Academic Writing and Reader Engagement

Niall Curry is Lecturer and ASPiRE Fellow at Coventry University, UK.

• List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; 1. Academic Discourse as a Social, Global, and Multilingual Discourse; 2. Academic writing, evaluation, and reader engagement in the English, French, and Spanish research article; 3. Corpus-based contrastive analysis: theoretical foundations and applications; 4. A corpus-based contrastive analysis of direct and indirect questions in English, French, and Spanish; 5. Corpus-based contrastive analysis of question use as a shared rhetorical feature of reader engagement in English, French, and Spanish; 6. Corpus-based contrastive analysis of question function as a shared rhetorical feature of reader engagement in English, French, and Spanish: Part I; 7 Corpus-based contrastive analysis of question function as a shared rhetorical feature of reader engagement in English, French, and Spanish: Part II; 8. Questions as reader engagement in English, French and Spanish: discussion of findings; 9. Closing Remarks; Index

"A rare example of a book presenting excellent original research on academic writing in a multilingual and multicultural context. Academic Writing and Reader Engagement points the way forward to greater inclusion of languages other than English in this important area of language research."Angela Chambers, University of Limerick, Ireland"This volume fills a major gap in contrastive analysis research in academic writing. Curry’s discussion of academic writing across languages and cultures will be immensely useful to researchers examining writing in English, French and Spanish well into the first half of the 21st century. His critique of contrastive rhetoric theories will similarly spark interesting debates in the field about the role of corpora and how to approach comparability in multilingual sites of engagement."Pascual Pérez-Paredes, University of Murcia, Spain"This volume offers comprehensive descriptions of the linguistic patterns of questions as reader engagement devices in economics research papers. It sheds light on the illocutionary force of academic papers written in international languages, showing that science may be multilingual but persuasion is universal".María Luisa Carrió Pastor, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain