Bücher von Dwight Atkinson

The essays and research papers in this collection explore current issues in Language Education, English for Academic Purposes, Contrastive Discourse Analysis, and Language Policy and Planning, and outline promising directions for theory and practice in applied linguistics. The collection also honours the life-long contribution of Robert B. Kaplan to the field.

This work describes the changing language and rhetoric of English-speaking scientists across the 17th-20th centuries. It combines analytical methodologies in the description of scientific writing and offers a "wide angle" perspective that examines the evolution of writing from 1675 to 1975.