The phrase 'academic speech' is correct and is commonly used in formal, written English.
It typically refers to a formal speech such as those given at universities or other institutions of higher learning to mark an event or milestone. For example, "The chairperson gave an inspiring academic speech to mark the university's 125th anniversary."
Even forgetting this heritage for a moment, there's a freedom of academic speech aspect to all of this.
● Just last week, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg warned (in response to protests over a Brooklyn College forum critical of Israel) that people who wanted government to police academic speech should go to school in North Korea.
They expected some kind of 'Love Actually'* moment, a Hollywood ending, at the general assembly and instead we got rather an academic speech from someone who is an academic.
Results show that the way in which quantifiable data are handled in academic speech and writing is very different: numbers are less frequent in the talks, much less complex, and more often accompanied by approximators; quantification by determiners is preferred to lexical quantification.
Welcoming the pope at the mosque on Saturday, Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad bin Talal of Jordan, a cousin and the principal religious adviser of King Abdullah II, thanked Benedict for having expressed "regret" over the remarks and for clarifying that they had been a citation in an academic speech.
Watchdog groups monitoring academic speech have become more pernicious in the last two decades.
Academic speeches follow a simple script: A professor presents his research, and colleagues critique it.
I think a lot of people write about art in a specific way – particularly curators; they use quasi-academic speech in order to explain something which is actually simple, or is so difficult it defies being described so don't bother.
Nonetheless, "the Magna Carta" is frequently used in both academic and non-academic speech.
The former press secretary, who knew both Balls and Miliband for many years before they became frontline party figures, claims: "It's hard to listen to any of Ed Miliband's occasionally tortured, over-academic speeches without hearing his father's voice, especially when he talks about recasting the capitalist model and re-shaping society through the empowerment of ordinary people.
Principles of academic free speech should apply at all levels of the university.
