Occupying Niches: Interculturality, Cross-culturality and Aculturality in Academic Research

This book presents a collection of thematically focused articles addressing culture-specific features of academic communication, with a particular focus on communication conducted in English as an Additional Language and directed at multicultural audiences. It comprises papers arranged in four secti...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Łyda, Andrzej (Editor), Warchał, Krystyna (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
Series:Second Language Learning and Teaching,
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Online Access:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Citation practices of expert French writers of English: Issues of attribution and stance
  • A comparison of author reference in the Spanish context of biomedical RAs publication
  • Positive self-evaluation and negative other-evaluation in NSs’ and NNSs’ scientific discourse
  • A context-based approach to the identification of hedging devices and features of writer-reader relationship in academic publications
  • Prospects of Indonesian Research Articles (RAs) Being Considered for Publication in ‘Center’ Journals: A Comparative Study of Rhetorical Patterns of RAs in Selected Humanities and Hard Science Disciplines
  • Approaches to acculturating novice writers into academic literacy
  • Are they discussing in the same way?: interactional metadiscourse in Turkish writers’ texts.