Dear Irene
You may find some food for thought in the AWE website's category pon 'AmE'. Look at http://hull-awe.org.uk/index.php/Category:AmE
I'm copying this to the whole EATAW list, of course, in the hopes of generating publicity for AWE, which is now at hull-awe.org.uk It seems useful enough to have generated some 2000 hits a day during last year. Encourzge all your learners to access its simple guides to British usage in academic english!
And a belated Good New Year to you all.
Peter
Peter Wilson,
Editor of AWE (the Academic Writing in [British] English website,
www.hull-awe.org.uk
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From: Clark, Irene L [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 08 March 2016 15:39
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Subject: Re: asking for a student . . .
There are even differences between American and British English in the use of certain terms. In May I will be giving a presentation at the University of Coventry and I will be discussing what I referred to as writing "assignments." Sometimes we call them writing "prompts." Apparently they call them writing "briefs."
"Briefs" for us refer either to summaries of law cases or to men's underwear!
Irene
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> On Mar 7, 2016, at 2:36 PM, Thieme, Katja <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Hello EATAW colleagues,
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> A student of mine is doing a discourse-analytic research project that compares the use of foreign-language terms (but not loan words) in English-language research articles in a journal on Turkish and a journal on Chinese area studies. There are some fascinating differences! As I'm supervising this research, I realize I know no discourse studies / applied language / corpus-based research that studies use of foreign-language terms and words in English-language research writing. Do you? Let us know! Please!
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> Thank you,
> Katja Thieme
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