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Tracks the developmental changes in writing across the schools curriculum, enhancing a key area of research in applied linguistics. Using a systemic functional grammar, this book outlines developmental changes in writing in three major areas of the school curriculum - English, history, and science.

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Shows the nature and importance of academic discourses in the modern world. This book describes the conventions of spoken and written academic discourse and the ways these construct both knowledge and disciplinary communities.

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Shows the nature and importance of academic discourses in the modern world, and offers a description of the conventions of spoken and written academic discourse and the ways these construct both knowledge and disciplinary communities. This title is suitable for students studying TESOL, applied linguistics, and English for Academic Purposes.

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Reveals the complexity of the language used in SMS text communication, and how it exploits various linguistic resources to create identities. This book describes the language used in a corpus of over 11,000 text messages, as yet the largest collection in the UK.

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Reveals the complexity of the language used in SMS text communication, and how it exploits various linguistic resources to create identities. This book describes the language used in a corpus of over 11,000 text messages, as yet the largest collection in the UK.

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Social media such as microblogging services and social network sites are changing the way people interact online and search for information and opinions. This book investigates linguistic patterns in electronic discourse, looking at online evaluative language, internet slang, memes and ambient affiliation using a large Twitter corpus.

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Analyses the importance of the language of time, cause and evaluation in both texts which students at secondary school are required to read, and their own writing for assessment. This book demonstrates through a study of historical texts, that writing about the past requires different genres, lexical and grammatical structures.

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In contrast to studies which have denied that history has a specialised language, this work demonstrates through a detailed study of historical texts, that writing about the past requires different genres, lexical and grammatical structures. It shows that language is a powerful tool for making meaning in historical writing.

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This book addresses an important aspect of how language is used in written communication: the ways that writers reflect on their texts to refer to themselves, their readers or the text itself. This is known as METADISCOURSE.

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This book addresses an important aspect of how language is used in written communication: the ways that writers reflect on their texts to refer to themselves, their readers or the text itself. This is known as METADISCOURSE.

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Cutting edge introduction to news discourse, offering an authoritative guide to analyzing language and images and in print and online.

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Cutting edge introduction to news discourse, offering an authoritative guide to analyzing language and images and in print and online.

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Gives a broad and multifaceted perspective on discourse in the professions. This book explores the dual relationship between discourse and context, outlining how professional discourse is continuously reconstructed in relation to changing contextual frameworks.

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Gives a broad and multifaceted perspective on discourse in the professions. For each of these professions, this book explores the dual relationship between discourse and context, outlining how professional discourse is continuously reconstructed in relation to changing contextual frameworks.

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Writing development has been a key area of research in applied linguistics. Using a systemic functional grammar, this book outlines developmental changes in writing in three major areas of the school curriculum - English, history, and science - as children move from early childhood to late childhood and on to adolescence and adulthood.

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Presents an insightful analysis of the discourse produced by blogs and wikis. This book looks at how blogs and wikis: allow for easier than ever publication; can claim to challenge institutional hierarchies; provide alternate perspectives on events; exemplify globalization; and, challenge demarcations between the personal and the public.

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Presents an insightful analysis of the discourse produced by blogs and wikis. This book looks at how blogs and wikis: allow for easier than ever publication; can claim to challenge institutional hierarchies; provide alternate perspectives on events; exemplify globalization; and, challenge demarcations between the personal and the public.

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Examines approaches to carrying out discourse analysis (DA) using techniques that are grounded in corpus linguistics. This book evaluates a variety of corpus-based methodologies including: collocations, keyness, concordances, dispersion plots, and building and annotating corpora.

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Examines approaches to carrying out discourse analysis (DA) using techniques that are grounded in corpus linguistics. This book evaluates a variety of corpus-based methodologies including: collocations, keyness, concordances, dispersion plots, and building and annotating corpora.

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Provides a fresh overview of the rapidly developing field of workplace discourse, using both genre analysis and a corpus-driven approach

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Provides an overview of the field of spoken and written workplace interaction, taking a fresh perspective on research methods and key issues in the field. This title examines discourse in a wide variety of workplace contexts using both genre analysis and a corpus-driven approach.

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Describes the characteristics, structure and functions of spoken discourse, covering aspects of genre, variation and pedagogy. >