Discourse plays an important role in medicine, and medical discourse in the broadest sense
(discourse in and about healing, curing, or therapy; expressions of suffering; and relevant …

The clinical case report is a popular genre in medical writing. While authors and editors
have debated the justification for the clinical case report, few have attempted to examine the …

" This book describes the most important kinds of texts in English and introduces the
methodological techniques used to analyze them. Three analytical approaches are …

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 …

Routledge Applied Linguistics is a series of comprehensive textbooks, providing students
and researchers with the support they need for advanced study in the core areas of English …

Students who are beginning university studies face a bewildering range of obstacles and
adjustments, and many of these difficulties involve learning to use language in new ways …

The stereotypical view of professional academic writing is that it is grammatically complex,
with elaborated structures, and with meaning relations expressed explicitly. In contrast …

The Routledge Linguistics Encyclopedia is a single-volume encyclopedia covering all major
and subsidiary areas of linguistics and applied linguistics. The 79 entries provide in-depth …

Background: The scientific article in the health sciences evolved from the letter form and
purely descriptive style in the seventeenth century to a very standardized structure in the …

For the first time, the major theoretical and pedagogical approaches to genre and related
issues of social construction are presented in a single volume, providing an overview of the …