目录
Preface
List of acronyms and abbreviations
List of tables and figures
CHAPTER 1 Introduction
1.1 Rationale for the study
1.2 The university lecture: pros and cons
1.3 Aims of the study
1.4 Target readership
1.5 Overview of the book
CHAPTER 2 Background to the study: The merger of discourses
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Spoken discourse
2.2.1 The linguistic/discursive approach
2.2.2 The interactional approach
2.3 Academic discourse
2.4 Disciplinary discourse: the field of economics
2.5 Professional discourse: the world of business
2.6 A conceptual framework for analyzing business studies lectures
CHAPTER 3 The business studies lecture corpus: Design, collection and analysis
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Corpus design
3.3 Collecting the data
3.4 Transcribing the data
3.5 Methodology: an integrated approach
3.5.1 Quantitative and qualitative analysis
3.5.2 Comparative analysis
3.5.3 Behavioural observation
3.5.4 Participant feedback
CHAPTER 4 Speaking to the audience
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Speech rate
4.3 Lecture style
4.3.1 Discourse dysfluencies
4.3.2 Reduced forms
4.4 Lexical informality
4.4.1 Vagueness
4.4.2 Idioms
4.5 Syntactic informality
4.5.1 Ellipsis
4.5.2 Non-restrictive which-clauses
4.6 Lexical density
4.7 Summary of findings
CHAPTER 5 Interacting with the learners
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Discourse structuring
5.2.1 Lecture macrostructure
5.2.2 Macromarkers
5.2.3 Micromarkers
5.3 Evaluation
5.2.1 Relevance markers
5.3.2 Affect markers
5.4 Lecturer-audience interaction
5.4.1 Questions
5.4.2 Comprehension checks
5.4.3 Dialogic episodes
5.5 Audience responsiveness and feedback
5.6 Summary of findings
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CHAPTER 6 Teaching the discipline and the profession
CHAPTER 7 Beyond speaking: Multimodal aspects
CHAPTER 8 Final remarks
References
Appendix A - Transcript samples from the twelve lectures of the BSLC
Appendix B - Specialized lexis in the BSLC ranked according to
frequency
Name index
Subject index