Discourse In The Professions: Perspectives From Corpus Linguistics (studies In Corpus Linguistics, Scl 16)

Discourse in the Professions Studies in Corpus Linguistics Studies in Corpus Linguistics aims to provide insights into the way a corpus can be used, the type of findings that can be obtained, the possible applications of these findings as well as the theoretical changes that corpus work can bring into linguistics and language engineering. The main concern of SCL is to present findings based on, or related to, the cumulative effect of naturally occuring language and on the interpretation of frequency and distributional data. General Editor Elena Tognini-Bonelli Consulting Editor Wolfgang Teubert Advisory Board Michael Barlow Graeme Kennedy Rice University, Houston Victoria University of Wellington Robert de Beaugrande Geoffrey Leech Federal University of Minas Gerais University of Lancaster Douglas Biber Anna Mauranen North Arizona University University of Tampere Chris Butler John Sinclair University of Wales, Swansea University of Birmingham Sylviane Granger Piet van Sterkenburg University of Louvain Institute for Dutch Lexicology, Leiden M. A. K. Halliday Michael Stubbs University of Sydney University of Trier Stig Johansson Jan Svartvik Oslo University University of Lund Susan Hunston H-Z. Yang University of Birmingham Jiao Tong University, Shanghai Volume 16 Discourse in the Professions: Perspectives from corpus linguistics Edited by Ulla Connor and Thomas A. Upton Discourse in the Professions Perspectives from corpus linguistics Edited by Ulla Connor Thomas A. Upton Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam / Philadelphia 8 TM The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences – Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ansi z39.48-1984. Cover design: Françoise Berserik Cover illustration from original painting Random Order by Lorenzo Pezzatini, Florence, 1996. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Discourse in the Professions : Perspectives from corpus linguistics / edited by Ulla Connor and Thomas A. Upton. p. cm. (Studies in Corpus Linguistics, issn 1388–0373 ; v. 16) Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 1. Sublanguage--Data processing. 2. Discourse analysis--Data processing. I. Upton, Thomas A. (Thomas Albin) II. Title. III. Series. P120.S9C666 2004 418’.00285--dc22 isbn 90 272 2287 8 (Eur.) / 1 58811 573 9 (US) (Hb; alk. paper) 2004055952 © 2004 – John Benjamins B.V. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by print, photoprint, microfilm, or any other means, without written permission from the publisher. John Benjamins Publishing Co. · P.O. Box 36224 · 1020 me Amsterdam · The Netherlands John Benjamins North America · P.O. Box 27519 · Philadelphia pa 19118-0519 · usa Contents v Contents Introduction Ulla Connor and Thomas A. Upton, Editors Section I The argument for using English specialized corpora to understand academic and professional language Lynne Flowerdew 1 11 Section II Stylistic features of academic speech: The role of formulaic expressions Rita C. Simpson 37 Academic language: An exploration of university classroom and textbook language Randi Reppen 65 A convincing argument: Corpus analysis and academic persuasion Ken Hyland Section III // æ so what have YOU been WORking on REcently //: Compiling a specialized corpus of spoken business English Martin Warren TOOK // à did you // ä from the miniBAR /