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Commonality and Individuality in Academic Discourse

by Maurizio Gotti (Volume editor)
©2009 Conference proceedings 408 Pages
Series: Linguistic Insights, Volume 100

Summary

This volume explores the relationship between shared disciplinary norms and individual traits in academic speech and writing. Despite the standardising pressure of cultural and language-related factors, academic communication remains in many ways a highly personal affair, with active participation in a disciplinary community requiring a multidimensional discourse that combines the professional, institutional, social and individual identities of its members.
The first section of the volume deals with tensions involving individual/collective values and the analysis of collective vs. individual discoursal features in academic discourse. The second section comprises longitudinal investigations of the academic output of single scholars, so as to highlight the individuality in their choices and the reasons for not conforming with the commonality of conventions shared by their professional community. The third part deals with genres that are meant to impose commonality on the members of an academic community, not only in the drafting of specialized texts but also when these are reviewed or evaluated for possible publication.

Details

Pages
408
Publication Year
2009
ISBN (Softcover)
9783034300230
Language
English
Keywords
Linguistics Discourse Analysis Contemporary English and American Language
Published
Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2009. 408 pp.

Biographical notes

Maurizio Gotti (Volume editor)

The Editor: Maurizio Gotti is Professor of English Linguistics and Director of the Research Centre on Specialized Languages (CERLIS) at the University of Bergamo. His main research areas are the features and origins of specialized discourse. He is a member of the editorial board of national and international journals, and edits the Linguistic Insights series for Peter Lang.

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