Academic Writing and Reader Engagement: Contrasting Questions in English, French, and Spanish Corpora

ISBN-13: 9781032011134 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 230 str.

Niall Curry

Opis

This book offers a concise linguistic description of the use and functions of questions in English, French and Spanish and discusses their value to the teaching of academic writing.

Spis treści

List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; 1. Academic Discourse as a Social, Global, and Multilingual Discourse; 2. Academic writing, evaluation, and reader engagement in the English, French, and Spanish research article; 3. Corpus-based contrastive analysis: theoretical foundations and applications; 4. A corpus-based contrastive analysis of direct and indirect questions in English, French, and Spanish; 5. Corpus-based contrastive analysis of question use as a shared rhetorical feature of reader engagement in English, French, and Spanish; 6. Corpus-based contrastive analysis of question function as a shared rhetorical feature of reader engagement in English, French, and Spanish: Part I; 7 Corpus-based contrastive analysis of question function as a shared rhetorical feature of reader engagement in English, French, and Spanish: Part II; 8. Questions as reader engagement in English, French and Spanish: discussion of findings; 9. Closing Remarks; Index

O autorze

Niall Curry is Lecturer and ASPiRE Fellow at Coventry University, UK.