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Zusatztext '...valuable for researchers interested in a variety of fields! including discourse analysis! academic writing! intercultural communication! and second language writing. They also offer a valuable and stimulating contribution to ongoing discussion of academic review genres.' - Australian Review of Applied Linguistics Informationen zum Autor HELEN BASTURKMEN is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Applied Language Studies and Linguistics, University of Auckland, New ZealandMARINA BONDI is Professor of English and Director of the Department of Studies on Language, Text and Translation, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, ItalyMARIA-LLUISA GEA-VALOR is a Lecturer in English, Linguistics and ESP at Universitat Jaume I, Castelló, SpainDAVIDE SIMONE GIANNONI is a tenured researcher in English Language and Linguistics at the University of Bergamo, Northern Italy and a founding member of the LSP research centre CERLIS (www.unibg.it/cerlis)NICHOLAS GROOM is a Lecturer in Applied Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics and English Language Teaching, Centre for English Language Studies, University of Birmingham, UKMARTA INIGO-ROS lectures on Methodology of Translation and Linguistics at the École de Traduction et d'Intérpretation, Geneva, SwitzerlandROSA LORÉS SANZ is a Senior Lecturer, Department of English and German Studies, University of Zaragoza, SpainANA I. MORENO is a Senior Lecturer in English Philology at the Universidad de León, SpainJUDY NOGUCHI teaches English in Japan.PHILIP SHAW is currently a Professor in the Department of English, Stockholm University, SwedenLORENA SUÁREZ is currently teaching English at the Colegio Jesús Reparador in Burgos, SpainPAUL THOMPSON is a Lecturer in Applied Linguistics, University of Reading, UKPOLLY TSE is an instructor at the Hong Kong Universityof Science and Technology where she teaches English for Specific and Academic Purposes Klappentext This book explores how academics publically evaluate each others' work. Focusing on blurbs, book reviews, review articles, and literature reviews, the international contributors to the volume show how writers manage to critically engage with others' ideas, argue their own viewpoints, and establish academic credibility. Zusammenfassung This book explores how academics publically evaluate each others' work. Focusing on blurbs! book reviews! review articles! and literature reviews! the international contributors to the volume show how writers manage to critically engage with others' ideas! argue their own viewpoints! and establish academic credibility. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Academic Evaluation and Review Genres; K.Hyland & G.Diani PART I: AN OVERVIEW OF REVIEW GENRES Negotiating Research Values across Review Genres: A Case Study in Applied Linguistics; D.S.Giannoni Reviewing Science in an Information-Overloaded World; J.Noguchi Literature Reviews in Applied PhD Theses: Evidence and Problems; P.Thompson Back Cover Blurbs: Puff Pieces and Windows on Cultural Values; H.Basturkmen PART II: DISCIPLINARY VARIATION Reporting and Evaluation in English Book Review Articles: A Cross-Disciplinary Study; G.Diani Discipline and Gender: Constructing Rhetorical Identity in Book Reviews; P.Tse & K.Hyland Phraseology and Epistemology in Academic Book Reviews: A Corpus-Driven Analysis of Two Humanities Disciplines; N.Groom PART III: CROSS-LINGUISTIC VARIATION (Non-) Critical Voices in the Reviewing of History Discourse: A Cross-Cultural Study of Evaluation; R.Lorés Sanz Academic Book Reviews in English and Spanish: Critical Comments and Rhetorical Structure; A.I.Moreno & L.Suárez Historians at Work. Reporting Frameworks in English and Italian Book Review Articles; M.Bondi PART IV: DIACHRONIC VARIATION On the Dynamic Nature of Genre: A Diachronic Study of Blurbs; M-L.Gea-Valor & M.Inigo Ros The Lexis and Grammar of Explicit Evaluation in Academic Book Reviews, 1913 and 199...
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Introduction: Academic Evaluation and Review Genres; K.Hyland & G.Diani PART I: AN OVERVIEW OF REVIEW GENRES Negotiating Research Values across Review Genres: A Case Study in Applied Linguistics; D.S.Giannoni Reviewing Science in an Information-Overloaded World; J.Noguchi Literature Reviews in Applied PhD Theses: Evidence and Problems; P.Thompson Back Cover Blurbs: Puff Pieces and Windows on Cultural Values; H.Basturkmen PART II: DISCIPLINARY VARIATION Reporting and Evaluation in English Book Review Articles: A Cross-Disciplinary Study; G.Diani Discipline and Gender: Constructing Rhetorical Identity in Book Reviews; P.Tse & K.Hyland Phraseology and Epistemology in Academic Book Reviews: A Corpus-Driven Analysis of Two Humanities Disciplines; N.Groom PART III: CROSS-LINGUISTIC VARIATION (Non-) Critical Voices in the Reviewing of History Discourse: A Cross-Cultural Study of Evaluation; R.Lorés Sanz Academic Book Reviews in English and Spanish: Critical Comments and Rhetorical Structure; A.I.Moreno & L.Suárez Historians at Work. Reporting Frameworks in English and Italian Book Review Articles; M.Bondi PART IV: DIACHRONIC VARIATION On the Dynamic Nature of Genre: A Diachronic Study of Blurbs; M-L.Gea-Valor & M.Inigo Ros The Lexis and Grammar of Explicit Evaluation in Academic Book Reviews, 1913 and 1993; P.Shaw Index
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'...valuable for researchers interested in a variety of fields, including discourse analysis, academic writing, intercultural communication, and second language writing. They also offer a valuable and stimulating contribution to ongoing discussion of academic review genres.' - Australian Review of Applied Linguistics
