English for Specific Purposes: The Preservation of the Species (Some Notes on a Recently Evolved Species and On the Contribution of John Swales to Its Preservation and Protection).

Bloor, Meriel

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ERIC Number: EJ562782

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Publication Date: 1998

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English for Specific Purposes: The Preservation of the Species (Some Notes on a Recently Evolved Species and On the Contribution of John Swales to Its Preservation and Protection).

Bloor, Meriel

English for Specific Purposes, v17 n1 p47-66 1998

Argues that linguist John Swales has consistently worked to maintain English for Specific Purposes (ESP) as a distinct field of study in which practice is firmly founded in theory. Swales has developed the concept of "genre" in ESP into a fully articulated theory, allowing analysis of language that is contextually situated in terms of both field and discourse community. (Author/MSE)

Descriptors: Authors, Careers, Discourse Analysis, Educational Trends, English (Second Language), English for Special Purposes, Higher Education, Intellectual Disciplines, Language Research, Linguistic Theory, Scholarship, Second Language Instruction, Theory Practice Relationship, Trend Analysis

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers; Reports - Descriptive

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Language: English

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