Researching Specialized Languages

Editors

Vijay Bhatia | City University of Hong Kong

Purificación Sánchez | University of Murcia

Pascual Pérez-Paredes | University of Murcia

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The present collection of articles represents research efforts in the field of specialised languages, including the analysis of research articles in disciplines as diverse as Biomedicine and Computing, on the one hand, and overlapping disciplines such as in Social Sciences, on the other, all with high relevance to English for Academic Purposes, and English for specific Purposes. The volume offers empirical evidence obtained from corpus-based analyses of language, both from diachronic as well as synchronic perspectives, on topics such as the role of mother tongue in professional writing, the analysis of conference abstracts as a genre, or the analysis of visual data transfer. This collection addresses issues such as the implementation of lexicons for specialised language learning, and the development of ontologies to research language patterns. The volume thus provides a rich repertoire of research methodologies, in-depth analyses of specialised discourses, and the identification and discussion of relevant pedagogic issues.

Winner of the 4th Edition of the 'Enrique Alcaraz Research Award'

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 47] 2011. viii, 238 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.47

Table of Contents

List of contributors | pp. vii–viii

Specialized languages: Corpora, meta-analyses and applications

Vijay Bhatia, Purificación Sánchez and Pascual Pérez-Paredes | pp. 1–8

Section one. Research based on corpora

The historical shift of scientific academic prose in English towards less explicit styles of expression: Writing without Verbs

Douglas Biber and Bethany Gray | pp. 11–24

Heteroglossic (dis)engagement and the construal of the ideal readership: Dialogic spaces in academic texts

Carmen Pérez-Llantada | pp. 25–46

Structure, content and functions of calls for conference abstracts

Sara Gesuato | pp. 47–70

Summarizing findings: An all-pervasive move in open access biomedical research articles involves rephrasing strategies

Mercedes Jaime-Sisó | pp. 71–94

The use of adverbial hedges in EAP students’ oral performance: A cross-language analysis

Pascual Pérez-Paredes, Purificación Sánchez and Pilar Aguado-Jimenez | pp. 95–114

Integrating approaches to visual data commentary: An exploratory case study

Carmen Sancho Guinda | pp. 115–136

Section two. Research based on meta-analysis and applications in LSP

Some dichotomies in genre analysis for Languages for Specific Purposes

John Flowerdew | pp. 139–154

English for legal purposes and domain-specific cultural awareness: The ‘continental paradox’, definition, causes and evolution

Shaeda Isani | pp. 155–174

The Talking Cure: From Narrative to Academic Argument

Gillian Diane Lazar | pp. 175–190

UrgentiAS, a lexical database for medical students in clinical placements: Architecture, use and evaluation

Kris Buyse, Eva Saver, An Laffut and Herlinda Vekemans | pp. 191–210

Using natural language patterns for the development of ontologies

Elena Montiel-Ponsoda and Guadalupe Aguado-de-Cea | pp. 211–230

Notes on contributors | pp. 231–236

Index | pp. 237–238

“The volume represents a most valuable contribution to the field of LSP and is highly recommendable to teachers and researchers whose interests lie in specialised languages, academic and professional writing, terminology and lexicography.”

Maria-Lluïsa Gea-Valor, Universitat Jaume I, Ibérica 27: 211-214, 2014

“This volume contains papers contributed by scholars from various countries and, consequently, with different sociocultural and sociolinguistic backgrounds, representing various academic schools and working within different spheres of LSP. This variety of approaches, aspects and ideas discussed by the researchers, alongside exhaustive theoretical considerations and practically valuable materials introduced in the publications cited in the volume, make this book ‘nutritious’ food for thought and give readers a powerful stimulus for further investigation into professional communication and specialized languages.”

Oksana Ksenzenko, Moscow State University, in World Englishes 33(2): 303-305, 2014

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2020. Persuasion and Specialised Discourse in a Changing World. In Persuasion in Specialised Discourses, ► pp. 339 ff.

Herrmann, J. Berenike & Tony Berber Sardinha

2015. Metaphor in specialist discourse. In Metaphor in Specialist Discourse [Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication, 4], ► pp. 3 ff.

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2020. Engagement under revision: How Iranian scholars negotiate the arguability of their texts. Complutense Journal of English Studies 28 ► pp. 147 ff.

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2017. RIDGES Herbology: designing a diachronic multi-layer corpus. Language Resources and Evaluation 51:3 ► pp. 695 ff.

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2014. Adverb use and language proficiency in young learners’ writing. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 19:2 ► pp. 178 ff.

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2011. Lsp Research Today. ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 162 ► pp. 1 ff.

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