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Genre analysis: English in academic and research settings / John M. Swales

John M. Swales
- Vol. 1991, Iss: 1991, pp 1-99
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Humour in Business: a double-edged sword. A study of humour and style shifting in intercultural business meetings

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the use of humour in a series of intercultural business meetings and find that humour is present in all meetings but the frequency and tone of the humour varies with the style of the meetings.
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Culturally Patterned Speaking Practices - The Analysis of Communicative Genres

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- 01 Jan 1995 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the sociological approach to genre analysis, pointing out some relevant analytical categories which allow for a structural description of genres and thereby demonstrate the significance of this research for the analysis of communicative contexts and cultural speaking practices.
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An annotation scheme for citation function

TL;DR: An annotation scheme with 12 categories is introduced, an agreement study is presented, and the interplay of the discourse structure of a scientific argument with formal citations is studied.
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Genre Constraints Across Languages: Causal Metatext in Spanish and English RAs.

TL;DR: In this article, an empirical contrastive analysis of 36 research articles in English and 36 RAs in Spanish on business and economics written by native speakers of each language is carried out.
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Sex business in the toy store: A narrative analysis of a teaching case

TL;DR: This article performed a narrative analysis of an entrepreneurship case performed from a post-structuralist feminist perspective and found that the case reproduces discriminatory gender relations, and suggested that women should be excluded from entrepreneurship training.