Focusing on "English for Academic Purposes", this text demonstrates the scope, theoretical issues and pedagogical concerns of discourse analysis within academic contexts. The book discusses both written and spoken discourse and offers research methodologies with practical applic…
This guide provides a framework, starting from simple statements, for writing papers for submission to peer-reviewed journals. It also describes how to address reviewers' comments, approaches for composing other types of scientific communications, and key linguistic aspects of s…
This work discusses the discourse of silence and looks at how people relate to silence in specific conte×ts. It e×amines the application of semiotic tools to e×plore several facets of silence in everyday conversation, and reviews various studies of silence that have been publish…
An accessible introduction to applied linguistics. This clearly-written, easy-to-understand book is perfect for students whose chosen fields require them to be acquainted with the ways language works - such as future teachers, psychologists, sociologists, and anthropologists - b…
by Zanettin, Federico, Stewart, Dominic, Bernardini, Silvia
This volume offers a cross-section of research by some leading scholars in the field, who offer accounts of first-hand experience and theoretical insights into the various ways of building and using appropriate corpora in translation teaching.
English is the language of science today. No matter which languages you know, if you want your work seen, studied, and cited, you need to publish in English. But that hasn't always been the case. Though there was a time when Latin dominated the field, for centuries science has b…
