Academic voices; across languages and disciplines.9027253919 Academic voices; across languages and disciplines. Flottum, Kjersti et al. John Benjamins John Benjamins Publishing Company is an independent academic publisher in social sciences and humanities with offices in Amsterdam (main office) and Philadelphia (North American office). It is especially noted for its publications in linguistics. Publishing Co. 2006 309 pages $138.00 Hardcover Pragmatics pragmatics In linguistics and philosophy, the study of the use of natural language in communication; more generally, the study of the relations between languages and their users. & beyond; v.148 P301 The authors (of Norway's U. of Bergen and the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration) present a research product of the KIAP project (full English title: Cultural Identity in Academic Prose: national versus discipline-specific), which sought to identify if cultural identities can be identified in academic discourse and the extent to which they may be language-specific or discipline-specific in nature. The research focused on comparative analysis of English, French, and Norwegian research articles in the fields of economics, linguistics linguistics, scientific study of language, covering the structure (morphology and syntax; see grammar), sounds (phonology), and meaning (semantics), as well as the history of the relations of languages to each other and the cultural place of language in human , and medicine. It asked questions regarding how article authors manifest themselves in the text, how voices of other researchers are reflected, and how authors present and promote their own research, or the "search for person manifestation as realized through voices and roles. To answer these questions, the use of first person pronouns, indefinite pronouns indefinite pronoun n. A pronoun, such as English any or some, that does not specify the identity of its object. , metatext (such as "see above"), negation NEGATION. Denial. Two negations are construed to mean one affirmation. Dig. 50, 16, 137. , adversatives, and bibliographical references are subjected to statistical analysis. ([c]20072005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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