Claim-making and Claim-challenging in English and Polish Linguistic Discourses

The book presents the results of multi-parameter corpus research on Polish and English linguistic discourses. The results show the changes which English and Polish linguistic discourses underwent between 1980 and 2010, and the extent to which English as lingua franca of modern science affects Polish L1 and English L2 linguistic discourses.

Autorentext
Grzegorz Kowalski is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Applied Linguistics at the University of Warsaw. His research interests include academic and scientific discourse analysis and corpus linguistics. He also authored, edited and contributed to works in the fields of critical linguistics and systemic-functional linguistics.

Inhalt

Contents: Polish linguistic discourse - English linguistic discourse - Corpus linguistics - Discourse - Discourse analysis - Scientific community - Scientific discourse - Corpus linguistics - Claim-making - Claim-challenging - Scientific article - Genre - Hedges - Dialogicity - Self-promotion - Other-depreciation.