Download or read book Strategies in Academic Discourse written by Elena Tognini-Bonelli and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2005-12-21 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on theoretical and descriptive issues and techniques in the study of text and discourse. Drawing on a large number of corpora containing academic language, from spoken language to published research papers, the authors approach their subject from multiple angles: The academic language of biology, literature, philosophy, economics, agriculture, linguistics and applied linguistics. The analysis of intertextual features these papers show leads to penetrating results.