List of Contributors

Chapters in this book

1. I-IV I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Contents VII
4. Linguistic and Text-theoretical Research on Languages for Special Purposes. A thematic and bibliographical guide 1
5. The Sociocultural Dimension: The Dilemma of the German-speaking Scholar 49
6. The Symbolic Mode and Secondary Constitution of Meaning. Cultural Semiotic Comments on an Advertisement of the German WWF 68
7. Communication in Literary Studies as LSP 85
8. Contrastive Text Linguistics in LSP-Research: Theoretical Considerations and some Preliminary Findings 103
9. Functional Macro-Analysis of Specialist Text Forms – A Research-method Derived from Foreign Language Teaching 137
10. Texts and Text Types in LSP 158
11. LSP-Research, Philosophy of Science, and the Question-Theoretical Approach – some Tentative Suggestions 167
12. The Fiction in Science Writing 199
13. Corpus Selection in LSP Research 218
14. Some Considerations on the Relations between Text Linguistics and the Study of Texts for Specific Purposes 231
15. A Theory of Text Production, Modification, Reception 244
16. Lexical Knowledge and Text Interpretation 254
17. Communicative Acts and the Constitution of Scientific and Technical Texts 267
18. Summaries 305
19. List of Contributors 315
20. Subject Index 317
21. Name Index 320
22. 323-324 323