The Handbook of English for Specific Purposes (Repost)
Brian Paltridge, "The Handbook of English for Specific Purposes"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 0470655321 | PDF | pages: 570 | 3.9 mb
English | 2012 | ISBN: 0470655321 | PDF | pages: 570 | 3.9 mb
Featuring a collection of newly commissioned essays, edited by two leading scholars, this Handbook surveys the key research findings in the field of English for Specific Purposes (ESP).
• Provides a state-of-the-art overview of the origins and evolution, current research, and future directions in ESP
• Features newly-commissioned contributions from a global team of leading scholars
• Explores the history of ESP and current areas of research, including speaking, reading, writing, technology, and business, legal, and medical English
• Considers perspectives on ESP research such as genre, intercultural rhetoric, multimodality, English as a lingua franca and ethnography