Academic voices : across languages and disciplines / / Kjersti Flttum, Trine Daho, Torodd Kinn |
Autore | Flttum Kjersti |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 2006 |
Descrizione fisica | ix, 309 p |
Disciplina | 808.042 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
Gedde-DahlTrine
KinnTorodd |
Collana | Pragmatics & beyond |
Soggetto topico |
Academic writing
Writing |
ISBN |
1-282-15578-4
9786612155789 90-272-9348-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Academic Voices -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Preface and acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 The KIAP project -- 1.2 The KIAP Corpus -- 1.2.1 Corpus statistics -- 1.2.2 Text selection -- 1.2.3 Representativity -- 1.2.4 Text formatting -- 1.2.5 Text encoding -- 1.2.6 Search options -- 1.3 Cultural identity -- 1.3.1 Introduction -- 1.3.2 National identity -- 1.3.3 Academic identity -- 1.3.4 Disciplinary identity -- 1.3.5 Genre and discourse community -- 1.3.6 Cultural identity in KIAP -- 1.4 Previous research -- 2. Theoretical and methodological frameworks -- 2.1 Theoretical framework -- 2.1.1 Main theoretical approaches -- 2.1.2 A polyphonic framework: ScaPoLine -- 2.2 Quantitative methods -- 2.2.1 Our independent variables -- 2.2.2 Article length and absolute frequency -- 2.2.3 Relative frequency and measures based on it -- 2.2.4 Cross-linguistic comparisons and relative frequency -- 2.2.5 Statistical tests -- 2.2.6 Why non-parametric statistics? -- 2.3 Qualitative methods -- 2.3.1 An illustration of method -- 2.3.2 Our use of case studies -- 3. Quantitative results -- 3.0 Introduction -- 3.1 Cultural identities as tendencies in linguistic practices -- 3.2 Is discipline or language the most important factor? -- 3.3 Differences and similarities between disciplines -- 3.3.1 Which differences between disciplines are signifi cant? -- 3.3.2 Similarities between disciplines -- 3.4 Differences and similarities between languages -- 3.4.1 Which differences between languages are significant? -- 3.4.2 Similarities between languages -- 4. Presence of the author -- 4.0 Introduction -- 4.1 Quantitative and comparative results -- 4.1.1 First person subjects -- 4.1.2 Indefi nite pronoun subjects -- 4.2 Author roles -- 4.2.1 Verb groups -- 4.2.2 Author roles and cotext -- 4.3 First person plural subjects.
4.3.1 The reference and functions of first person plurals -- 4.3.2 'We' in combination with two verbs -- 4.3.3 Differences between languages and disciplines -- 4.3.4 'We' and polyphony -- 4.4 "Indefinite" authors -- 4.4.1 Indefinite pronouns in English, French and Norwegian -- 4.4.2 Previous studies on the French indefinite pronoun on -- 4.4.3 Six values of on in French research articles -- 4.4.4 Distribution of on-values -- 4.4.5 Final remarks -- 4.5 Author roles and evaluation in abstracts -- 4.5.1 Introduction -- 4.5.2 Author roles -- 4.5.3 Evaluative elements -- 4.5.4 Summing up -- 4.6 Case studies -- 4.6.1 Pronoun use in individual articles -- 4.6.2 Implicit and explicit references to 'we' in a Norwegian medical article -- 4.6.3 A study of two English abstracts -- 4.7 Concluding remarks -- 5. Reader/ writer interaction -- 5.0 Introduction -- 5.1 Quantitative and comparative results -- 5.2 Metatext -- 5.3 'Let us'-imperatives -- 5.3.1 Types of 'let'-imperatives -- 5.3.2 A classificatory overview of different uses -- 5.3.3 Functions of text composition -- 5.3.4 Rhetorical functions -- 5.3.5 Variation between disciplines, languages and individual authors -- 5.4 Presentation of "results" -- 5.4.1 Introduction -- 5.4.2 Quantitative analysis of RESULT -- 5.4.3 Discussion -- 5.4.4 Analysis of three linguistics articles -- 5.5 Case studies -- 5.5.1 Metatext in three economics articles -- 5.5 2 'Let'-imperatives in a Norwegian economics article -- 5.5.3 Metatext and author manifestation in a French medical article -- 5.6 Concluding remarks -- 6. Presence of the others -- 6.0 Introduction -- 6.1 Quantitative and comparative results -- 6.1.1 Bibliographical references -- 6.1.2 Negation -- 6.1.3 Adversatives -- 6.2 Explicit presence: bibliographical references and citations -- 6.2.1 Four subtypes -- 6.2.2 Quantitative distribution of the four subtypes. 6.2.3 Bibliographical references as grammatical subjects -- 6.2.4 Discoursal and rhetorical functions of bibliographical references -- 6.3 Who can do what? Self, other and verb use -- 6.4 Implicit presence: negation and concessive constructions -- 6.4.1 Introduction -- 6.4.2 Quantitative comments -- 6.4.3 The case of negation -- 6.4.4 The case of concession -- 6.4.5 Summing up -- 6.5 Case study: Negation in individual articles -- 6.6 Concluding remarks -- 7. Conclusions -- 7.0 Introduction -- 7.1 Quantitative results: summing up and discussion -- 7.1.1 Overview -- 7.1.2 The disciplines -- 7.1.3 The languages -- 7.1.4 Gender -- 7.2 Community identity versus individual heterogeneity -- 7.3 Academic voices in harmony and contrast -- References -- KIAP publications -- Appendix A The KIAP Corpus -- Appendix B Statistical tests -- Index -- Pragmatics & -- Beyond New Series. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910817891503321 |
Flttum Kjersti | ||
Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 2006 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Academic voices [[electronic resource] ] : across languages and disciplines / / Kjersti Fløttum, Trine Daho, Torodd Kinn |
Autore | Fløttum Kjersti |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 2006 |
Descrizione fisica | ix, 309 p |
Disciplina | 808.042 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
Gedde-DahlTrine
KinnTorodd |
Collana | Pragmatics & beyond |
Soggetto topico |
Academic writing
Writing |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-282-15578-4
9786612155789 90-272-9348-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910449907503321 |
Fløttum Kjersti | ||
Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 2006 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
|
Academic voices [[electronic resource] ] : across languages and disciplines / / Kjersti Fløttum, Trine Daho, Torodd Kinn |
Autore | Fløttum Kjersti |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 2006 |
Descrizione fisica | ix, 309 p |
Disciplina | 808.042 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
Gedde-DahlTrine
KinnTorodd |
Collana | Pragmatics & beyond |
Soggetto topico |
Academic writing
Writing |
ISBN |
1-282-15578-4
9786612155789 90-272-9348-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783425003321 |
Fløttum Kjersti | ||
Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 2006 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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