Overview
“John Swales’ textography might also be called ‘comparative rhetoric in a small building,’ offering proof, once again, that another culture may be only a trip up or down a flight of stairs. . . .such an appealing and original book.” ---BAAL News Originally published in 1998, Other Floors, Other Voices uses texts to capture the lives of three communities operating within a single building (the North University Building, or NUBS) on the University of Michigan campus. Swales' thoughtful exploration of the three units—the Computer Resource Site, the University Herbarium (botany), and the English Language Institute—centers around the individuals who work on each floor and the discourse-related activities they engage in. The Twentieth Anniversary Edition of Other Floors, Other Voices includes: a new preface, an introductory essay on the value of rereading this volume many years after publication, and an epilogue that reflects on and reveals what has happened to the three units in the past 20 years.
Full Product Details
Author: John M. Swales
Publisher: The University of Michigan Press
Imprint: The University of Michigan Press
Edition: Anniversary ed.
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.80cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.512kg
ISBN: 9780472037179
ISBN 10: 047203717
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 10 April 2018
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
John Swales' textography might also be called 'comparative rhetoric in a small building,' offering proof, once again, that another culture may be only a trip up or down a flight of stairs. . . .such an appealing and original book. - BAAL News
“John Swales’ textography might also be called ‘comparative rhetoric in a small building,’ offering proof, once again, that another culture may be only a trip up or down a flight of stairs. . . .such an appealing and original book.” — BAAL News
John Swales' textography might also be called `comparative rhetoric in a small building,' offering proof, once again, that another culture may be only a trip up or down a flight of stairs. . . .such an appealing and original book. - BAAL News
Author Information
I am John Swales, now officially retired as a Professor of Linguistics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where I was also Director of the English Language Institute for many years. I have written quite a lot of books, the first being Writing Scientific English in 1971 and the last Incidents in an Educational Life in 2009. Although retired, I keep professionally active and go to my office in the university several times a week. I am currently working on two new small advanced EAP textbooks with my regular co-author, Christine Feak. I still travel quite often to give talks and workshops about my main fields such as genre analysis and English academic discourse; for example, in 2009, I went to Brazil, China and Argentina on such ventures. My main hobbies are bird-watching and butterfly-watching; indeed, along with three others, I am currently working on a second edition of The Birds of Washtenaw County, Michigan. My main publishers are the University of Michigan Press and Cambridge University Press.
