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1	Tradition and Change in Legal English: Verbal Constructions in Prescriptive Texts more books like this by Christopher Williams, Maurizio Gotti (Editor) add to wishlist In this volume the author examines verbal constructions in prescriptive legal texts written in English. Modal auxiliaries such as shall, may and must are analysed, as well as indicative tenses such as the present simple, and also non-finite constructions such as the -ing form and -ed participles. Results are based on specially compiled corpora of ... see all copies from $18.95! new only from $18.95!
2	English Discourse Markers of Reformulation: A Classification and Description more books like this by Maria Milagros Saz Rubio, Maurizio Gotti (Editor) add to wishlist This book deals with the notion of reformulation and more specifically with a group of lexico-grammatical units which help codify and signal the activity of reformulation in English. While discourse markers in English have been described in detail, the area of reformulation is a relatively unexplored area in comparison with languages such as ... see all copies from $90.49! new only from $90.49!
3	English in International Deaf Communication more books like this by Cynthia J Kellett Bidoli (Editor), Elana Ochse (Editor), Maurizio Gotti (Editor) add to wishlist Signed languages are forms of human communication based on visual/gestural perception as opposed to aural/oral. Those profoundly deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals, who learn to sign from an early age, live in a bilingual/bicultural environment composed of deaf and hearing realities and hence learn both the signed and non-signed varieties of ... see all copies from $129.77! new only from $129.77!
4	The Science Review Article: An Opportune Genre in the Construction of Science more books like this by Judy Noguchi, Maurizio Gotti (Editor) add to wishlist This volume presents the science review article as an opportune genre for introducing rhetorical diversity into scientific communities. First, it discusses the theoretical issues involved in applying the notion of a discourse community to that of an international science discourse community and examines the practical issues faced by writers who ... see all copies from $65.95!
5	Studies in Functional Discourse Grammar more books like this by J Lachlan MacKenzie (Editor), Maria Los Angeles Gomez-Gonzalez (Editor), Maurizio Gotti (Editor) add to wishlist This book contains eight studies on Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG), with work by FDG's foremost proponents, who provide both an introduction to the theory and a glimpse of current research projects. FDG derives its name from taking the discourse act as the basic unit of linguistic analysis. Each such unit receives four paralle analyses ... see all copies from $27.98! new only from $27.98!
6	Discourse, Ideology and Specialized Communication more books like this by Giuliana Garzone (Editor), Srikant Sarangi (Editor), Maurizio Gotti (Editor) add to wishlist This book approaches the issue of ideology in specialized communication in professional, institutional and disciplinary settings across domains as diverse as law, healthcare, corporate management, migration, NGOs, etc. What unites the contributors is their commitment to a discourse view of language use, i.e., the view that organisational and ... see all copies from $144.13! new only from $144.13!
7	Discursive Strategies in Multicultural Business Meetings more books like this by Gina Poncini, Maurizio Gotti (Editor) add to wishlist This book explores multiparty, multicultural interaction at international business meetings. It investigates discourse at an Italian company's meetings of its international distributors, conducted mainly in English and attended by participants from different countries in Europe, Asia and North America. Data come from audio recordings of the ... see all copies from $99.00! new only from $142.00!
8	English Modality in Context: Diachronic Perspectives more books like this by David Hart, B.A (Editor), Maurizio Gotti (Editor) add to wishlist This volume presents a collection of papers which consider the phenomenon of modality in the context of English historical linguistics, in particular as a consequence of changes taking place at the beginning of the Early Modern period. The contributions, representing post-Lightfoot thinking, consider semantic and pragmatic approaches to the ... see all copies from $53.95! new only from $53.95!
9	The Directionality of Conversion in English: A Dia-Synchronic Study more books like this by Isabel Balteiro, Maurizio Gotti add to wishlist This book describes three of the main problems that the word-formation process known as conversion presents, namely those related to its definition, its delimitation, and its directionality. The latter constitutes, however, the main focus of the study, which is based on a corpus of over seven hundred lexical units and, more specifically, on 231 ... see all copies from $68.95! new only from $68.95!
10	Explorations in Specialized Genres by Vijay K Bhatia (Editor), Maurizio Gotti (Editor) add to wishlist Genre analysis has become firmly established as one of the most popular frameworks for the study of specialized genres in academic, professional and institutional as well as other workplace contexts. In recent years, genre theory has also developed in the direction of a more comprehensive and powerful multi-dimensional and multi-perspectived ... see all copies from $90.78! new only from $90.78!
11	Method and Data in English Historical Dialectology more books like this by Marina Dossena, Roger Lass (Editor), Maurizio Gotti (Editor) add to wishlist This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the First International Conference on English Historical Dialectology (ICEHD), organized at the University of Bergamo in September 2003. It includes papers on fundamental aspects of English historical dialectology, from Old English to Late Modern English. The papers discuss points in two ... see all copies from $109.32! new only from $109.32!
12	Email - SMS -Mms: The Linguistic Creativity of Asynchronous Discourse in the New Media Age more books like this by Carmen Frehner, Maurizio Gotti (Editor) add to wishlist Are email and SMS forms of writing or speech? This question cannot be answered easily because their registers are hybrid; they make use of both orality and literacy. This book offers an accurate placement of emails and text messages along the written/spoken continuum. Emails and text messages are also compared to letters and phone calls while a ... see all copies from $78.56! new only from $104.39!
13 view cover	Classroom Talk: Exploring the Sociocultural Structure of Formal ESL Learning more books like this by Debbie G E Ho, Maurizio Gotti (Editor) add to wishlist This study explores the field of ESL (English as a Second Language) classroom learning within a formal learning institution. Influenced by the sociocultural theory in SLA (Second Language Acquisition), the book sheds light on the question that has been boggling the minds of language practitioners and researchers: Why is ESL classroom talk the way ... see all copies from $46.95! new only from $46.95!
