Language and Discipline Perspectives on Academic Discourse
Language and Discipline Perspectives on Academic Discourse This book represents the physical outcome of the symposium Academic Voices in Contrast, organised at the University of Bergen, Norway, in…
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Language and Discipline Perspectives on Academic Discourse
This book represents the physical outcome of the symposium Academic Voices in Contrast, organised at the University of Bergen, Norway, in May 2006. In this project, a special focus has been put on the study of the voice(s) of the academic author, in the doubly contrastive perspective of language and discipline. The symposium, focusing on recent research within the field of academic discourse, was initiated and organised by the KIAP project (Cultural Identity in Academic Prose; see www.uib.no/kiap/).
They were asked to address issues related to traditional linguistic versus contextual approaches or to interlingual and interdisciplinary similarities and differences in academic discourse. A narrow selection of distinguished scholars were invited to participate at the symposium. By the papers of the following, the symposium and the present book constitute a clear advancement of the research