Publisher's Synopsis
Cultural expectations and socio-pragmatic failure in academic writing, M. and T.Bloor; the testing of "Appropriate Behaviour" in an academic context, H.Coleman; how critical can you get?, K.Richards and J.Skelton; socialization into the academic community - linguistic and stylistic expectations of Ph.D. thesis as revealed by supervisor comments, T.Dudley-Evans; writing across language communities - the structure of Arabic text, M.Akram A.M.Sa'Addedin; talking heads and shifting bottoms - the ethnography of academic seminars, C.Furneaux et al; do you mind if I come in here? - a comparison of EAP seminar/discussion materials and the characteristics of real academic interaction, T.Lynch and K.Anderson; language learning within academic constraints, G.M.Blue; talking to questionnaires or pragmatic models in questionnaire design, G.D.Low.
