Cross-linguistic and cross-cultural perspectives on academic discourse
By: edited by Eija Suomela-Salmi, Fred Dervin.
Contributors: Suomela-Salmi, Eija.; Dervin, Fred, 1974-
Series: Pragmatics & beyond -- new ser., v. 193; Pragmatics & beyond -- new ser., 193.
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub. Co.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9789027254375; 9789027288738
Subjects: Intercultural communication -- Congresses; Cross-cultural orientation -- Congresses; Multicultural education -- Congresses; Discourse markers -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Notes: Selected papers from the conference organized at the Dept. of French Studies at the Univ. of Turku, Finland.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Eija Suomela-Salmi and Fred Dervin; title: Discursive characteristics of AD; title: As academics we are not disposed to say 'I know the world is round; title: ' : marking of evidentiality in Russian and German historiographic articles / Christina Janik; title: Certainty and commitment in the construction of academic knowledge in the humanities / Rebecca Beke and Adriana Bolívar; title: Citation in business management research articles : a contrastive (English-Spanish) corpus-based analysis / Pilar Mur Dueñas; title: A cross-cultural comparison of the functions and sociolinguistic distribution of English and German tag questions and discourse markers in academic speech / Erik Schleef; title: Different voices; title: Polyphony in academic discourse: a cross-cultural perspective on historical discourse / Marina Bondi; title: Academic voices in the research article / Kjersti Fløttum; title: Author identity in economics and linguistics abstracts / Trine Dahl; title: Exploring the polyphonic dimension of academic book review articles in the discourse of linguistics / Giuliana Diani; title: Notes on notes : endnotes and footnotes in Swedish historical and philosophical research articles / Merja Koskela and Tiina Männikkö; title: Cross-cultural rhetoric; title: The use of contrastive strategies in a sociology research paper : a cross-cultural study / Zofia Golebiowski; title: Different worlds, different audiences: a contrastive analysis of research article abstracts / Rosa Lorés-Sanz; title: Spoken rhetoric: how do natives and non-natives fare? / Anna Mauranen; title: Argumentative strategies in conference discussions sessions / Irena Vassileva; title: Construction of concepts in the academia; title: Clash of the Titans : the construction of the human and social sciences by a philosopher and a sociologist / Eija Suomela-Salmi and Fred Dervin; title: Semantic and discursive construction of the 'Europe of knowledge' / Olga Galatanu.