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Publication details [#14334]
Scarpa, Federica. 2007. Using and Italian diachronic corpus for investigating the 'core' patterns of het language of science. In Ahmad, Khurshid and Margaret Rogers, eds. Evidence-based LSP: translation, text and terminology (Linguistic Insights: Studies in Language and Communication 47). Bern: Peter Lang. pp. 75–95.
Publication type
Article in jnl/bk
Publication language
English
Abstract
In order to investigate whether English has, as often claimed, influenced Italian scientific writing, the author undertakes a diachronic study of extracts from textbooks on dermatology over 60 years, focusing on one particular dermatological process. Within a Hallidayan framework, the author's analysis suggests a qualified 'y', but it is also argued that such developments should be seen as a 'positive step towards a true internationalization of the paradigms of science'.
Source : A. Matthyssen