@article {1735, title = {The Article of the future: Strategies for genre stability and change}, journal = {English for Specific Purposes}, volume = {32}, year = {2013}, pages = { 221-235}, publisher = {Elsevier}, address = {The Netherlands}, abstract = {

This article compares the Article of the Future (AofF) prototypes (\<http://www.articleofthefuture.com/\>) with a corpus of journal articles (Journal Article Corpus {\textendash} JAC) to demonstrate that the article genre in an online environment is a {\textquotedblleft}stabilised-for-now or stabilised-enough{\textquotedblright} site for social interaction (Schryer, 1994, p. 108). Results show that the prototypes adhere to the typical structural patterns of the JAC texts, while also embedding discernible structural variations across the disciplinary spectrum. They display generic stability concerning authors{\textquoteright} use of intertextuality for framing their texts in a social/institutional context. Comparison of the AofF with the JAC texts also illustrates a similar lexicogrammatical profile. Consistent with previous literature, recurring bundles in the AofF prototypes are associated with structural elaboration, complexity and a compressed style, and perform referential, text-organising and stance functions in the discourse. Complementing corpus findings, an exploratory survey of authors suggests that their actual text-composing/reading practices of online articles are governed by the long-established communicative purposes of the genre. Findings suggest, though, that the new online part-genres (research highlights, graphical abstracts, interactive graphs, embedded videos, hyperlinks), potential strategies for generic change, might be changing the writers{\textquoteright} perceptions towards online articles. The article concludes with some practical implications for ESP practitioners.

}, keywords = {ESP pedagogy, genre analysis, genre and media, research articles, rhetoric and composition}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esp.2013.06.004}, url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0889490613000422}, author = {Carmen P{\'e}rez-Llantada} } @article {1737, title = {HOW IS THE DIGITAL MEDIUM SHAPING RESEARCH GENRES? SOME CROSS-DISCIPLINARY TRENDS }, journal = {ESP Today, Journal of English for Specific Purposes at Tertiary Level}, volume = {4}, year = {2016}, pages = {22-42}, publisher = { University of Belgrade and the Serbian Association for the Study of English (SASE)}, address = {Serbia}, abstract = {

There is little dispute that technologies are impacting academic communication today, rendering new forms of accessing information and disseminating knowledge. To explore this impact, in the first part of the paper I review a selection of scholarly literature that addresses ways in which digital technologies are shifting the scholars{\textquoteright} information access behavior and introducing new forms of research dissemination. I also discuss how these new forms of communication are modeling new ecologies of genre systems and genre sets. In the second part of the paper I conduct genre analysis with a sample corpus of texts from different disciplines to illustrate how the emergence of new multimedia genres and the use of multimodality, hypertextuality and interdiscursivity features in genres within electronic environments appear to be pointing at generic evolution and innovation. In light of the findings, I propose some areas in which genre research can engage in interdisciplinary conversation (with ethnography, academic/digital literacies studies, situated genre analysis and reception studies). Regarding EAP instruction, I suggest a pedagogy that provides corpus-based linguistic and rhetorical input on the new genre formats, opportunities for noticing, hands-on practice and critical awareness of aspects of genre innovation and change.

}, keywords = {digital technologies, EAP tasks-based learning, genre innovation, genre systems, multimodality, research genres}, isbn = {e-ISSN:2334-9050}, issn = {e-ISSN:2334-9050}, author = {Carmen P{\'e}rez-Llantada} } @inbook {1738, title = {Researching genres with multilingual corpora: A conceptual enquiry}, booktitle = {Corpus Analysis for Descriptive and Pedagogical Purposes: ESP Perspectives M. Gotti and D. Giannoni eds}, year = {2014}, pages = {107-122}, publisher = {Peter Lang}, organization = {Peter Lang}, address = {Bern}, abstract = {

In the past decades, the EAP field has witnessed a growing interest in compiling multilingual corpora of various sizes. The aim has been to investigate how scholars whose first language is not English use English for academic and research communication. This flourishing field of investigation, cutting across a broad repertoire of genres, has been fuelled by the fact that the international academic and research arena has strongly favoured the role of English as the medium for communication (Lillis/Curry 2010; Mauranen 2012). However, this field of investigation has not yet become a matter of conceptual enquiry. To fill this gap, the aim of this chapter is (i) to critically review the main research trends used to analyse genres by means of multilingual corpora, (ii) to examine the reasons for the paucity of systematic contrastive analyses at the phraseological level for profiling L2 English academic texts and defining what an {\textquoteleft}expert{\textquoteright} academic L2 English user is, and (iii) to discuss the challenges that conducting large-scale empirical studies of academic English variants in the written domain would pose if codification of those variants were undertaken. Essentially, in what follows I critically assess relevant concepts in contrastive studies of EAP, address emerging methodological trends and reflect on a number of topics of current interest in relation to multilingual corpora. To do so I will draw on a combination of literature survey, bibliometric data and conceptual analysis, the purpose being two-fold. Firstly, it is of interest to the EAP scholarly community to determine how multilingual corpora can best help EAP researchers identify genre features across cultures and languages. Secondly, given its obvious practical implications, it is also of interest to show how EAP teachers can make research-informed decisions based on multilingual corpora with a view to catering to their students{\textquoteright} learning needs in the best possible way.

}, keywords = {academic writing, English for academic purposes, genre analysis, research genres}, author = {Carmen P{\'e}rez-Llantada} } @article {1739, title = {Textual, genre and social features of spoken grammar: A corpus-based approach}, journal = {Language learning and technology}, volume = {13}, year = {2009}, pages = {40-58}, publisher = {University of Hawaii National Foreign Language Resource Center}, address = {Hawaii }, abstract = {

This paper describes a corpus-based approach to teaching and learning spoken grammar for English for Academic Purposes with reference to Bhatia{\textquoteright}s (2002) multi-perspective model for discourse analysis: a textual perspective, a genre perspective and a social perspective. From a textual perspective, corpus-informed instruction helps students identify grammar items through statistical frequencies, collocational patterns, context-sensitive meanings and discoursal uses of words. From a genre perspective, corpus observation provides students with exposure to recurrent lexico-grammatical patterns across different academic text types (genres). From a social perspective, corpus models can be used to raise learners{\textquoteright} awareness of how speakers{\textquoteright} different discourse roles, discourse privileges and power statuses are enacted in their grammar choices. The paper describes corpus-based instructional procedures, gives samples of learners{\textquoteright} linguistic output, and provides comments on the students{\textquoteright} response to this method of instruction. Data resulting from the assessment process and student production suggest that corpus-informed instruction grounded in Bhatia{\textquoteright}s multi-perspective model can constitute a pedagogical approach in order to i) obtain positive student responses from input and authentic samples of grammar use, ii) help students identify and understand the textual, genre and social aspects of grammar in real contexts of use, and therefore iii) help develop students{\textquoteright} ability to use grammar accurately and appropriately.\ 

}, keywords = {discourse analysis, English (Second Language), English for academic purposes, Grammar, Language Styles, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods}, isbn = {ISSN-1094-3501}, url = {http://www.lltjournal.org/item/2653}, author = {Carmen P{\'e}rez-Llantada} }