Introduction1
Ulla Connor and Thomas A. Upton, Editors
Section I
The argument for using English specialized corpora to understand
academic and professional language11
Lynne Fiowerdew
Section II
Stylistic features of academic speech: The role of formulaic expressions37
Rita C. Simpson
Academic language: An exploration of university classroom and
textbook language 65
Randi Reppen
A convincing argument: Corpus analysis and academic persuasion87
Ken Hyland
Section III
so what have YOU been WORking on REcently : Compiling a
specialized corpus of spoken business English 115
Martin Warren
TOOK
did you from the mini$AR :
What is the practical
relevance of a corpus-driven language study to practitioners in 141
Bong Kong''s hotel industry?
Winnie Cheng
"Invisible to us":A preliminary corpus-based study of spoken business
167
English
Michael McCarthy and Michael Handford
Legal discourse: Opportunities and threats for corpus linguistics 203
Vijay K Bhatia. Nicola M. Langton and Jane Lung
Section IV
The genre of grant proposals: A corpus linguistic analysis235
Ulla Connor and Thomas A. Upton
Rhetorical appeals in fundraising direct mail letters 257
Ulla Connor and Kostya Gladkov
Framing matters: Communicating relationships through metaphor in
fundraising texts 287
Elizabeth M. Goering
Pronouns and metadiscourse as interpersonal rhetorical devices in
fundraising letters: A corpus linguistic analysis 307
Avon Crismore