Доклад Елизаветы Смирновой «A multi-dimensional analysis of academic discourse: Hard vs. soft sciences»

Аннотация доклада:
Multi-dimensional analysis, originally developed by Douglas Biber to study the differences between written and spoken discourses, has been extensively used as an efficient way to investigate register and discourse variations. I will begin by outlining the dimensions suggested by Biber and the linguistic features they are associated with. I will then give an overview of previous works devoted to the investigation of academic discourse by means of multi-dimensional analysis and demonstrate the application of the method to the corpus of research articles written by professional authors in different hard and soft disciplines.