Academic English as seen by @joshuarothman #appliedlinguistics #writing

Humanities School, Universidad de Murcia “Academic writing and research may be knotty and strange, remote and insular, technical and specialized, forbidding and clannish—but that’s because academia has become that way, too. Today’s academic work, excellent though it may be, is the product of a shrinking system. It’s a tightly-packed, super-competitive jungle in there”. Read the … Read more

Academic discourse: EIDUM 2014-2015

Academic discourse – Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires Source: www.phdcomics.comReferences Biber, D.,  Conrad, S. 2009. Register, genre and style. Cambridge: CUP. Biber, D. Stig Johansson, Geoffrey Leech, Susan Conrad, Edward Finegan . 1999. Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English. London: Longman. Carter-Thomas, S.,   Rowley-Jolivet, E. 2003. Analysing the scientific conference presentation … Read more

EUROCALL2015 Deadline for submissions of proposals 15th February #corpuscall

Submission of abstracts is now open for EUROCALL2015 The 22nd EUROCALL conference will be held at the University of Padova in Italy from 26th to 29th August 2015. The program will include individual papers, symposia, workshops, presentations on EU-funded projects, and posters. EUROCALL conferences are hosted under the auspices of the EUROCALL Association. They bring … Read more