Book: Narratives in Academic and Professional Genres

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Title: Narratives in Academic and Professional Genres
Series Title: Linguistic Insights – Volume 172

Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Peter Lang AG
http://www.peterlang.com

Book URL: http://www.peterlang.com/?431371

Editor: Maurizio Gotti
Editor: Carmen Sancho Guinda

Paperback: ISBN:  9783034313711 Pages: 511 Price: U.S. $ 124.95
Paperback: ISBN:  9783034313711 Pages: 511 Price: U.K. £ 77.00
Paperback: ISBN:  9783034313711 Pages: 511 Price: Europe EURO 96.07

Abstract:

Through Narrative Theory, the book offers an engaging panorama of the
construction of specialised discourses and practices within academia and
diverse professional communities. Its chapters investigate genres from various
fields, such as aircraft accident reports, clinical cases and other scientific
observations, academic conferences, academic blogs, climate-change reports,
university decision-making in public meetings, patients’ oral and written
accounts of illness, corporate annual reports, journalistic obituaries,
university websites, narratives of facts in legal cases, narrative processes
in arbitration hearings, briefs, and witness examination accounts. In addition
to exploring narration in this wide range of contexts, the volume uses
narrative as a powerful tool to gain a methodological insight into
professional and academic accounts, and thus it contributes to research into
theoretical issues. Under the lens of Narratology, Discourse and Genre
Analysis, fresh research windows are opened on the study of academic and
professional interactions.

Journal: Language and Sociocultural Theory

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Equinox is pleased to announce a new journal Language and Sociocultural Theory
edited by James Lantolf (The Pennsylvania State University).

Language and Sociocultural Theory is an international journal devoted to the
study of language from the perspective of Vygotskian sociocultural theory.

Articles appearing in the journal may draw upon research in the following
fields of study: linguistics and applied linguistics, psychology and cognitive
science, anthropology, cultural studies, and education. Particular emphasis is
placed on applied research grounded on sociocultural theory where language is
central to understanding cognition, communication, culture, learning and
development. The journal especially focuses on research that explores the role
of language in the theory itself, including inner and private speech,
internalization, verbalization, gesticulation, cognition, conceptual
development, etc). Work that explores connections between sociocultural theory
and meaning-based theories of language also fits the journal’s scope.

Publication and Frequency
2 issues per volume year, April and September (commencing 2014)

For information on contributing and subscribing please see the journal
website:

https://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/index.php/LST/index

With best wishes

Valerie Hall, Equinox Publishing Ltd

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