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Title: Genre Change in the Contemporary World

Genre Change in the Contemporary World

Short-term Diachronic Perspectives

by Giuliana Elena Garzone (Volume editor) Paola Catenaccio (Volume editor) Chiara Degano (Volume editor)
©2012 Edited Collection 342 Pages
Linguistics
Series: Linguistic Insights, Volume 159

Summary

This volume focuses on the evolution of genres in specialized communication under the pressure of technological innovations and the profound social changes triggered by globalization in the contemporary world, in a context where rapid and extensive changes in communicative practices, patterns and technologies have deeply affected the generic configuration of professional and disciplinary domains.
These developments call for a reconsideration of the repertoires of conventions traditionally identified in each specific genre as well as for a reassessment of the analytical tools used to investigate them, about three decades after the emergence of genre analysis.

Details

Pages
342
Year
2012
ISBN (PDF)
9783035104196
ISBN (Softcover)
9783034312141
DOI
10.3726/978-3-0351-0419-6
Language
English
Publication date
2012 (October)
Keywords
Genre in Specialized Communication The Case of Applied Linguistics Genre Analysis
Published
Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2012. 342 pp.

Biographical notes

Giuliana Elena Garzone (Volume editor) Paola Catenaccio (Volume editor) Chiara Degano (Volume editor)

Giuliana Garzone is Professor of English Linguistics and Translation at Università degli Studi di Milano. Her main research interests are in specialized discourse in its different domains, and in translation and interpreting studies. She has co-ordinated several research projects and published extensively on legal language, scientific discourse, business communication, political discourse and on translation and interpreting. In recent times her research has examined the impact of multimodality on professional communication, focusing on text types and genres embedded in the web-mediated environment. Paola Catenaccio is Associate Professor of English Linguistics and Translation at Università degli Studi di Milano. Her research interests span from second language acquisition to translation and discourse analysis, particulary in LSP. Her most recent contributions focus on linguistic aspects of corporate communication, especially corporate social responsibility discourse. Chiara Degano is Tenured Researcher in English Linguistics and Translation at Università degli Studi di Milano. Her research, mainly grounded in Discourse Analysis integrated with corpus linguistics, has lately centred on argumentative discourse, investigating its realizations across different institutional domains (media, political and legal).

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