Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. 1. The challenges of different settings: An overview 1
4. Section I. Exploring discourse in academic settings
5. 2. '…post-colonialism, multi-culturalism, structuralism, feminism, post-modernism and so on and so forth' : A comparative analysis of vague category markers in academic discourse 9
6. 3. Emphatics in academic discourse: Integrating corpus and discourse tools in the study of cross-disciplinary variation 31
7. 4. Interaction, identity and culture in academic writing: The case of German, British and American academics in the humanities 57
8. Section II. Exploring discourse in workplace settings
9. 5 . 'Got a date or something?': A corpus analysis of the role of humour and laughter in the workplace meetings of English language teachers 95
10. 6. Determining discourse-based moves in professional reports 117
11. 7. // --> ONE country two SYStems //: The discourse intonation patterns of word associations 135
12. Section III. Exploring discourse in news and entertainment
13. 8. Who's speaking?: Evidentiality in US newspapers during the 2004 presidential campaign 157
14. 9. Television dialogue and natural conversation: Linguistic similarities and functional differences 189
15. 10. A corpus approach to discursive construction of hip-hop identity 211
16. Section IV. Exploring discourse through specific linguistic features
17. 11. The use of the it-cleft construction in 19th-century English 243
18. 12. Place and time adverbials in native and non-native English student writing 267
19. Author index 289
20. Corpus and tools index 291
21. Subject index 293