Academic Vocabulary in Context (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783034304269)

Vendor: Maurizio Gotti
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Format: Paperback
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Academic Vocabulary in Context

$90.50

Academic Vocabulary in Context

$90.50
Format: Paperback
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Academic texts present subject-specific ideas within a subject-independent framework. This book accounts for the presence of academic words in academic writing by exploring recurring patterns of function in texts representing different subject areas. The book presents a framework which describes academic word use at the ideational, textual and interpersonal levels. Functional categories are presented and illustrated which explain the role of academic words alongside general purpose and technical terms. The author examines biomedical research articles, and journal articles from arts, commerce and law. A comparable analysis focuses on university textbook chapters. Case studies investigate patterns of functionality within the main sections of research articles, compare word use in academic and non-academic texts reporting on the same research, and explore the carrier word function of academic vocabulary. The study concludes by looking at historical and contemporary processes which have shaped the presence of academic vocabulary in the English lexicon.

Author: Maurizio Gotti,David Hirsh
ISBN-10: 3034304269
ISBN-13: 9783034304269
Publisher: Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic P
Language: English
Published: 05/29/2010
Pages: 217
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.70h x 5.80w x 0.60d
By Maurizio Gotti
By Maurizio Gotti
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The Author: David Hirsh is a lecturer in TESOL at the University of Sydney. His main research areas are vocabulary development, second language assessment, and academic adjustment. His research has appeared in Reading in a Foreign Language and Revue Française de Linguistique Appliquée, and in the volumes Teaching Academic Writing and the Continuum Companion to Research Methods in Applied Linguistics. He is associate editor of the University of Sydney Papers in TESOL.

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