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The Author: Davide Simone Giannoni is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Bergamo (Italy). He holds a doctorate in Applied Linguistics from the University of Reading (UK) and an M.A. in Linguistics-tesol from the University of Surrey (UK). His research on academic-professional genres has appeared in several international journals and volumes. He has co-edited (2006), (2008) and (2010).

«(...) la obra de Giannoni tiene un gran potencial como obra de referencia, especialmente para los profesores de inglés para fines específicos, de inglés académico, y de inglés científico que trabajan en el ámbito de alguna de las disciplinas tratadas.» (Izaskun Elorza, Aula 18, 2012)

Contents: Academia and the disciplines – Discourse communities – Academic English and ELF – The values of academia – Goodness markers – Size markers – Novelty markers – Relevance markers – Evaluative lexis and value markers – Academic values signalled in the corpus – Lexical resources encoding value – Variation among qualified entities – The role of academic values. Inhaltsverzeichnis