Narratives in Academic and Professional Genres

Narratives in Academic and Professional Genres - Linguistic Insights : Studies in Language and Communication

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Publisher's Synopsis

This book received the Enrique Alcaraz Research Award in 2015.

Through Narrative Theory, the book offers an engaging panorama of the construction of specialised discourses and practices within academia and diverse professional communities. Its chapters investigate genres from various fields, such as aircraft accident reports, clinical cases and other scientific observations, academic conferences, academic blogs, climate-change reports, university decision-making in public meetings, patients' oral and written accounts of illness, corporate annual reports, journalistic obituaries, university websites, narratives of facts in legal cases, narrative processes in arbitration hearings, briefs, and witness examination accounts. In addition to exploring narration in this wide range of contexts, the volume uses narrative as a powerful tool to gain a methodological insight into professional and academic accounts, and thus it contributes to research into theoretical issues. Under the lens of Narratology, Discourse and Genre Analysis, fresh research windows are opened on the study of academic and professional interactions.

Book information

ISBN: 9783034313711
Publisher: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Imprint: PETER LANG
Pub date:
Edition: New edition 1
DEWEY: 401.41
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 511
Weight: 740g
Height: 224mm
Width: 151mm
Spine width: 27mm