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Introduction: Why Looking into Student Academic Presentations?

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The academic presentation is one of the fairly under-researched spoken academic varieties, especially with regard to certain linguistic features that reveal presenters’ attempts to accommodate their listeners. The chapter offers a brief summary of some of the benefits of academic presentations for degree-seeking college students. It also discusses a connection between the strong audience orientation, promoted by many published manuals and materials on giving effective presentations, and the notion of audience accommodation as proposed by Communication Accommodation Theory (CAT). The discussion is followed by a brief overview of the register perspective taken in the analysis of the corpus of student academic presentations (SAP) used in the book and an overview of the rest of the chapters.

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Zareva, A. (2020). Introduction: Why Looking into Student Academic Presentations?. In: Speech Accommodation in Student Presentations. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37980-3_1

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