This book is about investigating the way people use language in speech and writing. It
introduces the corpus-based approach to linguistics, based on analysis of large databases …

Why do engineers" report" while philosophers" argue" and biologists" describe"? In the
Michigan Classics Edition of Disciplinary Discourses: Social Interactions in …

Bloomsbury Classics in Linguistics revisits the highlights and cornerstones of Bloomsbury's
extensive linguistics back list. These books are newly typeset and reissued in affordable …

This book is intended as an introduction to academic discourse in English and is written for
students, general readers and specialists in other areas of applied linguistics or language …

Over the past centuries, several forces have tended to suppress our consciousness of the
rhetorical, communicative and symbolic character of scientific knowledge-thereby …

Much of the literature concerning participant relationships in academic writing has discussed
features that project the stance, identity, or credibility of the writer, rather than examining how …

The view of academic discourse as a rhetorical activity involving interactions between
writers and readers is now central to most perspectives on EAP, but these interactions are …

This paper explores the possible role of university textbooks in students acquisition ofa
specialised disciplinary literacy, focusing on the use of metadiscourse as a manifestation of …

This article critiques thedominant view'of the popularization of science that takes it as a one-
way process of simplification, one in which scientific articles are the originals of knowledge …

'… puts down a marker for the debate in this field. It gathers up work done over the last two
decades or so, in Australia, in the US and in the UK, and presents it in a generous …