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Narratives in Academic and Professional Genres

by Maurizio Gotti (Volume editor) Carmen Sancho Guinda (Volume editor)
©2013 Edited Collection 511 Pages
Series: Linguistic Insights, Volume 172

Summary

This book received the Enrique Alcaraz Research Award in 2015.
Through Narrative Theory, the book offers an engaging panorama of the construction of specialised discourses and practices within academia and diverse professional communities. Its chapters investigate genres from various fields, such as aircraft accident reports, clinical cases and other scientific observations, academic conferences, academic blogs, climate-change reports, university decision-making in public meetings, patients’ oral and written accounts of illness, corporate annual reports, journalistic obituaries, university websites, narratives of facts in legal cases, narrative processes in arbitration hearings, briefs, and witness examination accounts. In addition to exploring narration in this wide range of contexts, the volume uses narrative as a powerful tool to gain a methodological insight into professional and academic accounts, and thus it contributes to research into theoretical issues. Under the lens of Narratology, Discourse and Genre Analysis, fresh research windows are opened on the study of academic and professional interactions.

Details

Pages
511
Publication Year
2013
ISBN (PDF)
9783035105254
ISBN (Softcover)
9783034313711
DOI
10.3726/978-3-0351-0525-4
Language
English
Publication date
2013 (April)
Keywords
Discourse Analysis Textual Linguistics Contemporary English and American Language Applied Linguistics
Published
Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2013. 511 pp.

Biographical notes

Maurizio Gotti (Volume editor) Carmen Sancho Guinda (Volume editor)

Maurizio Gotti is Professor of English Language and Translation, Head of the Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Communication, and Director of the Research Centre on Specialised Languages (CERLIS) at the University of Bergamo. His main research areas are the features and origins of specialised discourse. Carmen Sancho Guinda is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Applied Linguistics at the Polytechnic University of Madrid, where she teaches EAP, ESP and in-service seminars for engineering teachers undertaking English-medium instruction. Her research focus is the interdisciplinary analysis of academic and professional discourses and genres and innovation in the learning of academic competencies.

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