Academic posters: A textual and visual metadiscourse analysis: 214 (Linguistic Insights: Studies in Language and Communication) - Softcover

Book 33 of 76: Linguistic Insights

D’Angelo, Larissa

 
9783034320832: Academic posters: A textual and visual metadiscourse analysis: 214 (Linguistic Insights: Studies in Language and Communication)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 3034320833 ISBN 13: 9783034320832
Publisher: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2016

Synopsis

This volume presents a cross-disciplinary analysis of academic poster presentations, taking into consideration the text and visuals that posters display depending on the discipline within which they are created. As the academic poster is a multimodal genre, different modal aspects have been taken into consideration when analysing it, a fact that has somehow complicated the genre analysis conducted, but has also stimulated the research work involved and, in the end, provided interesting results.
The analysis carried out here has highlighted significant cross-disciplinary differences in terms of word count, portrait/landscape orientation and layout of posters, as well as discipline and subdiscipline-specific patterns for what concerns the use of textual interactive and interactional metadiscourse resources and visual interactive resources.
The investigation has revealed what textual and visual metadiscourse resources are employed, where and why, and as a consequence, what textual and visual metadiscourse strategies should be adopted by poster authors depending on the practices and expectations of their academic community.

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About the Author

Larissa D’Angelo, PhD in Applied Linguistics (University of Reading), is a Lecturer of English at the University of Bergamo. Her main research interests deal with EAP and multimodal genres employed in academic discourse. She is an active member of the Research Centre on Languages for Specific Purposes (CERLIS) and has been involved in several national and international research projects.

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Publisher
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
3034320833
ISBN 13 
9783034320832
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
367