Culture and Styles of Academic Discourse / / ed. by Anna Duszak.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: Ahmad, Ummul K.,; Cecchetto, Vittorina,; Cooley, Linda,; Crismore, Avon,; Daneš, František,; Duszak, Anna,; Farrell, Lesley,; Fredrickson, Kirstin M.,; Harres, Annette,; Kopple, William J. Vande,; Koskela, Merja,; Kretzenbacher, Heinz L.,; Kreutz, Heinz,; Lewkowicz, Jo,; Melander, Björn,; Prozorova, Lyubov A.,; Stromska, Magda,; Swales, John M.,; Vassileva, Irena,; Ventola, Eija,; Yakhontova, Tatyana,; Čmejrková, Světla,; Żydek-Bednarczuk, Urszula,
• HerausgeberIn: Duszak, Anna,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©1997
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 104
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (362 p.) :; Num. figs.
• Other title: I-IV --; Contents --; Introduction --; Part 1 Values, attitudes, and doings --; Cross-cultural academic communication: a discourse-community view --; Academic writing and cultural identity: the case of Czech academic writing --; Doing well ... doing badly: An analysis of the role of conflicting cultural values in judgments of relative "academic achievement" --; Language culture, language awareness, and writing curricula in Polish schools --; The signs of a new time: academic writing in ESP curricula of Ukrainian universities --; Developing awareness of the rhetorical and linguistic conventions of writing a thesis in English: addressing the needs of EFL/ESL postgraduate students --; Mind your metaphors! Historical and theoretical notes toward a constructivist theory of metaphor in scientific communication --; Systems of reference in intellectual discourse: a potential source of intercultural stereotypes --; Part 2 Interpersonal meanings in academic discourse: The case of hedging --; Modalization: Probability – an exploration into its role in academic writing --; Some observations on the distribution and function of hedging in German and English academic writing --; Hedging in English and Bulgarian academic writing --; The effects of hedges and gender on the attitudes of readers in the United States toward material in a science textbook --; Part 3 Variation in the genre --; Journal abstracts from three academic fields in the United States and Sweden: national or disciplinary proclivities? --; Research article introductions in Malay: Rhetoric in an emerging research community --; If not given, then what? Things that come first in academic discourse --; Analyzing digressiveness in Polish academic texts --; Inference in science and popular science --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110821048; 9783110636895
• ISSN: 1861-4302
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110821048
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Anna Duszak.