The Handbook of English for Specific Purposes - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0470655321 ISBN 13: 9780470655320

Casa editrice: Blackwell Pub, 2012

Riassunto

Featuring a collection of newly commissioned essays, edited by two leading scholars, this Handbook surveys the key research findings in the field of English for Specific Purposes (ESP).

· Provides a state-of-the-art overview of the origins and evolution, current research, and future directions in ESP

· Features newly-commissioned contributions from a global team of leading scholars

· Explores the history of ESP and current areas of research, including speaking, reading, writing, technology, and business, legal, and medical English

· Considers perspectives on ESP research such  as genre, intercultural rhetoric, multimodality, English as a lingua franca and ethnography

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Recensione:

"English for Specific Purposes has undergone a process of diversification in the latest years. This volume provides a complete overview of today's ESP research, which makes it compulsory reading for any scholar in the field." - Inmaculada Fortanet Gómez, Universitat Jaume I
 
"This handbook is an excellent state-of-the-art survey of research in the field of English for Specific Purposes. As it is both authoritative and user-friendly, it is a precious reference work for both scholars and students." - Maurizio Gotti, Universitą di Bergamo
 
"This excellent volume covers the latest scholarship, research methods, and teaching practices in various areas of ESP. The chapters provide in-depth and accessibly-written perspectives on how ESP intersects with genre analysis, discourse communities, corpus linguistics, multimodal texts, and critical pedagogy." - Sunny Hyon, California State University, San Bernardino

L'autore:

Brian Paltridge is Professor of TESOL at the University of Sydney. He is co-author of Thesis and Dissertation Writing in a Second Language (with S. Starfield 2007), Teaching Academic Writing (with L. Woodrow, D. Hirsh, A. Phakiti, H. Shen, L. Harbon, and M. Stevenson 2009), co-editor of New Directions in English for Specific Purposes Research (with D. Belcher and A. Johns 2011), Companion to Research Methods in Applied Linguistics (with A. Phakiti 2010), and Companion to Discourse Analysis (with K. Hyland 2011), and author of Discourse Analysis: An Introduction (Second edition, 2012). 

Sue Starfield is Associate Professor in the School of Education and Director of The Learning Centre at the University of New South Wales. She is co-editor of the international peer-reviewed journal English for Specific Purposes, and co-author of Thesis and Dissertation Writing in a Second Language: A Handbook for Supervisors (with B. Paltridge 2007). 

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Blackwell Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0470655321
• ISBN 13: 9780470655320
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 577
• Redattore: Paltridge Brian, Starfield Sue