Culture and Styles of Academic Discourse / / ed. by Anna Duszak.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 1990 - 1999
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]
©1997
Year of Publication:2011
Edition:Reprint 2011
Language:English
Series:Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 104
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Physical Description:1 online resource (362 p.) :; Num. figs.
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Table of Contents:
  • I-IV
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part 1 Values, attitudes, and doings
  • Cross-cultural academic communication: a discourse-community view
  • Academic writing and cultural identity: the case of Czech academic writing
  • Doing well ... doing badly: An analysis of the role of conflicting cultural values in judgments of relative "academic achievement"
  • Language culture, language awareness, and writing curricula in Polish schools
  • The signs of a new time: academic writing in ESP curricula of Ukrainian universities
  • Developing awareness of the rhetorical and linguistic conventions of writing a thesis in English: addressing the needs of EFL/ESL postgraduate students
  • Mind your metaphors! Historical and theoretical notes toward a constructivist theory of metaphor in scientific communication
  • Systems of reference in intellectual discourse: a potential source of intercultural stereotypes
  • Part 2 Interpersonal meanings in academic discourse: The case of hedging
  • Modalization: Probability – an exploration into its role in academic writing
  • Some observations on the distribution and function of hedging in German and English academic writing
  • Hedging in English and Bulgarian academic writing
  • The effects of hedges and gender on the attitudes of readers in the United States toward material in a science textbook
  • Part 3 Variation in the genre
  • Journal abstracts from three academic fields in the United States and Sweden: national or disciplinary proclivities?
  • Research article introductions in Malay: Rhetoric in an emerging research community
  • If not given, then what? Things that come first in academic discourse
  • Analyzing digressiveness in Polish academic texts
  • Inference in science and popular science
  • Index