In a global academic environment, increasing attention has been paid to the international use of English for publication purposes. The chapter presents a corpus-based study of the differences between authors’ final versions – seen as a case of writing in English as Lingua Franca – and published versions of papers. The economics component of the SciELF corpus – a collection of unrevised articles by ELF users – is compared to a larger corpus of published articles in Business and Economics. The comparison confirms the “cooperative imperative” of ELF users, though limited to a restricted range of general markers, and suggests a “selling imperative” in the process of revision, emphasizing authorial presence through personal deixis, epistemic markers and lexical cohesion.
Publishing in English: ELF writers, textual voices and metadiscourse / Bondi, Marina; Borelli, Carlotta. - 18:(2018), pp. 217-236. [10.1075/aals.18.10bon]
Publishing in English: ELF writers, textual voices and metadiscourse
Bondi, Marina
;BORELLI, CARLOTTA
2018
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In a global academic environment, increasing attention has been paid to the international use of English for publication purposes. The chapter presents a corpus-based study of the differences between authors’ final versions – seen as a case of writing in English as Lingua Franca – and published versions of papers. The economics component of the SciELF corpus – a collection of unrevised articles by ELF users – is compared to a larger corpus of published articles in Business and Economics. The comparison confirms the “cooperative imperative” of ELF users, though limited to a restricted range of general markers, and suggests a “selling imperative” in the process of revision, emphasizing authorial presence through personal deixis, epistemic markers and lexical cohesion.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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