Interdisciplinary Research Discourse

<p><em>Interdisciplinary Research Discourse: Corpus Investigations into Environment Journals</em> provides cutting-edge insights into the nature of communication in interdisciplinary research domains. Using a corpus of nearly 12000 articles taken from 11 journals this book addresses the key questions that surround writing for an interdisciplinary audience. This books also explores:</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>the ways in which writers write if they are writing for an interdisciplinary audience as well as for a specialist disciplinary audience;</li> <p> </p> <li>the different natures and instances of the term 'interdisciplinarity'; and </li> <p> </p> <li>whether an analysis of the rhetorical contexts in which research is relayed to interdisciplinary audiences is critical to understanding interdisciplinary research activities and communications.</li> </ul><p>Written by two leading figures in the field of Corpus Linguistics this is an essential text for researchers and upper-level undergraduates working in the areas of Corpus Linguistics Discourse Analysis and Linguistics in areas of interdisciplinary communication.</p>