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Analysing Structure in Academic Writing (Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse)
Tomoko Sawaki
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Description for Analysing Structure in Academic Writing (Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse)
Hardcover. Series: Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse. Num Pages: 294 pages, 13 black & white illustrations, 4 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFGA; CFGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 217 x 22. Weight in Grams: 498.
This book breaks through formalistic traditions to propose a new generic structure analytical framework for academic writing. The integrated approach, taking lessons from cognitive linguistics and structuralism, offers a foundation for establishing research and pedagogy that can promote diversity and inclusion in academia. The simplicity of the flexible structure analytical model proposed by Sawaki enables the user to analyse diverse instances of genre. Further innovation is made in the analysis of generic structure components by integrating George Lakoff and Mark Johnson’s metaphor analysis method, so that the model can account for cultural and ideological patterns that structure our abstract thinking. ... Read more
This book breaks through formalistic traditions to propose a new generic structure analytical framework for academic writing. The integrated approach, taking lessons from cognitive linguistics and structuralism, offers a foundation for establishing research and pedagogy that can promote diversity and inclusion in academia. The simplicity of the flexible structure analytical model proposed by Sawaki enables the user to analyse diverse instances of genre. Further innovation is made in the analysis of generic structure components by integrating George Lakoff and Mark Johnson’s metaphor analysis method, so that the model can account for cultural and ideological patterns that structure our abstract thinking. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Series
Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse
Number of Pages
275
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137542380
SKU
V9781137542380
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99-15
About Tomoko Sawaki
Tomoko Sawaki is an independent researcher and holds a Ph.D. from the University of New South Wales, Australia. Her research interests include English for Academic Purposes, genre analysis, semiotics, cognitive linguistics, and corpus linguistics. Her research has been published in such journals as Journal of English for Academic Purposes and English Text Construction.
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