Irena Vassileva Livres

Focusing on argumentation strategies in academic criticism, this book explores the dynamics of confrontation in scholarly discourse, particularly between English and German contexts. It examines intertextuality, cultural variations, and the concept of the "academic discourse community." The analysis includes a corpus of negative academic book reviews and discusses the implications of context-based versus corpus-based methods. The work highlights the influence of discipline culture and communities of practice, making it valuable for researchers and educators in academic communication and rhetoric.

The forms and genres of academic communication have changed considerably over the past decades – from standardised ways of producing texts on/for paper to a (less?) standardised way of communication in Web 2.0. Published papers are now available to a greater number of readers, interaction among colleagues can take place in real time via written, audio or visual formats, and it has become much more comfortable for students as well as for those outside the scientific community to access academic information and to contact its authors. It seems, however, that many aspects of academic communication have not yet changed, and its participants – either in the „old“ or in the „new“ generation – are ill-equipped to work within the multimedia context. This volume, therefore, takes a look at academic communication in the multimedia environment, in order to throw light on how these processes are linked to new multimedia affordances, while at the same time encapsulating old genre conventions and participant interaction with the medium.