Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I. Three-fold intercultural analysis
6. Chapter 1. A contrastive (English, Czech English, Czech) study of rhetorical functions of citations in Linguistics research articles 15
7. Chapter 2. How to internationalise and empower academic research? 39
8. Chapter 3. The power of English 59
9. Part II. Two-fold intercultural analysis
10. Chapter 4. “This dissonance” 83
11. Chapter 5. Asserting research status, values and relevance in thesis abstracts of Science and Engineering 105
12. Chapter 6. Chinese writers of English RAs as creators of a research space in a national context 129
13. Chapter 7. Conference abstracts in English 151
14. Part III. Intercultural analysis on the move
15. Chapter 8. Hybrid rhetorical structure in English Sociology research article abstracts 175
16. Chapter 9. Epistemic stance and authorial presence in scientific research writing 195
17. Chapter 10. Publishing in English 217
18. Chapter 11. Not the same, but how different? 237
19. Chapter 12. Evaluation in research article introductions in the Social Sciences written by English as a lingua franca and English native users 255
20. Chapter 13. Exploring ELF manuscripts 277
21. Afterword 299
22. About the Authors 303
23. Index 307