Martin Solly

Gebundenes Buch

The Stylistics of Professional Discourse

Beschreibung

The volume proposes a stylistics perspective to investigate the discourse of professional communities. It provides an overview of the evolving field of stylistics and its potential for analysing texts, then goes on to apply these theoretical and methodological tools to three specific communities: healthcare, law and education.

Autor

Martin Solly is Associate Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Turin. His main current research interests are language learning in higher education and specialised discourse in academic and professional settings. He is particularly concerned with the relationship between language and context (institutional, disciplinary, intercultural, community), as well as with how language choice impacts on the construction and representation of identity

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780748691692
• ISBN-10: 0748691693
• Artikelnr.: 46166377