{"id":33,"date":"2008-03-05T11:32:36","date_gmt":"2008-03-05T09:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elanguage.net\/blogs\/booknotices\/?p=33"},"modified":"2008-06-01T17:03:04","modified_gmt":"2008-06-01T15:03:04","slug":"strategies-in-academic-discourse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/?p=33","title":{"rendered":"Strategies in academic discourse"},"content":{"rendered":"

Strategies in academic discourse.<\/strong> Ed. by Elena Tognini-Bonelli<\/strong> and Gabriella del Lungo Camiciotti<\/strong>. (Studies in corpus linguistics 19.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2005. Pp. xi, 212. ISBN 9027222908<\/a>. $126 (Hb).<\/p>\n

Reviewed by Aleksandar \u010carapi\u0107<\/strong>, University of Belgrade<\/em><\/p>\n

The chapters in the collection Strategies in academic discourse<\/em> were selected from contributions to the conference Evaluation in Academic Discourse held in June 2003 in Siena, Italy. The collection deals with theoretical and descriptive issues and techniques in the study of text and discourse.<\/p>\n

In addition to the introduction written by Elena Tognini-Bonelli, the collection contains thirteen chapters. Ch. 1, \u2018Conflict and consensus\u2019 by Susan Hunston<\/strong>, focuses on the \u2018conflict article\u2019 as academic subgenre. Ch. 2, \u2018Subjective or objective evaluation?\u2019 by Julia Bamford<\/strong>, considers expressions of academics\u2019 positions in argumentation, looking at the expressions of (un)certainty in lectures. Ch. 3, \u2018Aspects of identification and position in intertextual reference in PhD theses\u2019 by Paul Thompson<\/strong>, investigates the complexity of averral and attribution in a corpus of Ph.D. theses. Ch. 4, \u2018Authorial presence in academic genres\u2019 by C\u00e9line Poudat<\/strong> and Sylvain Loiseau<\/strong>, considers different styles of authorial presence in linguistics and philosophy, focusing particularly on personal pronouns in French. Ch. 5, \u2018Pragmatic force in biology papers written by British and Japanese scientists\u2019 by Akiko Okamura<\/strong>, analyzes types and tenses of verbs employing the pronoun we<\/em> in British and Japanese scientists\u2019 research articles in English. Ch. 6, \u2018Evaluation and pragmatic markers\u2019 by Karin Aijmer<\/strong>, focuses on the properties of indexicality and heteroglossia to explain the multifunctionality of pragmatic markers.<\/p>\n

Ch. 7, \u2018This seems somewhat counterintuitive, though \u2026\u2019 by Ute R\u00f6mer<\/strong>, considers the ways in which book reviewers make negative evaluations, and examines systematic differences in reviews based on the gender of the reviewer. Ch. 8, \u2018Is evaluation structure-bound?\u2019 by Lorena Su\u00e1rez-Tejerina<\/strong>, focuses on academic book reviews, considering the reviews in her corpus in toto, <\/em>and approaches the question of how evaluation relates to the structure of the review. Ch. 9, \u2018From corpus to register\u2019 by Maria Freddi<\/strong>, deals with partial overlap between expressions of evaluation and argumentation in academic discourse. Ch. 10, \u2018On the boundaries between evaluation and metadiscourse\u2019 by Annelie \u00c4del<\/strong>, deals with the distinction between evaluation and metadiscourse. Ch. 11, \u2018Language as a string of beads\u2019 by John M. Sinclair<\/strong>, focuses on metadiscourse, which he considers a misleading term. Ch. 12, \u2018Academic vocabulary in academic discourse\u2019 by David Oakey<\/strong>, describes the application of the results of vocabulary research to a problem faced by nonnative English speaking students of economics in the UK. In Ch. 13, \u2018Evaluation and its discontents\u2019, Wolfgang Teubert<\/strong> completes the collection with a wide-ranging argument about the contrasts between language as a mental versus social phenomenon.<\/p>\n

One of the strengths of Strategies in academic discourse<\/em> is the number of spoken and written corpora used from discourses in agriculture, (applied) linguistics, biology, economics, literature, and philosophy. Though the quality among individual chapters varies, as a whole they successfully combine corpus linguistics, discourse and text linguistics, and genre-analytical and pragmatic frameworks to weave together a variety of studies of academic discourse into a coherent and solid collection. The book also provides insightful views and new directions in the study of not just academic but other discourses as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Strategies in academic discourse. Ed. by Elena Tognini-Bonelli and Gabriella del Lungo Camiciotti. (Studies in corpus linguistics 19.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2005. Pp. xi, 212. ISBN 9027222908. $126 (Hb). Reviewed by Aleksandar \u010carapi\u0107, University of Belgrade The chapters in the collection Strategies in academic discourse were selected from contributions to the conference Evaluation in Academic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}