Data in the Analysis of Academic Discourse

Data in the Analysis of Academic Discourse

Professor John Flowerdew

Visiting Professor, Lancaster University

Date:    April 23, 2024 (Tuesday)

Time:   12:45 – 14:00

Mode:  Hybrid Mode

Venue: Room 401-402, Meng Wah Complex, HKU (and zoom)

Chair:   Professor Yongyan Li

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Zoom link:https://hku.zoom.us/j/96656552885?pwd=T3dDSlVJWlptSFRhTzJIVUpYQUtMdz09     

Abstract

This presentation will consider the role of data in the analysis of academic discourse in a number of well-known publications and some of the work of the author. The focus will be on the extent to which these texts promote an analysis from a more text-focussed or a more contextually-focussed perspective. It will be argued that the approach to data cannot be divorced from other dimensions of the research process: research question/goal, theory, method, analysis, and interpretation. Finally, whatever the approach to data, the results of discourse analysis can feed into pedagogy.
 

About the speaker

Professor John Flowerdew is a visiting professor at Lancaster University and an honorary research fellow at Birkbeck, University of London. Previously he was a professor at City University of Hong Kong and at University of Leeds. Notable books are Introducing English for Research Publication Purposes (with P. Habibie) (Routledge); Signalling Nouns in Discourse: A Corpus-Based Discourse Approach (with R.W. Forest) (CUP); The Routledge Handbook of Critical Discourse Studies (with J. Richardson); and Discourse in English Language Education (Routledge). He is active in research and publication and is regularly invited to speak at international conferences.

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