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ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES:

A WORKING BIBLIOGRAPHY

Introductions

Bazerman, Charles, Shaping Written Knowlege (Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 1988). (especially Chapter 2) Comments from Rae Tsarantani.

Berkenkotter, Carol, and Huckin, Thomas, Genre Knowledge in Disciplinary Interaction (Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1995). (Chapter 1)

Dudley-Evans, Tony, and Maggie Jo St John, Developments in English for Specific Purposes (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1998). Chapter 1. Comments from Gyula Tanko.

Grabe, William, and Robert Kaplan, Theory and Practice of Writing (London, Longman, 1996). (especially 133-140).

Hutchinson, Tom, and Alan Waters. English for specific purposes : a learning-centred approach (Cambridge, Cambridge U.P., 1987).

Hyon, Susan. "Genre in Three Traditions: Implications for ESL". TESOL Quarterly 30 (1996): 693-722.

Levinson, Stephen, "Activity Types and Language," in Paul Drew and John Heritage, eds., Talk at Work (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992).

Miller, Carol. "Genre as social action". Quarterly Journal of Speech. 70 (1984): 151-67.

Paltridge, Brian, Genre, Frames, and Writing in Research Settings (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1997). (Especially Chapters 2 and 3).

Paltridge, Brian "Genre, Text Type, and the Language Learning Classroom", ELT Journal 50 (3) (1996): 237-43. Comments from Agnes Godo.

Swales, John, Genre Analysis: English in Academic and Research Settings (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1990). Comments from Natassa Vasilou.

Sample Analyses

Bhatia, Vijay K., Analysing Genre: Language Use in Professional Settings (Harlow: Longman, 1993). Swales-style analysis.

Martin, J. R., Factual Writing: Exploring and Challenging Social Reality (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1985/1989). An example of the Australian Genre approach. Comments from Gaetenelle Gilquin.

Martin, J. R, and Veel, Robert, Reading Science: Critical and Functional Perspectives on Discourses of Science (London: Routledge, 1998). Review by Greg Myers.

Myers, Greg, Writing Biology: Texts in the Social Construction of Scientific Knowledge (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1997).

Selzer, Jack, Understanding Scientific Prose, (Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 1993). A collection of illustrative studies on one text.

Thompson, Susan. "Aspects of Cohesion in Monologue," Applied Linguistics (1994): 58-75. Comments from Katalin Kollath. Comments from Filippos Tentolouris.

Roberts, Celia, and Srikant Sarangi, "Hybridity in Gatekeeping Discourse: Issues of Practical Relevance for the Researcher" in Srikant Sarangi and Celia Roberts, eds. Talk, Work, and Institutional Order: Discourse in Medical, Mediation, and Management Settings (Berln: Mouton de Gruyter, 1999), pp. 473-503.

Across Cultures

Bailey, Benjamin. "Communication of Respect in Interethnic Service Encounters", Language in Society 26 (1997): 327-356.

Cmerjková, Svetla. "Academic Writing in Czech and English" in Eija Ventola and Anna Mauranen, eds. Academic Writing: Intercultura and Textual issues (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1996), pp137-152. Comments from Agnes Godo.

Connor, U. 1996. Contrastive Rhetoric. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). (especially Chapter 8) Comments from Rae Tsarantani.

Duszak, Anna. "Academic Discourse and Intellectual Styles", Journal of Pragmatics 21 (1994): 291-313.

Evans, Karin U. H. "Organizational Patterns of American and German Texts for Busines and Economics: A Contrastive Study", Journal of Pragmatics 29 (1998): 681-703.

Luchtenberg, Sigrid. "A Friendly Voice to Help You vs. Working Thoroughly Through Your Manual: Pragmatic Differences Between American and German Software Manuals," Journal of Pragmatics 21 (1994): 315-319. Comments from Reka Hajdu. Comments from Gordon Dobson.

Precht, Kirsten. "A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Letters of Recommendation" English for Specific Purposes 17 (1998): 241-266.

Beyond the Written and Spoken Text

Engeström, Y., Engeström, R., and Kärkkäinen, M. 1995. "Polycontextuality and boundary crossing in expert cognition: learning and problem solving in complex work activities". Learning and Instruction 5: 319-336.

Kress, Gunther, and Theo van Leeuwen, Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design (London: Routledge: 1996).

Miller, Thomas. "Visual Persuasion: A Comparison of Visuals in Academic Texts and the Popular Press", English for Specific Purposes 17 (1) (1998): 29-46. Comments from Szilvia Csabi. Comments from Agnes Loch.

Ochs, Elinor, and Susan Jacoby, "Down to the Wire: The Cultural Clock of Physicists and the Discourse of Consensus", Language in Society 26 (1997): 479-505. Comments from Reka Hajdu.

Swales, John, Other Floors, Other Voices: A Textography of a Small University Building (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1998). Review by Greg Myers.

 Veel, Robert. "The Greening of School Science: Ecogenesis in secondary classrooms" in J. R. Martin and Robert Veel, (eds.) Reading Science: Critical and Functional Perspectives on Discourses of Science. (London: Routledge, 1998).

Further Readings in Genre Analysis

Atkinson, Dwight. Scientific Discourse in Sociohistorical Context: The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London: 1675-1975. Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum Associatates, 1999. [uses Biber's Multi-Dimensional Analysis].

Bakhtin, Mikhail . "Speech Genres" in Speech Genres and Other Late Essays. Austin: University of Texas Press.

