Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Foreword ix
4. About the authors xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Acknowledgments 5
7. Chapter 1. Discourse genres, academic and professional discourses 7
8. Chapter 2. Written discourse genres 17
9. Chapter 3. Discourse genres in the PUCV-2006 Academic and Professional Corpus of Spanish 37
10. Chapter 4. Academic and professional genres 65
11. Chapter 5. University academic genres 83
12. Chapter 6. Multi-dimentional analysis of an academic corpus in Spanish 101
13. Chapter 7. Automatic text classification of disciplinary texts 121
14. Chapter 8. Rhetorical organisation of Textbooks 143
15. Chapter 9. The Textbook genre and its rhetorical organisation in four scientific disciplines 171
16. Chapter 10. The Disciplinary Text genre as a means for accessing disciplinary knowledge 189
17. Chapter 11. Academic discourse comprehension in Spanish and English 213
18. Chapter 12. Corollary 233
19. References 239
20. Index 253