14 view cover	English as a Lingua Franca in Cross-Cultural Immigration Domains more books like this by Maria Grazia Guido, Maurizio Gotti (Editor) add to wishlist This book explores the cognitive and communicative processes involved in the use of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) within cross-cultural specialized contexts where non-native speakers of English - i.e. Western experts and non-Western migrants - interact. The book argues that the main communicative difficulties in such contexts are due precisely ... see all copies from $72.37! new only from $89.66!
15	Intercultural Aspects of Specialized Communication more books like this by Christopher N Candlin (Editor), Maurizio Gotti (Editor) add to wishlist This volume explores intercultural communication in specialist fields and its realisations in language for specific purposes. Special attention is given to legal, commercial, political and institutional discourse used in particular workplaces, analysed from an intercultural perspective. The contributions explore to what extent intercultural ... see all copies from $65.00! new only from $68.95!
16 view cover	Learning How to Request in an Instructed Language Learning Context. Edited by Eva Alc[n Soler more books like this by Eva Alc[n Soler, Eva Alcon Soler (Editor), Maurizio Gotti (Editor) add to wishlist Interlanguage Pragmatics (ILP) is a field of growing interest. Focussing on the speech act of requesting, the volume provides information about opportunities for pragmatic learning and how pragmatics can be integrated into instructional foreign language learning contexts. In addition, the research reported here provides methodological insights for ... see all copies from $91.04! new only from $91.04!
17 view cover	Studies in Specialized Discourse more books like this by John Flowerdew (Editor), Maurizio Gotti (Editor) add to wishlist This volume brings together a selection of papers originally presented at the Language for Specific Purposes Symposium which took place in Bergamo, Italy from 29 August to 2 September, 2005. In selecting from papers on specialized discourse presented at this conference, the editors have tried to create a thematic unity by grouping the papers ... see all copies from $150.00! new only from $150.00!
18 view cover	The Use of English in Institutional and Business Settings: An Intercultural Perspective more books like this by Giuliana Garzone (Editor), Cornelia Ilie (Editor), Maurizio Gotti (Editor) add to wishlist This book explores the intercultural problems related to the widespread use of English in written and oral communication by native and non-native speakers in institutional and business settings. Each chapter looks at a different set of issues emerging from the confrontation of cultures across national, institutional and organizational discourse ... see all copies from $181.00! new only from $181.00!
19	Vagueness in Normative Texts by Vijay Bhatia (Editor), Jan Engberg (Editor), Maurizio Gotti (Editor) add to wishlist Normative texts are meant to be highly impersonal and decontextualised, yet at the same time they also deal with a range of human behaviour that is difficult to predict, which means they have to have a very high degree of determinacy on the one hand, and all-inclusiveness on the other. This poses a dilemma for the writer and interpreter of ... see all copies from $105.62! new only from $105.62!
20 view cover	Evidence-Based Lsp: Translation, Text and Terminology by Khurshid Ahmad (Editor), Margaret Rogers (Editor), Maurizio Gotti (Editor) add to wishlist This book presents a number of different perspectives on the central theme of 'evidence' and its interpretation in the study of specialist languages and their various uses. The principal topics include text corpora, citation patterns, some challenging dichotomies, terminology and knowledge management, and specialist translation. Each topic is ... see all copies from $135.28! new only from $135.28!
21	Diachronic Perspectives on Domain-Specific English more books like this by Marina Dossena (Editor), Irma Taavitsainen (Editor), Maurizio Gotti (Editor) add to wishlist This volume reflects the results of a workshop on the investigation of specialized discourse in a diachronic perspective, held within the 15th European Symposium on Language for Special Purposes ('New Trends in Specialized Discourse', Bergamo 2005). The articles deal with developments from the late medieval period to the present day, and the book ... see all copies from $115.95! new only from $115.95!
22 view cover	Modern Approaches to Terminological Theories and Applications more books like this by Heribert Picht (Editor), Maurizio Gotti (Editor) add to wishlist This volume comprises contributions originally presented at the 15th European Symposium on Languages for Special Purposes held at the University of Bergamo on 29 August - 2 September 2005. The volume is divided into four parts: Approaches to Terminological Theories; Terms in Discourse; Knowledge Elicitation, Ordering and Management; Term ... see all copies from $105.68! new only from $105.68!
23 view cover	Advances in Medical Discourse Analysis: Oral and Written Contexts more books like this by Maurizio Gotti (Editor), Francoise Salager-Meyer (Editor) add to wishlist The focus of this volume is on medical discourse, a domain of language which deserves closer scrutiny by academics as well as practitioners, due to its increasing relevance and pervasiveness in modern society. Despite the wealth of publications dealing with specialized or academic discourse and its rhetoric, few of these are devoted specifically ... see all copies from $55.37! new only from $55.37!
24	Asian Business Discourse(s) more books like this by Francesca Bargiela-Chiappini (Editor), Maurizio Gotti (Editor) add to wishlist This book reflects the vigorous interest in studies of business discourse(s) and culture(s) emerging from various Asian communities. It also records the diversity of methodological approaches, ontological perspectives and topics characterising a number of studies conducted by Asian and Western scholars on cultural and linguistic strategies and ... see all copies from $44.94! new only from $44.94!
25 view cover	Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition more books like this by Qing Ma, Maurizio Gotti (Editor) add to wishlist This book offers readers a basic grounding in L2 vocabulary acquisition. In addition, it provides theoretical analyses and empirical data regarding Chinese learners of English: their specific learning difficulties, needs, strategies, etc. The book provides an overview of the research in L2 vocabulary acquisition in the last two decades. Linguistic ... see all copies from $106.75!

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