date:04/05/2009
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- ISBN:9783034300230
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:408 pages
- Publisher:Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissensc
- Publication Date:04/05/2009
- Category:
- ISBN:9783034300230
