This chapter reviews the history of English for specific purpose's (ESP) research in four
sections: The Early Years (1962–1981), The Recent Past (1981–1990), The Modern Era …

Abstract Clarivate Analytics's Web of Science (WoS) is the world's leading scientific citation
search and analytical information platform. It is used as both a research tool supporting a …

This book is about investigating the way people use language in speech and writing. It
introduces the corpus-based approach to linguistics, based on analysis of large databases …

Why do engineers" report" while philosophers" argue" and biologists" describe"? In the
Michigan Classics Edition of Disciplinary Discourses: Social Interactions in …

Hedges and boosters are important metadiscursive resources for writers to mark their
epistemic stance and position writer–reader relations. Building on previous research that …

Focusing on the introductions to research articles in a variety of disciplines, the author uses
appraisal theory to analyze how writers bring together multiple resources to develop their …

In this book Michael McCarthy and Ronald Carter describe the discoursal properties of
language and demonstrate what insights this approach can offer to the student and teacher …

Our paper examines how selected research articles (RAs) reporting empirical investigations
in applied linguistics proceed from first presenting results to eventually offering final …

This paper reports on an analysis of research article introductions from two related fields,
Wildlife Behavior and Conservation Biology, using Swales'[Swales, JM (1990). Genre …

Disciplinary variation in academic writing has been explored for the most part by comparing
a particular genre, such as the research article, across different disciplines. However, genre …