Researching Specialized Languages
Edited by Vijay Bhatia, Purificación Sánchez and Pascual Pérez-Paredes
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 47] 2011. viii, 238 pp.
Purificación Sánchez
List of John Benjamins publications for which Purificación Sánchez plays a role.
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Subjects Corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | Lexicography | Pragmatics | Terminology
2019 Chapter 3. Featuring immigrants and citizens: A comparison between Spanish and English primary legislation and administration information texts (2007–2011) Migration and Media: Discourses about identities in crisis, Viola, Lorella and Andreas Musolff (eds.), pp. 63–90 | Chapter
This study highlights the different approaches to the construction of immigrants and citizens that United Kingdom and Spain seem to have favoured in the period 2007–2011. A corpus of legislation (EN-1, SP-1) and another of information texts (EN-3, SP-3) produced by the administrations of both… read more
2014 Lexical bundles in Biology: Differences between textbooks and research articles Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 27:2, pp. 492–513 | Article
On the basis of previous lexical bundle studies, this paper examines the forms, structures and functions of 4-word bundles in a corpus of textbooks and a corpus of research articles in Biology. The study includes the main biological disciplines and focuses on three major features: the overall… read more
2011 Specialized languages: Corpora, meta-analyses and applications Researching Specialized Languages, Bhatia, Vijay, Purificación Sánchez and Pascual Pérez-Paredes (eds.), pp. 1–8 | Article
2011 The use of adverbial hedges in EAP students’ oral performance: A cross-language analysis Researching Specialized Languages, Bhatia, Vijay, Purificación Sánchez and Pascual Pérez-Paredes (eds.), pp. 95–114 | Article
This paper addresses the natural, non-elicited occurrence of adverbial hedges in the production of Spanish learners of EAP and British students of Modern Languages. The two sets of corpus data we discuss in this research are made up of interviews which were conducted following the same methodology… read more
2008 The use of literature as a means of dealing with different language levels within the same classroom English Text Construction 1:2, pp. 226–238 | Article
Literature has a long history in the teaching of language: it was essential in the classical paradigm and still plays a fundamental role in the language classroom in many countries. The advantages of using literary texts for teaching language have been widely discussed (Maley and Duff 1989; Carter… read more