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Record Nr.

UNINA9910253350203321

Autore

Sawaki Tomoko

Titolo

Analysing Structure in Academic Writing / / by Tomoko Sawaki

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016

ISBN

9781137542397

113754239X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIX, 275 p. 17 illus., 4 illus. in color.)

Collana

Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse, , 2946-6008

Disciplina

401.41

Soggetti

Linguistics - Methodology

Pragmatics

Culture - Study and teaching

Germanic languages

Literacy

Research Methods in Language and Linguistics

Cultural Studies

Germanic Languages

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Prototype Theory and Genre Analysis -- Chapter 3: Revisiting Structuralism -- Chapter 4: The Binary Model -- Chapter 5: Conceptualisation of Generic Structure Components -- Chapter 6: Diversity in Academic Writing -- Chapter 7: Identifying Generic Structure Components -- Chapter 8: In the Midst of Globalisation in Academic Writing -- Chapter 9: Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This book breaks through formalistic traditions to propose a new generic structure analytical framework for academic writing. The integrated approach, taking lessons from cognitive linguistics and structuralism, offers a foundation for establishing research and pedagogy that can promote diversity and inclusion in academia. The simplicity of the flexible structure analytical model proposed by Sawaki enables the user to analyse diverse instances of genre. Further innovation is made in the analysis of generic structure components by



integrating George Lakoff and Mark Johnson’s metaphor analysis method, so that the model can account for cultural and ideological patterns that structure our abstract thinking. Using these integrations, the author has established a structure analytical model that can take into account linguistic, cognitive, and pragmatic aspects of genre. Researchers in the fields of linguistics, discourse studies, cultural studies, education, and English for Academic Purposeswill be able to use this model to identify whether an atypical instance in academic texts is a result of the writer’s individual failure or a failure to understand diversity in academic writing.