Dialogicity in written specialised genres / edited by Luz Gil-Salom, Carmen Soler-Monreal.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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Dialogicity in Written Specialised Genres; Editorial page ; Title page ; LCC data ; Table of contents; Introduction; Foreword; Dialogue, community and persuasion in research writing; 1. Introduction ; 2. Academic discourse and dialogue; 3. Stance and engagement; 4. Disciplinary dialogues: Interactions in research papers; 5. Dialogue and the writer: Taking a stance; 6. Dialogue and the reader: Engaging with the discipline; 7. Conclusions; References; Part I. Authorial stance and the construction of readership; Chapter 1. Academic voices and claims: Reviewing practices in research writing.

1. Introduction2. Corpus and method; 3. Results of analysis; 3.1 Types of citations; 3.2 Reporting verbs; 3.2.1 Shielding cited author acts from FTAs; 3.2.2 Shielding writer acts from FTAs; 4. Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References; Appendix; Chapter 2. The role of authorial voice in professional and non-professional reviews of films; 1. Introduction; 2. The data; 3. Film reviews as a dialogic genre; 4. The Engagement system; 4.1 Introduction to the Appraisal system; 4.2 Description of Engagement; 4.2.1 Expansion; 4.2.2 Contraction; 4.3 Analysis of unclear cases.

4.3.1 Doubtful cases between two subcategories of Engagement4.3.2 Doubtful cases between Engagement and other Appraisal categories; 5. A comparative analysis of the Engagement options in the different types of film reviews ; 5.1 Preliminary notes on the analysis of spans; 5.2 Overall findings; 5.3 The English and Spanish reviews compared; 5.4 The professional and consumer-generated reviews compared; 5.5 A comparison of all the subtypes; 6. Conclusions and suggestions for further research; References; Chapter 3. Multivoiced interaction in English and Italian academic review discourse.

1. Introduction2. Materials and methods; 3. Voices in historical book review articles: cross-cultural comparison; 3.1 The voice of the reviewer across cultures: first person subject pronoun I and io; 3.2 First person plural subject pronoun -- 'authorial' we and noi across cultures; 3.3 Reader-inclusive we and noi; 3.4 Reviewer's dialogue with textual voices across cultures; 4. Conclusions; References; Chapter 4. From 'Readers may be left wondering' to 'I'm genuinely puzzled'; 1. Introduction; 2. Corpus and methodology; 3. Results and discussion; 3.1 Attribution markers.

3.1.1 Personal attribution markers3.1.2 Impersonal attribution markers; 3.1.3 Third person attribution markers; 3.2 Engagement markers; 3.2.1 Inclusive pronoun we; 3.2.2 Address form you; 3.2.3 Imperatives; 3.2.4 Questions; 3.2.5 Asides; 4. Concluding remarks; References; Part II. Dynamic dialogic interactions; Chapter 5. Dialogic voices of writers and readers in traveller forums through interpersonality; 1. Introduction; 2. The traveller forum, a 2.0 web genre ; 2.1 E-discourse; 2.2 Tourism and the traveller forum; 3. Interpersonality and voice in writers and readers.

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