Language and discipline perspectives on academic discourse [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Kjersti Flottum

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910463446903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Newcastle-upon-Tyne, : Cambridge Scholars, 2007
• ISBN: 1-4438-1024-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (288 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): FlottumKjersti
• Disciplina: 401.41
• Soggetti: Scholars - Language; Academic language; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Conference proceedings.
• Nota di contenuto: TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PART I; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; PART II; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; PART III; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
• Sommario/riassunto: This book represents the physical outcome of the symposium "Academic Voices in Contrast", organised at the University of Bergen, Norway, in May 2006. The symposium, focusing on recent research within the field of academic discourse, was initiated and organised by the KIAP project (Cultural Identity in Academic Prose; see www.uib.no/kiap/). In this project, a special focus has been put on the study of the voice(s) of the academic author, in the doubly contrastive perspective of language and di...