清华大学外文系系列学术演讲之一
The Character and structure of American academic speech
John M. Swales
Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, University of Michigan
Fri. (Oct. 28) 10:00-12:00
Room 116, Wennan Building, Dept. of Foreign Languages & Literatures
Dept. of Foreign Languages & Literatures, Tsinghua University
The Character and structure of American academic speech
Is American academic speech more like scholarly prose or more like conversations in cafes? Is it nasty (as revealed by university novels), or is it nice? In this lecture, I make use of the Michigan Corpus of Academic Speech (MICASE) to attempt answers to these questions. In addition, I explore some of the grammatical features of this register and raise the issue of whether we need a different concept of grammar for academic speech from the established one for academic writing. Finally, the pedagogical implications of the findings are considered. |
