Abstracts and Abstracting
Abstracts and Abstracting

Author: Tibor Koltay

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2010-03-15

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 1780630328

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Despite their changing role, abstracts remain useful in the digital world. Highly beneficial to information professionals and researchers who work and publish in different fields, this book summarizes the most important and up-to-date theory of abstracting, as well as giving advice and examples for the practice of writing different kinds of abstracts. The book discusses the length, the functions and basic structure of abstracts, outlining a new approach to informative and indicative abstracts. The abstractors' personality, their linguistic and non-linguistic knowledge and skills are also discussed with special attention. - Despite the relatively large number of textbooks on the topic there is no up-to-date book on abstracting in the English language - In addition to providing a comprehensive coverage of the topic, the proposed book contains novel views - especially on informative and indicative abstracts - The discussion is based on an interdisciplinary approach, blending the methods of library and information science and linguistics

The Handbook of Comparative Communication Research
The Handbook of Comparative Communication Research

Author: Frank Esser

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-06-19

Total Pages: 569

ISBN-13: 1136514244

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The Handbook of Comparative Communication Research aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of comparative communication research. It fills an obvious gap in the literature and offers an extensive and interdisciplinary discussion of the general approach of comparative research, its prospect and problems as well as its applications in crucial sub-fields of communications. The first part of the volume charts the state of the art in the field; the second section introduces relevant areas of communication studies where the comparative approach has been successfully applied in recent years; the third part offers an analytical review of conceptual and methodological issues; and the last section proposes a roadmap for future research.

Abstracts in Academic Discourse
Abstracts in Academic Discourse

Author: Marina Bondi

Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783034314831

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Drawing on genre analysis and corpus linguistics, the book brings together studies on a genre that is becoming one of the most important in present-day research communication. The chapters are organised into three sections focusing on language and genre variation across cultures and disciplines, as well as on recent language and genre change.