Abstracts in Academic Discourse ─ Variation and Change

Scholars of linguistics and various particular languages explore abstracts as an academic genre, looking at variation across cultures, variations across disciplines, and a diachronic perspective on language and genre change. Among the topics are English and Italian research article abstracts, a contrastive (English/Spanish) analysis of rhetorical and lexicogrammatical patterns in sociology research article abstracts, influences of collocational variations on making the PhD abstract an effective "would-be-insider" self-promotional tool, a structural and cross-generic analysis of abstract quality in complementary and alternative medicine papers, and the development of academic journal abstracts in relation to the demands of stakeholders. Annotation c2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Marina Bondi is Professor of English Language and Translation at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, where she is also Director of the CLAVIER (Corpus and Language Variation in English Research) centre. She has published on various aspects of discourse analysis, genre analysis, argumentation, metadiscourse, evaluative language and corpus approaches to specialised discourse.
Rosa Lores-Sanz is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and German Studies of the University of Zaragoza. She has edited books and published articles in national and international journals on pragmatics and translation, and corpus and contrastive studies (English- Spanish) applied to academic and specialized languages. She is a member of the research group InterLAE.