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Elizabeth Rowley-Jolivet, Shirley Carter-Thomas. Scientific conference englishes : epistemic and language community variations. Giuseppina Cortese; Anna Duszak. Identity, community, discourse : English in intercultural settings, 18, Peter Lang, pp.295-320, 2005, Linguistic Insights/Studies in Language and Communication series, 978-0-8204-7163-1.

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29 mai 2008
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par Elizabeth Rowley-Jolivet

The two aspects we will focus on are speakers’ organisational and interactional strategies. A conference presentation is an extended monologue of informational discourse, with a logical hierarchical structure. It is also, however, interactional discourse, which takes place at a specific time and place, and before a live audience. We have chosen to study a certain number of features which embody these two aspects.