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OverviewThis volume investigates to what extent existing approaches to pragmatics and discourse shed light on how the form of a text creates stylistic effects. Taking a cross-cultural perspective, this book focuses on five key stylistic features of writing – paragraph structure, length and construction of sentences, organisation of information in sentences, relative formality of vocabulary, amount of nominalisation – widely seen as partly responsible for the different impressions created by academic writing in English and Italian. The author develops a theoretical framework for the investigation of intuitions about stylistic differences from a contrastive point of view. To this end, the book gives an overview of recent scholarly approaches to writing and reading, genre studies, contrastive rhetoric and the notions of style and stylistics, together with an assessment of several individual approaches. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Nicola OwtramPublisher: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Imprint: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Edition: New edition Volume: 107 Dimensions: Width: 15.00cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.00cm Weight: 0.460kg ISBN: 9783034300605ISBN 10: 3034300603 Pages: 324 Publication Date: 06 October 2010 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationNicola T. Owtram is head of the Language Centre at the European University Institute in Florence, where she teaches English for Academic Purposes. She holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics from University College, London. Her research interests lie in the fields of academic writing, comparative stylistics, and cognitive pragmatics. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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