Mapping Academic Values in the Disciplines

A Corpus-Based Approach

von Davide Simone Giannoni

288 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

A broad strand of applied linguistic research has focused on the language of science and scholarship, stressing its role in the construction and negotiation of knowledge claims. Central to the success of such texts is the use of evaluative expressions encoding what is considered to be desirable or undesirable in a given domain. While the speech acts relevant to evaluation have been extensively researched, little is known of the underlying values they encode. This volume seeks to fill the gap by exploring the main facets of academic value in a corpus of research articles from leading journals in anthropology, biology, computer science, economics, engineering, history, mathematics, medicine, physics and sociology. The collocations and qualified entities associated with such variables in the corpus provide insights into how scholars draw on a repertoire of conventional, largely unqualified, axiological meanings instrumental to the production of new knowledge in their field.

• Reihe: Linguistic Insights
• ISBN: 9783034304887
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.07.2010
• Größe: 21 x 14.8 cm
• Verlag: Peter Lang Group AG, International Academic Publishers