In recent years linguistic research has turned increasing attention to covert/overt strategies to modulate authorial stance and positioning in scientific texts, and to the recipients' response. This study discussed some theoretical implications of the use of rhetoric in scientific communication and analysed qualitative data from the authoritative The Cognitive Neurosciences III (2004) volume. I...

Science can uncover neural mechanisms by looking at the work of artists. The ingenuity of a titan of classical music, the Russian composer Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915), in combining all the sensory modalities into a polyphony of aesthetical experience, and his creation of a chord based on fourths rather than the conventional thirds are proposed as putative points of departure for insight, in ...

This study evaluated the relationship between primitive and scheme-driven grouping (A. S. Bregman, 1990) by comparing the ability of different listeners to detect single note changes in 3-voice musical compositions. Primitive grouping was manipulated by the use of 2 distinctly different compositional styles (homophony and polyphony). The effects of scheme-driven processes were tested by compari...

This research investigates how professional authors construct their authorial identities in English articles (RAs). Sixty were selected from three disciplines, biology, linguistics, and medicine, published by native non-native reputable international journals. First-person references the analyzed qualitatively quantitatively with help of corpus linguistic methods to examine they used express, d...

neonatal unit; 18 of these infants had been born outside the hospital. While the overall survival rate was 47%, out of 17 normally formed infants born at 23-25 weeks' gestation only 2 (12%) survived. Both are so far neurodevelopmentally normal but one has severe bronchopulmonary dysplasia necessitating frequent admissions to hospital. The survival rate of 12% is in keeping with that of Professo...