In this article, Elizabeth Birr Moje, Melanie Overby, Nicole Tysvaer, and Karen Morris challenge some of the prevailing myths about adolescents and their choices related to reading. The reading practices of youth from one urban community are examined using mixed methods in an effort to define what, how often, and why adolescents choose to read. By focusing on what features of texts youth find m...

Compilation of Languages for Specific Purposes (LSP) corpora is a task which is fraught with several difficulties (mainly time and human effort), because it is not easy to discern between specialized and non-specialized text. The aim of this work is to study automatic specialized vs. non-specialized sentence differentiation. The experiments are carried out on two corpora of sentences extracted ...

Genres of spoken and written texts are being intensively studied from various angles, e.g., communication studies, discourse analysis, computational linguistics, without arriving at a generally accepted definition. Many corpora have been built to represent the language, but very few large corpora indicate genres, and when they do the typology of genres varies widely. For instance, the Brown cor...

language; this is followed by a little on texts available, followed in turn by a long discussion of the taxonomy of such texts and a defence of the study of "academic" or "learned" vernacular texts. There is much to be learned here, although the author has not attempted a coherent study. Bert S. Hall devotes himself to considering problems of understanding and interpreting mostly published text...

This paper poses the question of how academic writers present themselves to the audience and focuses on the functions of forms of self-reference in Czech and Slovak scientific discourse. For scientific texts, the Latin rhetoric tradition recommended the so called pluralis modestiae or pluralis auctoris as an appropriate linguistic means of self-presentation of the writer, conveying his modest a...

US youths’ lives are increasingly divided between the academic requirements of school and immersion in new media and culture outside school. Educators can help bridge in-school and out-ofschool literacy practices by encouraging students to engage with hybrid texts that draw on multiple modes of representation. In this paper, we analyze the ‘disconnect’ between academic literacy and new media, d...