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Discourse analysis in professional contexts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 November 2008

John M. Swales
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This bibliographic essay will only consider work published after 1986 in the belief that Volume VII of the Annual Review of Applied Linguistics (ARAL VII, Language in Professional Contexts, 1987) adequately covers earlier material. Professions will be understood in a non-elitist sense which includes service and other occupations )(c.f., Coleman 1989) as well as the more prototypical categories of medicine, law, etc. This essay will also cover those areas of academic discourse that can be reasonably viewed as professional; for example, the publishing of research papers (Myers 1990), the giving of research presentations (Dubois 1987), or the providing of instruction (Briggs, et al. 1990).

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Discourse Analysis in Professional Contexts
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Annual Review of Applied Linguistics , Volume 11 , March 1990 , pp. 103 - 114
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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