Format:
1 Online-Ressource (311 Seiten)
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Illustrationen
ISBN:
9783035100693
Series Statement:
Linguistic Insights 107
Content:
This volume investigates to what extent existing approaches to pragmatics and discourse shed light on how the form of a text creates stylistic effects. Taking a cross-cultural perspective, this book focuses on five key stylistic features of writing – paragraph structure, length and construction of sentences, organisation of information in sentences, relative formality of vocabulary, amount of nominalisation – widely seen as partly responsible for the different impressions created by academic writing in English and Italian. The author develops a theoretical framework for the investigation of intuitions about stylistic differences from a contrastive point of view. To this end, the book gives an overview of recent scholarly approaches to writing and reading, genre studies, contrastive rhetoric and the notions of style and stylistics, together with an assessment of several individual approaches
Content:
Contents: Five Areas of Cross-cultural Variation – Conceptualisations of Academic Writing – Style Manuals: What Can They Tell Us? – Four Frameworks and Approaches: What Can They Tell Us? – Relevance Theory: Comprehension and Style – Relevance Theory: What Insights Can It Give Us?
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783034300605
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Owtram, Nicola T., 1957 - The pragmatics of academic writing Bern : Lang, 2010 ISBN 9783034300605
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
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General works
Keywords:
Englisch
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Wissenschaftliches Manuskript
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Lehrbuch
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Englisch
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Wissenschaftssprache
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Kontrastive Stilistik
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Italienisch
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Englisch
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Italienisch
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Wissenschaftliches Manuskript
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Textstruktur
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Stilistik
DOI:
10.3726/978-3-0351-0069-3
URL:
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Author information:
Owtram, Nicola T. 1957-
