Academic Writing and Reader Engagement offers a concise linguistic description of the use and functions of questions in English, French and Spanish and discusses their value to the teaching of academic writing.
This book:
- Enables a better understanding of how writers engage readers in academic writing in English, French, and Spanish and where each language behaves similarly or differently;
- Explains how authors express opinions, organise discourse and create relationships with readers via questions in their academic writing and the various functions questions perform;
- Brings together research on corpus and contrastive linguistics, highlighting how these two fields can support one another;
- Offers a thorough investigation of reader engagement markers from a range of linguistic perspectives and considers how knowledge of these markers could be applied to the teaching and learning of academ
