English as a GloCalization Phenomenon. Observations from a Linguistic Microcosm

This volume, the third of the English in the World series, raises the long standing debate between the globalization of English in today’s research world and those local English language idiosyncrasies and behavior within particular academic communities. The contributions compiled in this edition thus explore a ‘local adaptation’ of language in a small –but none the less representative– university setting, the University of Michigan. Using multidisciplinary standpoints such as critical discourse analysis, pragmatics, translation, genre theory, functional systemic theory, applied linguistics, language acquisition and language learning pedagogy, the volume intends to shed light on how English language behaves in this particular microcosm and how meanings are constructed by and among the members of the academe. The volume bridges the gap between language research and language teaching/learning and is of direct interest to both linguists, language instructors and translators of English for Academic Purposes. 

Las contribuciones que recoge este volumen describen, desde perspectivas multidisciplinares, la utilización del inglés como fenómeno global/local en contextos académicos. En particular, el volumen toma como referente la utilización del idioma en un pequeño "microcosmos" universitario e interpreta desde distintos enfoques teóricos la construcción de identidades sociales y la negociación de significados entre los miembros de dicha comunidad académica.

CONTENTS

Notes on Contributors

Preface

Editors’ introduction

PART I

THE SOCIAL DIMENSION OF A LINGUISTIC MICROCOSM

1 The complex dynamics of faculty-student relations in dialogic academic speech events: the research group meeting

Claus-Peter Neumann

2 The gender of power relations in academic speech: a crossdisciplinary approach

Mª Teresa Escudero Alías

3 Signaling speaker’s intentions: towards a phraseology of textual metadiscourse in academic lecturing

Carmen Pérez-Llantada Auría

PART II

THE SCOPE OF PRAGMATICS WITHIN A LINGUISTIC MICROCOSM

4 Academic literacy vs academic oracy: signaling nouns as devices of intratranslation

Rosa Lorés Sanz

5 Developing the message: retake phenomena in scientific lectures

Silvia Murillo Ornat

6 A corpus-based approach to nominalization in academic lectures

Ignacio Vázquez Orta

7 The use of ideational grammatical metaphor in academic spoken English

Ignacio Guillén Galve

PART III

PEDAGOGICAL INSIGHTS OF A «GLOCALIZATION» PHENOMENON

8 Vagueness and imprecise numbers in the hard disciplines the MICASE

Ramón Plo Alastrué

9 «I think I know what you are saying». Epistemic lexical verbs as stance markers in American academic speech

Rosario Artiga León

10 «What we mean is actually how we mean». A contribution the analysis of sociopragmatic aspects of MICASE discussion sections

Irene Aixalá Gil

11 How to arrange MICASE-based pedagogical materials for the teaching/learning of EAP vocabulary

Luz Gabás Ariño

Acknowledgements