Analysing Structure in Academic Writing
This book breaks through formalistic traditions to propose a new generic structure analytical framework for academic writing. The integrated approach, taking lessons from cognitive linguistics and structuralism, offers a foundation for establishing resear
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Analysing Structure in Academic Writing Tomoko Sawaki
Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse
Series Editor Johannes Angermuller University of Warwick Coventry, United Kingdom Judith Baxter Halsecombe House Minehead, United Kingdom
Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse engages in the exchange between discourse theory and analysis while putting emphasis on the intellectual challenges in discourse research. Moving beyond disciplinary divisions in today's social sciences, the contributions deal with critical issues at the intersections between language and society. More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/14534
Tomoko Sawaki
Analysing Structure in Academic Writing
Tomoko Sawaki School of the Arts and Media University of New South Wales Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse ISBN 978-1-137-54238-0 ISBN 978-1-137-54239-7 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-54239-7
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Preface
Unlike many researchers and practitioners in English for Academic Purposes (EAP) who have majored in education or applied linguistics, I came to this field from a literary analysis background. I was doing French literary analysis from a range of perspectives related to modernism, structuralism, postmodernism, and poststructuralism. Genre analysis on world folktale has always been one of my favourite subjects. Thus, I was quite confident when I started genre analysis in academic writing. Soon, however, I found that something was wrong.
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