The text compositional architecture of university lectures : an exploration of genre and periodicity in spoken academic discourse

This thesis explores the text-compositional options that are available for the construction of university-style lectures. In doing so, it employs techniques developed by Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) to investigate how lectures are structured in terms of “genre” and the related issue of what...

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Main Author: Blackwell, James Walter
Published: University of Birmingham 2011
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Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.532115