Investigating Specialized Discourse

Investigating Specialized Discourse
Author: Maurizio Gotti
Publisher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2008
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9783039117321

Maurizio Gotti analyses the various features of specialized discourse in order to assess its degree of specificity and diversification, as compared to general language. Prior to any analysis of such traits, the notion of specialized discourse and its distinctive properties are clarified.

Specialized Discourse

Specialized Discourse
Author: Maurizio Gotti
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2003
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

This book analyses the various features of specialized discourse in order to assess its degree of specificity and diversification, as compared to general language. Prior to any analysis of such traits, the notion of specialized discourse and its distinctive properties are clarified, also as compared to other features frequently occurring in specialized texts which cannot be considered distinctive. The presence of such properties are accounted for not only in linguistic but also in pragmatic terms since the approach is interpretative rather tan merely descriptive. The complexity of this discourse calls for a multidimensional analysis, covering both lexis and morpho-syntax as well as textual patterning. Some lexical aspects, morphosyntactic features and textual genres are also examined from a diachronic perspective, thus showing how various conventions concerning specialized discourse have developed over the last few centuries.

Developing Courses in English for Specific Purposes

Developing Courses in English for Specific Purposes
Author: H. Basturkmen
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2015-12-11
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0230290515

Presented in two parts, this book firstly introduces core considerations in ESP course development drawing on examples from a wide range of ESP and EAP courses. Secondly four case studies show how experienced ESP teachers and course developers went about developing courses to meet the needs of their particular learners.

Persuasion in Specialised Discourses

Persuasion in Specialised Discourses
Author: Olga Dontcheva-Navratilova
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2020-12-10
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3030581632

This book examines the concept of persuasion in written texts for specialist audiences in the English and Czech languages. By exploring a corpus of academic research articles, corporate reports, religious sermons and user manuals the authors aim to reveal similarities and differences in rhetorical strategies across cultures and genres. They draw on Biber and Conrad’s (2009) model for contextualising interaction in specialised discourses, Bell’s (1997) framework for the analysis of participants roles, Swales’ (1990) genre analysis approach for considering genre constraints and Hyland’s (2005) metadiscourse model for investigating writer-reader interaction. The result is a book which will appeal to researchers and students in Discourse Studies, especially those with an interest in genre and rhetorical strategies.

Insights Into Specialized Translation

Insights Into Specialized Translation
Author: Maurizio Gotti
Publisher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2006
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9783039111862

This volume focuses on specialist translation - one of the areas of translation in greatest demand in our age of globalization. The 16 chapters deal not only with the classical domains of science and technology, law, socio-politics and medicine but also with lesser researched areas such as archeology, geography, nutrigenomics and others. As a whole, the book achieves a blend of theory and practice. It addresses a variety of issues such as translation strategy based on text type and purpose, intercultural transfer and quality assessment, as well as textual and terminological issues in bilingual and multilingual settings, including international organizations and the European Union. Today translation competence presupposes multidisciplinary skills. Whereas some chapters analyze the linguistic features of special-purpose texts and their function in specialized communication, others show how specialized translation has changed as a result of globalization and how advances in technology have altered terminology research and translation processing.

Languages for Special Purposes

Languages for Special Purposes
Author: John Humbley
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 623
Release: 2018-10-22
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110394650

This handbook gives an overview of language for special purposes (LSP) in scientific, professional and other contexts, with particular focus on teaching and training. It provides insights into research paradigms, theories and methods while also highlighting the practical use of LSPs in concrete discourse situations. The volume is transdisciplinary oriented with a firm basis in the language sciences, including terminology, knowledge transfer, multilingual and cross-cultural exchange.

Conceptual Metaphors as an Organisational Framework of the Specialist Language of IT

Conceptual Metaphors as an Organisational Framework of the Specialist Language of IT
Author: Magdalena Krawiec
Publisher: V&R Unipress
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2022-06-13
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3847014528

Magdalena Krawiec provides insight into the underlying conceptual structure of information technology and gives a plausible account of the patterns of metaphorical conceptualisation manifested in the specialist language of IT. Conceptual metaphors map our concrete experience onto abstract experiences, so as to effortlessly get hold of new emergent concepts. On the one hand, our ability to make our world thinkable rests on the use of our past experiences, whereas on the other hand, IT specialists familiarise themselves with yet unknown conceptual structures through the interaction with the specialist scenery. Specialists' thinkability of the specialist surroundings is grounded in their perception of similarity which enables them to adapt both conceptually and linguistically to their specialist practice.

Explorations in Specialized Genres

Explorations in Specialized Genres
Author: Vijay Kumar Bhatia
Publisher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2006
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9783039109951

Genre analysis has become firmly established as one of the most popular frameworks for the study of specialized genres in academic, professional and institutional as well as other workplace contexts. In recent years, genre theory has also developed in the direction of a more comprehensive and powerful multi-dimensional and multi-perspectived framework to examine not only the text but also the context in a much more meaningful manner than had ever been done earlier. The theoretical perspectives and the individual case studies of this volume testify to the wide range of methodological tools made available by genre theory, enabling researchers to handle problems relating to the description of variations in language use. Moreover, the following relevant issues are addressed: how are specialized genres constructed, interpreted and exploited in the achievement of specific goals in highly specialized contexts?

New Approaches to Specialized English Lexicology and Lexicography

New Approaches to Specialized English Lexicology and Lexicography
Author: Marián Alesón
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2010-10-12
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1443826251

This book gathers some of the latest approaches to Lexicology and Lexicography, which span from research on language for specific purposes to the study of lexical constellations and translation. It aims to present a multifaceted insight on current trends and, thus, includes papers that explore lexical processes in several areas, which comprise fields so diverse and riveting such as the language of cinema, fashion, tourism, and even comics. In addition, other papers examine the lexicon of well-established professional languages, such as the language of law, medicine and business, by revealing leading-edge perspectives on topics such as translation, word-formation, cultural clashes, or lexical selection. Key issues on learning and teaching are also considered, as part of a long tradition in the study of professional and academic languages that posits users’ learning needs as the cornerstone to the study of these languages. Therefore, this work proposes a strong emphasis on lexis and terminology, which are highlighted as the fundamental core of the definition and analysis of specialized languages. All in all, this publication intends, on the one hand, to embrace current trends in the study of specialized lexicon and terminology from the perspective of both Lexicology and Lexicography, and, on the other hand, to open new possibilities for future research.

Language, Culture and the Law

Language, Culture and the Law
Author: Vijay Kumar Bhatia
Publisher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2008
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9783039114702

The volume presents a set of invited papers based on analyses of legal discourse drawn from a number of international contexts where often the English language and legal culture has had to adjust to legal concepts very different from those of the English law system. Many of the papers were inspired by two major projects on legal language and inter-multiculturality: Generic Integrity in Legislative Discourse in Multilingual and Multicultural Contexts based in Hong Kong and carried out by an international team and Interculturality in Domain-specific English, a national project supported by the Italian Ministry for Education and Research, involving research units from five Italian universities