Álvarez-Gil, Francisco J. / Escritor
This volume aims to showcase research as to
the study of perspectivization in Englishlanguage
academic articles in the field of
tourism. A key aspect of this study is the way in
which writers elaborate and organize information
following their editorial traditions. Interestingly,
complete scientific articles in the field
have not received much scholarly attention. A
first task, therefore, that this book undertakes
is the characterization of the article in terms of
functional stages, according to a framework of
functional linguistics. The methodology also
involves the use of corpus linguistics tools to
analyze linguistic stance devices and to draw
data for their illustration. These linguistic
stance strategies are examined by genre stage
to highlight possible variation in these stages.
The results of this research hopefully would
impact on the study of specialized English for
tourism and on the design of new teaching
materials.
