English across genres: language variation in the discourse of economics

One of the most agreeable aspects of being reviews editor for English for Specific Purposes is that occasionally an extremely interesting book turns up unsolicited in the mail box: Marina Bondi’s volume on genre variation in Economics is a good example of this. Using insights from systemic linguistics and rhetorical analysis, English across Genres shows how small-scale corpora can contribute to our understanding of the ways writers vary their...