Brno Studies in English
Volume 38, No. 2, 2012
ISSN 0524-6881
Written Academic Discourse: Anglo-American
Traditions in the European Context
Edited by
Jana CHAMONIKOLASOVÁ, Jan CHOVANEC and Renata KAMENICKÁ
Contents
Jan Chovanec: Written Academic Discourse in English: From Local Traditions
to Global Outreach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Savka BLAGOJEVIĆ and Biljana MIŠIĆ ILIĆ: Interrogatives in English and Serbian
Academic Discourse – A Contrastive Pragmatic Approach  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Olga DONTCHEVA-NAVRATILOVA: Lexical Bundles in Academic Texts by Non-native
Speakers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Maurizio GOTTI: Cross-Cultural Aspects of Academic Discourse  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Enrique LAFUENTE-MILLÁN: A contrastive Study of Generic Integrity in the Use
of Attitudinal Evaluation in Research Articles Written for Different Audiences  . . . . 79
Rosa LORÉS-SANZ: Local Disciplines, Local Cultures: Praise and Criticism in British
and Spanish History Book Reviews  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Pilar MUR-DUEÑAS: With regard to L2 Academic Writing: The Use of Topicalisers in L1
(English and Spanish) and L2 (English) Research Articles  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Renata POVOLNÁ: Causal and Contrastive Discourse Markers in Novice Academic
Writing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Josef Schmied: Academic Knowledge Presentation in MA Theses: from Corpus
Compilation to Case Studies of Disciplinary Conventions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Reviews
Jan CHOVANEC: Carol Berkenkotter, Vijay K. Bhatia and Maurizio Gotti (eds.): Insights
into Academic Genres  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167