Text Type and Texture - Gail Forey
Theme, field and genre: thematic realisations in academic articles and their popularisations
Text Type and Texture - Gail Forey
John Corbett [+]
University of Glasgow
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John Corbett is Professor of Applied Language Studies at the University
of Glasgow. Amongst his publications are ‘Language and Scottish Literature’,
‘Written in the Language of the Scottish Nation’ and ‘An Intercultural
Approach to English Language Teaching’. He currently edits the journal
‘Language and Intercultural Communication’ and he directs the Scottish
Corpus of Texts and Speech (www.scottishcorpus.ac.uk).
Description
Corbett explores the texturing of comparable ideational matter in two different registers. He focuses on a discussion of Theme choice in popular and academic science texts and shows how the differences in the choice of Theme reflect the different communicative purposes.