academic discourse

collocation in English

meaningsofacademicanddiscourse

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academic
adjective
uk
/ˌæk.əˈdem.ɪk/us
/ˌæk.əˈdem.ɪk/
relating to schools, colleges, and universities, or connected with studying and thinking, not with ...
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discourse
noun
uk
/ˈdɪs.kɔːs/us
/ˈdɪs.kɔːrs/
languagespecialized
the use of language to communicate in speech or writing, or an example ...
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(Definition ofacademicanddiscoursefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofacademic discourse

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It aims to find out where, when, and why (or why not) such linguistic forms emerge inacademicdiscourse.
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Clearly, this is not an arid,academicdiscourse.
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Thus does 'the disaster', like 'the accident', lead us into an interpretive grey zone with consequences not just for the participants, but foracademicdiscourse.
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This lucid and provocative work raises new issues aboutacademicdiscourse.
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Feminists of all educational backgrounds employacademicdiscourse, ideas and theories, not least because many activists are academics.
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They remained largely on the margins, not only of the country's politics, but also ofacademicdiscourse.
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As an indicator of serious engagement in anacademicdiscourse, thesis writing enjoys universal recognition.
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The former is typical ofacademicdiscourse, oriented mostly to communicative action and overwhelmingly offering truth validity claims.
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It is surprising that, in nursing, a skill-based profession, the professional andacademicdiscourse reveals a lack of clarity in the use of the term.
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Academicdiscourseis the product academics sell to the world and to each other.
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This article has attempted to find where, when, and why (or why not) linguistic styles emerge that can index gender inacademicdiscourse.
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The results of the analysis suggest that the discursive practice of the oral narrative and that ofacademicdiscourseshare certain rhetorical features.
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It contributes little to theory or a rigorous understanding of how language policy can be handled in political andacademicdiscourse.
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The communicative restrictions for structural markers, questions, and question tags inacademicdiscourseare discussed in a brief overview below.
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The data analysis is preceded by a brief discussion of gender andacademicdiscourse.
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Research on the development of language proficiency associated withacademicdiscourseand literacy learning is reviewed.
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In order to become successful members of anacademicdiscoursecommunity, students needed to be aware of its sociocultural and literacy norms and conventions.
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Thus, he became an authoritative voice in the making ofacademicdiscourse, providing us with angles from which to see a cer tain culture.
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It has more or less remained outside the generalacademicdiscoursein the humanities.
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This downgrades the real world and inflates the value ofacademicdiscourseand its structural features.
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These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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