Abstracts in Academic Discourse

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 Lorés-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.

• 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 Lorés Sanz: Lost (and Gained) in Translation: A Contrastive (English/Spanish) Analysis of Rhetorical and Lexicogrammatical Patterns in Sociology Research Article Abstracts – Andrzej Łyda/Krystyna Warchał: Gender and Academicity: Insights from Research Article Abstracts – Geneviève 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 – Françoise Salager Meyer/María Ángeles 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.