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Giannoni, Davide Simone. 2002. Worlds of gratitude: A contrastive study of acknowledgement texts in English and Italian research articles. Applied Linguistics 23 (1) : 1–31.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN
0142-6001

Annotation

This paper investigates the socio-pragmatic norms that govern scholarly acknowledgments in English and Italian research articles, drawing on corpus data indicative of personal involvement and peer-reference, authorial responsibility, generic complexity and staging, and pragmatic appropriacy.