The Pragmatics of Academic Writing

"The Pragmatics of Academic Writing" is a scholarly book that explores the role of pragmatics and discourse in academic writing. It examines how the form of a text creates stylistic effects and offers a comprehensive analysis from an intercultural perspective. The author, Nicola Owtram, highlights five key stylistic features of writing, including the structure of paragraphs, the length and construction of sentences, the organization of information, the relative formality of vocabulary, and the degree of nominalization. These features are considered crucial for the different impressions that academic writing leaves in English and Italian. The book develops a theoretical framework for examining stylistic differences and provides an overview of current scholarly approaches to writing and reading, genre studies, and contrastive rhetoric.