Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. List of contributors vii
4. Specialized languages 1
5. Section one. Research based on corpora
6. The historical shift of scientific academic prose in English towards less explicit styles of expression 11
7. Heteroglossic (dis)engagement and the construal of the ideal readership 25
8. Structure, content and functions of calls for conference abstracts 47
9. Summarizing findings 71
10. The use of adverbial hedges in EAP students’ oral performance 95
11. Integrating approaches to visual data commentary 115
12. Section two. Research based on meta-analysis and applications in LSP
13. Some dichotomies in genre analysis for Languages for Specific Purposes 139
14. English for legal purposes and domain-specific cultural awareness 155
15. The Talking Cure 175
16. UrgentiAS, a lexical database for medical students in clinical placements 191
17. Using natural language patterns for the development of ontologies 211
18. Notes on contributors 231
19. Index 237