Affixes and Derivatives across the Humanities and Social Sciences
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 16 April 2026
- ISBN 9781350569003
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages312 pages
- Size 236x158x22 mm
- Weight 620 g
- Language
- Illustrations 10 bw illus 696
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Short description:
Examines word-formation patterns in academic writing in the Humanities and Social Sciences offering rich insights into English derivation.
MoreLong description:
Providing a systematic approach to English academic writing for the Humanities and Social Sciences, this book examines the word-formation patterns typical of discourse across distinct academic disciplines.
Academic writing for research requires lexical sophistication, as it often addresses abstract concepts needing unique names, and a skilful use of complex derived/affixed words. The author provides data that allows for addressing the issues of expanding the learners' vocabulary, the development of vocabulary skills and the cultivation of derivational awareness in a targeted manner.
The book consists of eight chapters. The first two provide a general overview of written academic English for research and publication purposes across the Humanities and Social Sciences and present the whole derivational system of contemporary English. English affixes are introduced through syntactic categories, such as derived nouns, derived verbs and derived adjectives. Chapters 3 to 5 contain the results of analyses conducted with the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA). In chapters 6 and 7, the methodology adopted shifts from automatic corpus search to manual data collection resulting from the close reading of specialist texts. Finally, chapter 8 shows how the analyses can be transferred to areas such as academic writing for research, writing for specific/professional purposes, creative writing, and translation.
Offering rich insights into English derivation, this book will benefit researchers engaged in the Humanities and Social Sciences and appeal to linguists specializing in morphological theory, as well as language teaching professionals and EAP curriculum designers.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Written Academic English
2. Derivational Morphology
3. COCA-based Affixal Statistics
4. COCA-based Lists of Derivatives
5. Discussion of the Results of COCA-based Research
6. Results of Close Reading
7. Discussion of the Results of Close Reading
8. Both Analyses Revisited
References
Index of Affixes
