Overview
- Studies the relationship between the writers of specialized text and their readers in a broad range of settings
- Offers younger researchers essential insights into the targeting process
- An invaluable reflective instrument for beginning and veteran researchers
- Represents a way for researchers and students in linguistics and related disciplines to access issues from a different, insider perspective
Part of the book series: The M.A.K. Halliday Library Functional Linguistics Series (TMAKHLFLS)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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About this book
Reader targeting has become a very sophisticated process, with authors often addressing their potential readers even in video. Compared to other forms of writing, academic writing stands out because authors are, in the majority of cases, also consumers of the same type of products, which makes themexcellent “targeters.”
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Emilia Di Martino holds an MA in Education from the University of East Anglia, a PhD in English for Special Purposes from the University of Naples Federico II and is currently an Associate Professor of English Linguistics at Università Suor Orsola Benincasa, Naples(Italy). She is interested in a wide variety of topics, mostly focusing on the nexus of identity, language and power. She is a regular reviewer and sits on the advisory panel for a range of national and international journals. Her latest publication is a research monograph: Celebrity Accents and Public Identity Construction: Analyzing Geordie Stylizations (Routledge, 2019).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Specialized Discourses and Their Readerships
Editors: David Banks, Emilia Di Martino
Series Title: The M.A.K. Halliday Library Functional Linguistics Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8157-7
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-8156-0Published: 17 July 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-8159-1Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-8157-7Published: 05 July 2019
Series ISSN: 2198-9869
Series E-ISSN: 2198-9877
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 125
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations
Topics: Applied Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Intercultural Communication