A comparative study of book reviews in Thai and English

For this study, thirty book reviews in two fields, sixteen in history and sixteen in economics, written in Thai and English (eight in each discipline) were randomly collected from Thai and US academic journals in order to examine the moves in the overall structures of the reviews and reviewers'...

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Main Author: Aowsakorn, Prach
Format: Others
Published: CSUSB ScholarWorks 2006
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Online Access:https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/32
https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1032&context=etd-project
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Summary:For this study, thirty book reviews in two fields, sixteen in history and sixteen in economics, written in Thai and English (eight in each discipline) were randomly collected from Thai and US academic journals in order to examine the moves in the overall structures of the reviews and reviewers' politeness strategies, and to consider the extend to which the texts vary across the two languages and whether the variation is present in both disciplines.