Researching Specialized Languages (Studies in Corpus Linguistics)

Table of contents......Page 6
List of contributors......Page 8
Specialized languages......Page 10
References......Page 17
Section one. Research based on corpora......Page 18
The historical shift of scientific academic prose in English towards less explicit styles of expression......Page 20
1. Introduction......Page 21
2. Corpus and grammatical features used for the analysis......Page 22
3. Structural elaboration and compression in academic writing......Page 24
4. Explicit and implicit meaning in academic writing......Page 29
5. Summary and pedagogical implications......Page 31
References......Page 32
1. Introduction......Page 34
2. Corpus and methodology......Page 36
3. Results......Page 38
4. Discussion and implications......Page 48
References......Page 52
1. Introduction......Page 56
2. Data......Page 57
3. Approach: Identification of moves......Page 59
3.2 Informative moves......Page 60
3.3 Regulatory moves......Page 64
3.4 Double moves......Page 67
4. Findings......Page 68
5. Discussion......Page 74
6. Conclusion......Page 76
References......Page 78
1. Introduction......Page 80
2. The need for genre flexibility: The case of biology and related life and health sciences......Page 82
3. How do scientists select, read and write articles today?......Page 83
4. Methods......Page 84
4.2 Results of the interviews......Page 85
4.3 Corpus selection and approach to the analysis......Page 86
5.1 Plos biology......Page 88
5.2 Biology of reproduction......Page 93
6. Conclusion......Page 96
References......Page 97
Biology of Reproduction......Page 101
1. Introduction......Page 104
2. The scope of hedging in corpus-based research......Page 105
3. Hedging, the LGSWE and the Multidimensional Analysis-related research tradition......Page 107
4. Methodology......Page 110
5. Results......Page 111
6. Discussion and conclusion......Page 118
References......Page 121
1. Perspectives, research aims and antecedents in the study of graphic literacy......Page 124
2. The study: Context and methodology......Page 128
3. Findings......Page 130
4. Final remarks: A critical systemic teaching of graph commentary in ESP contexts......Page 137
Continuum of data commentary choices......Page 138
References......Page 140
Appendix......Page 143
Section two. Research based on meta-analysis and applications in LSP......Page 146
1. Introduction......Page 148
2. Dichotomy 1: Individual genres vs. genre networks......Page 152
3. Dichotomy 2: Written vs. spoken genres......Page 153
4. Dichotomy 3: Macro vs. micro levels of analysis......Page 155
5. Dichotomy 4: Move structure vs. lexico-grammar......Page 157
References......Page 160
English for legal purposes and domain-specific cultural awareness......Page 164
1. Legal culture......Page 165
2. Identifying the Continental paradox......Page 166
3. Some ELP didactic considerations......Page 167
4. Creation of an ersatz legal culture: Cognitive processes......Page 169
5.1 Continental cinematic legal thrillers......Page 175
5.3 Law school academic culture......Page 177
5.4 ELP didactics......Page 178
6. Conclusion: Winds of change?......Page 179
References......Page 181
Webliography......Page 182
1. Introduction......Page 184
2.1 Orientation......Page 185
2.3 Evaluation......Page 186
2.4 Towards a resolution......Page 188
3.1 Telling the story to the academic writing tutor......Page 190
3.2 Triangulation......Page 191
3.3 Writing a draft of the narrative and annotating it......Page 192
3.4 Providing models for analysis and discussion......Page 193
4. Further complications......Page 195
References......Page 197
1. Introduction......Page 200
2. Learners......Page 201
3. Linguistic and educational context......Page 202
4. Lexicographic data, linguistic structures and their didactic function......Page 204
5. Corpus......Page 207
6. Corpus analysis......Page 210
7. Evaluation......Page 212
References......Page 214
Appendixes......Page 216
1. Introduction......Page 220
2. Identifying conceptual relations by means of linguistic patterns......Page 221
3. Lexico-syntactic patterns in Knowledge Engineering......Page 223
3.1 Difficulties of a natural language approach......Page 227
4. Strategies in the discovery of LSPs......Page 228
5.1 The challenge of matching LSPs and ODPs......Page 229
6. Lexico-syntactic patterns for the subclass of and the part-whole relations......Page 230
7. Potential applications of the LSPs repository to ESP/EAP......Page 234
8. Conclusions......Page 235
References......Page 236
Appendix......Page 238
Notes on contributors......Page 240
Index......Page 246