Berkenkotter, Carol, and Doris Ravotas, "Genre as Tool in the Transmission of Practice Over Time and Across Professional Boundaries," Mind, Culture, and Activity 4 (4) (1997): 256-274.

Gollin, Sandra, "'Why? I thought we'd talked about it before?': Collaborative writing in a professional workplace setting", in Christopher Candlin and Ken Hyland, (eds.) Writing: Texts, Processes, and Practices (London: Longman, 1999), pp. 267-290.

Haarman, Louann . "Performing talk". In Louann Haarman (ed.), Talk About Shows: La Parola e lo Spettacolo, pp. 1-53. Bologna: CLUEB, 1999.

Hutchby, Ian. "Building alignments in public debate: a case study from British TV". Text 17(2) (1997): 161-179.

Ivanic, Roz, Writing and Identity: The Discoursal Construction of Identity in Academic Writing (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1998). (especially Chapters 4 and 8) Comments from Gaetanelle Gilquin.

Mulholland, Joan, "E-mail: uses, issues, and problems in an institutional setting," in Francesca Bargiela_Chiappini and Catherine Nickerson, (eds.) Writing Business: Genres, Media, and Discourses (London: Longman, 1999), pp. 57-84. Comments from Natassa Vasilou.

Prior, Paul. "Response, Revision, Disciplinarity: A Micro-History of a Dissertation Prospectus in Sociology" Written Communication 11 (1994): 483-533.

Rapley, Mark, and Charles Antaki. "'What do you think about . . . ?': generating views in an interview". Text 18(1998): 587-608.

Snyder, I. (Ed.), 1998. Page to Screen. London: Routledge. Comments from Natassa Vasilou.

Valle, Ellen. A Collective Intelligence: The Life Sciences in the Royal Society as a Scientific Discourse Community 1665-1965. Turku: University of Turku, 1999.

Further Readings on Teaching Genre

Bazerman, Charles, "Where is the Classroom?" in Constructing Experience (Carbondale, ILL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1994)., pp. 58-64.

Flowerdew, Lynne. "Integrating 'Expert' and 'Interlanguage' Computer Corpora Findings on Causality: Discoveries for Teachers and Students" English for Specific Purposes 17 (4) (1998): 329-345.

Hinkel, Eli, "Objectivity and Credibility in L1 and L2 Academic Writing", in Eli Hinkel, ed., Culture in Second Language Teaching and Learning (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), pp. 90-108.

Holliday, Adrian, "Assessing Language Needs Within an Institutional Context: An Ethnographic Approach". English for Specific Purposes 14 (2) (1995): 115-126.

Muchiri, Mary , Nshindi G. Mulamba, Greg Myers, Deoscorous Ndoloi, "Importing Composition: Writing in North America and Universities Elsewhere," College Composition and Communication 46 (1995): 175-198.

Picken, Jonathan, "State of the Ad: The Role of Advertisements in EFL Teaching." ELT Journal 53(4) (1999): 249-255. Comments from Szilvia Csabi. Comments from Gyula Tanko. Comments from Agnes Loch.

Thurston, Jennifer, and Christopher N. Candlin, "Concordancing and the Teaching of the Vocabulary of Academic English" English for Specific Purposes 17 (1998): 267-280.

English for Business Purposes

Akar, Didar, and Louhiala-Salminen, Leena (1999). "Towards a new genre: a comparative study of business faxes". In Francesca Bargiela-Chiappini and Catherine Nickerson (eds) Writing Business: Genres, Media, and Discourses, pp. 207-226. Harlow: Longman.

Basturkmen, Helen (1999). "Discourse in MBA seminars: Description for pedagogical purposes". English for Specific Purposes 18: 63-80.

Charles, Marjaliisa (1996). "Business negotiations: interdependence between discourse and the business relationship". English for Specific Purposes 15: 19-36.

Czerniawska, Fiona. (1996). Corporate-Speak: The Use of Language in Business. London: Macmillan Business.

Freedman, Aviva, C. Adam and Graham Smart (1994). "Wearing suits to class: simulating genres and genres as simulation". Written Communication 11: 193-226.

Gimenez, Julio C. (2000). "Business e-mail communication: some emerging tendencies in register", English for Specific Purposes 19: 237-251.

Louhiala-Salminen, Leena (1996). "The business communication classroom vs. reality: What should we teach today?" English for Specific Purposes 15: 37-51.

Nickerson, Catherine (1998). "Corporate culture and the use of written English within British subsidiaries in the Netherlands". English for Specific Purposes 17: 281-294.

Scollon, Ron, and Scollon, Suzanne Wong (1995). "Corporate Discourse" in Intercultural Communication: a Discourse Approach. Oxford: Blackwell.

St John, Maggie Jo (1996). Business is booming: business English in the 1990s". English for Specific Purposes 15: 3-18.

Further Readings on Assessment in ESP

Douglas, Dan. "Why Test Language for Specific Purposes?" in Assessing Language for Specific Purposes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000). Chapter 1. Comments from Gordon Dobson.

Jacoby, Sally, and McNamara, Tim (1999), "Locating competence", English for Specific Purposes 18 (3): 213-241.

Lewkowicz, Jo (2000). Authenticity in language testing: some outstanding questions", Language Testing 17(1): 43-64.

Lumley, Tom (1998), "Perceptions of language-trained raters and occupational experts in a test of occupational English language proficiency", English for Specific Purposes 17(4): 347-367.

Papajohn, Dean (1999). "Effect of topic variation in performance testing: the case of the chemistry TEACH test for international teaching assistants". Language Testing 16(1): 52-81.

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