Abstracts in Academic Discourse: Variation and Change (Paperback)

Contents: Francisco Alonso-Almeida: Evidential and Epistemic Devices in English and Spanish Medical, Computing and Legal Scientific Abstracts: A Contrastive Study ? Ines Busch-Lauer: Abstracts: Cross-linguistic, Disciplinary and Intercultural Perspectives ? Giuliana Diani: On English and Italian Research Article Abstracts: Genre Variation Across Cultures ? Rosa Lores Sanz: Lost (and Gained) in Translation: A Contrastive (English/Spanish) Analysis of Rhetorical and Lexicogrammatical Patterns in Sociology Research Article Abstracts ? Andrzej Lyda/Krystyna Warchal: Gender and Academicity: Insights from Research Article Abstracts ? Genevieve Bordet: Influence of Collocational Variations on Making the PhD Abstract an Effective ≪Would-be Insider≫ Self-promotional Tool ? Silvia Cavalieri: Variation Across Disciplines. The Case of Applied Linguistics and Medicine ? Anna-Maria Hatzitheodorou: A Genre-oriented Analysis of Research Article Abstracts in Law and Business Journals ? Michele Sala: Research Article Abstracts as Domain-specific Epistemological Indicators. A Corpus-based Study ? Francoise Salager Meyer/Maria Angeles Alcaraz Ariza/Beverly Lewin: Abstract Quality in Complementary and Alternative Medicine Papers: A Structural and Cross-Generic Analysis ? Marina Bondi: Changing Voices: Authorial Voice in Abstracts ? Paul Gillaerts: Shifting Metadiscourse: Looking for Diachrony in the Abstract Genre ? Akiko Okamura/Philip Shaw: Development of Academic Journal Abstracts in Relation to the Demands of Stakeholders.