Confrontation in academic communication / Irena Vassileva.
2023
LB2369 .V37 2023
Linked e-resources
Linked Resource
Online Access
Concurrent users
Unlimited
Authorized users
Authorized users
Document Delivery Supplied
Can lend chapters, not whole ebooks
Details
Title
Confrontation in academic communication / Irena Vassileva.
Author
Vassileva, Irena, author.
ISBN
3031327365 electronic book
9783031327360 (electronic book)
9783031327353
3031327357
9783031327360 (electronic book)
9783031327353
3031327357
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, an imprint of Springer Nature Switzerland AG, [2023]
Copyright
©2023
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiii, 114 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-031-32736-0 doi
Call Number
LB2369 .V37 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification
808.02
Summary
This book examines the argumentation strategies employed by linguists in voicing criticism, looks for explanations for confrontation in academic discourse, and evaluates the positive and/or negative effects it has on international academic communication. Issues such as the role of intertextuality, cross-cultural variations, and the notion of 'academic discourse community' are also touched upon. Special attention is paid to the modern developments in contrastive rhetoric studies, as well as to the controversial issue of the use of context-based versus corpus-based methods. The corpus under investigation consists of academic book reviews in English and German with a clearly stated negative character, as well as a series of publications in English interrelated by the fact that they discuss a common group of problems but from two fully confrontative points of view. They illustrate what has been called an "academic war". Some related theoretical issues are also discussed, including the role of evaluation in academic communication, the relationship between criticism, critique, negative evaluation, and confrontation in academic communication, as well as the importance of culture, discipline culture, and communities of practice. The contrastive discourse analysis demonstrates differences between English and German in terms of the rhetorical strategies employed by review writers to express criticism. The book will be of interest to researchers in the fields of academic communication and rhetorics, as well as teachers in English/German for academic purposes. Irena Vassileva is Professor of English and German Linguistics in the Department of Foreign Languages and Cultures at New Bulgarian University, Sofia, Bulgaria.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Note
Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed August 31, 2023).
Series
Palgrave pivot.
Available in Other Form
Confrontation in academic communication.
Linked Resources
Online Access
Record Appears in
Online Resources > Ebooks
All Resources
All Resources
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Aim and methodology of the study
Chapter 3. Confrontation in academic communication - theoretical background
Chapter 4. The academic book review
Chapter 5. The 'academic war' - a case study
Chapter 6. Confrontation and the academic discourse community Revisited.
Chapter 2. Aim and methodology of the study
Chapter 3. Confrontation in academic communication - theoretical background
Chapter 4. The academic book review
Chapter 5. The 'academic war' - a case study
Chapter 6. Confrontation and the academic discourse community Revisited.