Persuasion in Specialised Discourses

DONTCHEVA-NAVRÁTILOVÁ, Olga, Martin ADAM, Renata POVOLNÁ and Radek VOGEL. Persuasion in Specialised Discourses. 1st ed. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, 354 pp. Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse. ISBN 978-3-030-58162-6. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58163-3.

Basic information

• Original name: Persuasion in Specialised Discourses
• Authors: DONTCHEVA-NAVRÁTILOVÁ, Olga (100 Bulgaria, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Martin ADAM (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Renata POVOLNÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Radek VOGEL (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution).
• Edition: 1. vyd. London, 354 pp. Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse, 2020.
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Book on a specialized topic
• Field of Study: 60203 Linguistics
• Country of publisher: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• Publication form: printed version "print"
• WWW: URL
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14410/20:00114710
• Organization unit: Faculty of Education
• ISBN: 978-3-030-58162-6
• Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58163-3
• Keywords in English: persuasion; specialised discourse; ethos; pathos; logos; academic discourse; business discourse; religious discourse; technical discourse
• Tags: topvydavatel
• Tags: International impact, Reviewed

Abstract

This book examines the concept of persuasion in written texts for specialist audiences in the English and Czech languages. By exploring a corpus of academic research articles, corporate reports, religious sermons and user manuals the authors aim to reveal similarities and differences in rhetorical strategies across cultures and genres. They draw on Biber and Conrad’s (2009) model for contextualising interaction in specialised discourses, Bell’s (1997) framework for the analysis of participants roles, Swales’ (1990) genre analysis approach for considering genre constraints and Hyland’s (2005) metadiscourse model for investigating writer-reader interaction. The result is a book which will appeal to researchers and students in Discourse Studies, especially those with an interest in genre and rhetorical strategies.

Links

• GA17-16195S, research and development project: Name: Persvaze v anglickém a českém specializovaném diskurzu

Investor: Czech Science Foundation