Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. As academics we are not disposed to say “I know the world is round...” 19
5. Certainty and commitment in the construction of academic knowledge in the humanities 33
6. Citation in business management research articles 49
7. A cross-cultural comparison of the functions and sociolinguistic distribution of English and German tag questions and discourse markers in academic speech 61
8. Polyphony in academic discourse 83
9. Academic voices in the research article 109
10. Author identity in economics and linguistics abstracts 123
11. Exploring the polyphonic dimension of academic book review articles in the discourse of linguistics 135
12. Notes on notes 151
13. The use of contrastive strategies in a sociology research paper 165
14. Different worlds, different audiences 187
15. Spoken rhetoric 199
16. Argumentative strategies in conference discussions sessions 219
17. Clash of the Titans 243
18. Semantic and discursive construction of the “Europe of knowledge” 275
19. Magna Charta Universitatum 294
20. Index 297