Overview
- Uniquely focuses on the concept of the research niche, on which no relevant studies having been undertaken so far
- Contributes data from a wide range of academic genres and offers essential information on the ways in which these various genres interact in broader academic contexts
- Provides data from a variety of cultural and linguistic contexts and will be of interest to readers from various cultures
- Prepared by a team of internationally recognized authors
- Will be of interest to both experienced and younger scholars who are beginning to present their research findings to international audiences
- The studies included in this volume represent a variety of methodologies and employ different research tools, thus demonstrating the effectiveness of these methods and instruments in academic discourse studies
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Second Language Learning and Teaching (SLLT)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Expert Writers
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Front Matter
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Conference Participants
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Front Matter
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Non-Research Academic Genres
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Front Matter
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About this book
This book presents a collection of thematically focused articles addressing culture-specific features of academic communication, with a particular focus on communication conducted in English as an Additional Language and directed at multicultural audiences. It comprises papers arranged in four sections: Expert writers, Novice writers and readers, Conference participants, and Non-research academic genres. The book explicitly addresses and is centred upon the concept of a research niche understood as a space to be captured and populated, as a temporary location to move or grow out of in the course of individual professional development from novice to expert, and as a space to consciously reach beyond, delimited by one’s linguistic, cultural, educational, and geopolitical background. Here the niche is approached as a frame of reference for discussion of what is culture-bound, culture-sensitive, and culture-free in the academic community and its practices.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Occupying Niches: Interculturality, Cross-culturality and Aculturality in Academic Research
Editors: Andrzej Łyda, Krystyna Warchał
Series Title: Second Language Learning and Teaching
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02526-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-02525-4Published: 08 January 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-37932-6Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-02526-1Published: 16 December 2013
Series ISSN: 2193-7648
Series E-ISSN: 2193-7656
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 234
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Applied Linguistics, Language Education