Book Reviews by JIAWEI WANG
Journal of Linguistics, 2021
International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 2020
The International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law, 2019
This volume, an addition to the Studies in Corpus Linguistics series, collates insightful and inn... more This volume, an addition to the Studies in Corpus Linguistics series, collates insightful and innovative articles and examines linguistic variation across a comprehensive range of legal discourses using advanced corpus tools to reveal synchronic and diachronic changes in legal language. Corpus-based Research on Variation in English Legal Discourse focuses on the Corpus of Historical English Law Reports 1535-1999 (CHELAR) and distinguishes itself in the way that it characterises linguistic representations in discipline-specific corpora while exploring a multitude of sub-genres of forensic discourse.
Papers by JIAWEI WANG
Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 2023
The purpose of this study is to profile the genre of reply, response, and rejoinder articles (3R)... more The purpose of this study is to profile the genre of reply, response, and rejoinder articles (3R) on a corpus of 480 texts sourced from the disciplines of History, Linguistics, Biology, Psychology, Chemistry, Physics, Politics, and Economics. A novel multi-dimensional model based on 124 linguistic features was developed on five functional dimensions: i. Literate vs. oral production, ii. Non-technical stance vs. specialized informational density, iii. Ethos-oriented non-narrative vs. logos-oriented narrative concerns, iv. Elaborated persuasion, and v. Overt expression of evaluation. The findings concerning disciplinary and diachronic variations across dimensions suggest: i. provided that 3R articles are heavily stance-loaded, relatively informative, and eloquently persuasive forms of academic discourse in nature, the genre of 3R in soft disciplines is literal, nontechnical attitudinal, ethos-oriented non-narrative, elaborately persuasive and overtly evaluative, whereas it is oral, specialized information-dense narrative, logos-oriented persuasive and evaluative in hard disciplines; ii. the dimensions of evaluation, informativeness, and persuasiveness are the functional constants of the 3R genre across disciplines and time, despite significant discrepancies detected in the functional representation of oral/literate style and elaborated persuasion. These findings are relevant to the study of disciplinary rhetoric and may contribute to advanced genre pedagogy in EAP, ESP and EPP studies.
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Book Reviews by JIAWEI WANG
Papers by JIAWEI WANG