Full Description
Dialogicity in Written Specialised Genres analyses how human beings intentionally establish a network of relations that contribute to the construction of discourse in different genres in academic, promotional and professional domains in English, Spanish and Italian. The chapters in the present volume investigate individual voices, both those assumed by the writer and those attributed to others, and how they act interpersonally and become explicit in the discourse. From a number of different research approaches, contributing authors focus on various textual components: self-mention, impersonation, attribution markers, engagement markers, attitude markers, boosters, hedges, reporting verbs, politeness strategies and citations. The collection is unusual in that it addresses these issues not only from the perspective of English, but also from that of Spanish and Italian. It thus represents a refreshing reassessment of the contrastive dimension in the study of voice and dialogic relations, taking into consideration language, specialised fields and genre. The volume will appeal to researchers interested in language as multidimensional dialogue, particularly with regard to different written specialised texts from different linguistic backgrounds. Novice writers may also find it of help in order to attain a greater understanding of the dialogic nature of writing.
Contents
1. Introduction (by Gil-Salom, Luz); 2. Foreword (by Flowerdew, John); 3. Introductory chapter: Dialogue, community and persuasion in research writing (by Hyland, Ken); 4. PART 1. Authorial stance and the construction of readership; 5. Chapter 1. Academic voices and claims: Reviewing practices in research writing (by Soler-Monreal, Carmen); 6. Chapter 2. The role of authorial voice in professional and non-professional reviews of films: an English-Spanish contrastive study of engagement (by Carretero, Marta); 7. Chapter 3. Multivoiced interaction in English and Italian academic review discourse: A cross-cultural perspective (by Diani, Giuliana); 8. Chapter 4. From 'Readers may be left wondering' to I'm genuinely puzzled': the construction of self and others in fiction book reviewing (by Gea-Valor, Maria-Lluisa); 9. PART 2. Dynamic dialogic interactions; 10. Chapter 5. Dialogic voices of writers and readers in traveller forums through interpersonality (by Suau-Jimenez, Francisca); 11. Chapter 6. A corpus-based study of the discursive creation of a child consumer identity in official tourist information websites vs. opinion forums (by Dolon, Rosana); 12. Chapter 7. Interactions with readers through online specialised genres: specificity or adaptability? (by Yus, Francisco); 13. Conclusion: Stockholm University (by Shaw, Philip); 14. Author index; 15. Subject index
