Academic Writing: At the Interface of Corpus and Discourse

by Susan Hunston, Diane Pecorari, Maggie Charles

Book Overview

Contemporary research into written academic discourse has become increasingly polarised between two approaches: corpus linguistics and discourse analysis. This volume presents a selection of recent work by experts in academic written discourse, and illustrates how corpus linguistics and discourse analysis can work as complementary approaches.

The overall introduction sets the volume against the backdrop of current work in English for...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441112367
• ISBN13: 9781441112361
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"