Narratives in Academic and Professional Genres

Abstract

which professionals have for long coveted. The area of academic genres has been dealt with extensively; however, the professional area, whether communication in the workplace or the study of minor genres in the professions, such as photographic narrative in annual reports, the narrative of patents, aviation catastrophes or the journalistic obituary, have been practically ignored. recently, however, scholars have recognized the need to further investigate this area of scholarship. This dense volume contributes to show the possible interactivity that may exist between academic and professional genres. The volume Narratives in Academic and Professional Genres offers an ample space for discussion addressed to narratology in two main areas of academic and professional communication. In the first part, entitled “narratives in Academic genres”, AnnA MAurAnEn’s study investigates how research findings are reported in conference presentations through narrative elements. In her discussion, she analyzes the different narratives of “me”, “us ” and “them”; through the first pronoun, the listener is invited to identify “with the speaker’s perspective ” (page 62), while “us ” and “we ” draw “the hearers into the research group’s perspective ” (page 57). The position of authors in the narrative with regard to audiences is also approached by CArMEn dAnIELA MAIEr and JAn EngBErg in their paper on “narrator’s types and roles ” in several academic generic forms in the field of visual communication; in their analysis they recognize the difficulty of approaching such a genre. Linguistic features in historical narratives are described by MArInA BOndI in her corpus of 425 academic and popular papers in which specific meanings are drawn from “prototypical place deictics here/there ” (page 139). In turn, rOSA LOréS-SAnz approaches history book reviews written in English and Spanish as “the most prominent evaluative genre ” (p. 195) by discussing their rESEñAS / BOOK rEVIEWS

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