Academic Evaluation: Review Genres in University Settings

Front Matter....Pages i-vii
Introduction: Academic Evaluation and Review Genres....Pages 1-14
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
Negotiating Research Values across Review Genres: A Case Study in Applied Linguistics....Pages 17-33
Reviewing Science in an Information-Overloaded World....Pages 34-49
Literature Reviews in Applied PhD Theses: Evidence and Problems....Pages 50-67
Back Cover Blurbs: Puff Pieces and Windows on Cultural Values....Pages 68-83
Front Matter....Pages 85-85
Reporting and Evaluation in English Book Review Articles: A Cross-Disciplinary Study....Pages 87-104
Discipline and Gender: Constructing Rhetorical Identity in Book Reviews....Pages 105-121
Phraseology and Epistemology in Academic Book Reviews: A Corpus-Driven Analysis of Two Humanities Disciplines....Pages 122-139
Front Matter....Pages 141-141
(Non-)Critical Voices in the Reviewing of History Discourse: A Cross-Cultural Study of Evaluation....Pages 143-160
Academic Book Reviews in English and Spanish: Critical Comments and Rhetorical Structure....Pages 161-178
Historians at Work: Reporting Frameworks in English and Italian Book Review Articles....Pages 179-196
Front Matter....Pages 197-197
On the Dynamic Nature of Genre: A Diachronic Study of Blurbs....Pages 199-216
The Lexis and Grammar of Explicit Evaluation in Academic Book Reviews, 1913 and 1993....Pages 217-235
Back Matter....Pages 236-245