ISBN:
9783823374268
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (351 Seiten)
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Series Statement:
Language in performance 39
Series Statement:
Language in Performance (LIP) 39
Series Statement:
Language in performance
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Sanderson, Tamsin Corpus, culture, discourse
Dissertation note:
Dissertation Universität Freiburg 2006
Keywords:
linguistic
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intercultural communication
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language in performance
;
linguistic behaviour
;
academic context
;
innovative methodology
;
qualitative analysis
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Hochschulschrift
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Hochschulschrift
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Englisch
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Wissenschaftssprache
;
Wissenschaftskultur
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Deutsch
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Korpus
Abstract:
Corpus, Culture and Discourse is a groundbreaking new study of academic discourse across cultures, languages and disciplines that will be of interest to researchers and practitioners in language for specific purposes, corpus linguistics and intercultural communication/pragmatics. Based on a large-scale parallel corpus, the study examines social interaction, identity construction and metadiscourse in English- and Germanlanguage research articles across five disciplines. The innovative combination of quantitative corpus and statistical analyses with detailed qualitative analysis delivers some surprising and interesting results.
Note:
Dissertation erschienen unter dem Titel: Writing science in English and German: a corpus-based study of academic discourse
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