Academic Discourse and Global Publishing: Disciplinary Persuasion in Changing Times

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of tables
Preface
Acknowledgements
PART I: Academic discourse and rhetorical change
	1. Publish and prosper: The changing face of academic life
		1.1 Times change
		1.2 The rise and rise of academic publishing
		1.3 Why this explosion in academic publishing?
		1.4 Effects of ‘Publish or perish’ on research
		1.5 Journals, specialization and hierarchies
		1.6 Conclusion
		Notes
	2. Understanding language change: Corpora, contexts and rhetoric
		2.1 Scientific language and social context
		2.2 Sociohistorical variability in academic writing
		2.3 Approaches to language change
		2.4 Our corpora and method
		2.5 Conclusions
		Appendix 2.1 Journal list (year of commencement)
PART II: Changes in argument patterns
	3. A multidimensional analysis of change
		3.1 What is multidimensional analysis?
		3.2 Conducting multidimensional analyses
		3.3 Changes in argument patterns in research texts
		3.4 Disciplinary changes in argument functions
		3.5 Some observations and conclusions
	4. Changes in cohesion and coherence: Let’s look at this
		4.1 Cohesion, coherence and
		4.2 Change of attendance: cohesion and discourse organization
		4.3 Change of attending nouns: coherence and knowledge production
		4.4 Some conclusions on rhetorical cohesion
		Note
	5. Points of reference: Changing patterns of citation
		5.1 Citation, knowledge construction and diachronic change
		5.2 Tracking citations
		5.3 Changing patterns of citation: an overview
		5.4 Representation and agency: reporting source material
		5.5 Activity and evaluation: changes in reporting verbs
		5.6 Some observations and conclusions
	6. Changes in self-citation: Cumulative inquiry or self-promotion?
		6.1 Self-citation: practices, perceptions and problems
		6.2 Procedures
		6.3 Self-citation: overall results
		6.4 Disciplinary practices in self-citation
		6.5 Forms of self-citation
		6.6 Self-citation: practices and changes
		Notes
	7. Bundling up: Changes in multi-word combinations
		7.1 Bundles and academic writing
		7.2 Procedures: tracking bundles over time
		7.3 An overview of changes
		7.4 Structural changes in lexical bundles
		7.5 Changes in functions of lexical bundles
		7.6 Conclusions
		Note
PART III: Changes in stance and engagement
	8. Evidentiality, affect and presence: Changing patterns of stance
		8.1 Conceptions of stance
		8.2 Stance in academic writing
		8.3 Searching for stance
		8.4 Changing patterns of stance
		8.5 Shifting commitment and increasing presence – what’s new?
		8.6 Some final observations
	9. Changes in a stance marker: Evaluative that
		9.1 What is it?
		9.2 Evaluative that and its relatives: a brief review
		9.3 Our approach
		9.4 Frequencies of evaluative that
		9.5 Evaluated entities and sources: who evaluates what?
		9.6 Stance and expression: what writers say and how they say it
		9.7 Conclusion
	10. Representing readers: changes in engagement
		10.1 The concept of reader engagement
		10.2 Studying engagement
		10.3 Changing patterns of engagement
		10.4 Reader mention: soliciting solidarity
		10.5 Questions: constructing involvement
		10.6 Knowledge appeals: claiming membership
		10.7 Asides: intimating sharedness
		10.8 Directives: managing readers
		10.9 Some conclusions
		Appendix 10.1 Engagement features
	11. Changes in the rhetorical self: A profile of we
		11.1 What is a lexico-grammatical profile?
		11. 2 Collocates: what comes before and after we?
		11.3 Bundles: recurring sequences of we
		11.4 Syntactic restrictions: grammatical strings with we
		11.5 Semantic preference: what we refers to
		11.6 Semantic prosody: attitude by we
		11.7. Conclusions
	12. Is academic writing becoming more informal?
		12.1 What is informality?
		12.2 Features of informality
		12.3 Identifying informality
		12.4 Trends in academic style: the demise of formality?
		12.5 How is formality changing?
		12.6 Discussion and conclusions
		Notes
PART IV: Epilogue
	13. Pulling it all together
		13.1 An overview of rhetorical change
		13.2 Disciplinary differences
		13.3 Publishing at the sharp end
		13.4 Last words
References
Index