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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812918403321

Titolo

Researching specialized languages / / edited by Vijay Bhatia, Purificación Sánchez Hernández, Pascual Pérez-Paredes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011

ISBN

1-283-28673-4

9786613286734

90-272-8505-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (246 p.)

Collana

Studies in corpus linguistics, , 1388-0373 ; ; v. 47

Altri autori (Persone)

BhatiaV. K <1942-> (Vijay Kumar)

HernándezPurificación Sánchez

Pérez-ParedesPascual

Disciplina

410.1/88

Soggetti

Discourse analysis

Professional employees - Language

Corpora (Linguistics)

Oral communication

Sublanguage

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

section 1. Research based on corpora -- section 2. Research based on meta-analysis and applications in LSP.

Sommario/riassunto

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,