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Patterns, Meaningful Units and Specialized Discourses

Author : Ute Römer,Rainer Schulze
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027222527

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Patterns, Meaningful Units and Specialized Discourses by Ute Römer,Rainer Schulze Pdf

This collection of papers explores some facets in the areas of Corpus Linguistics and Phraseology which have gone unnoticed so far. With the aid of a range of different corpora and new-generation software tools, the authors tackle specialized domains and discourse in specialized settings, utilizing some innovative approaches to the study of recurrent features and patterns in the languages of economics, history, linguistics, politics, and other fields. The papers critically examine contemporary discourses in which experts and laypersons are equally involved, showing that the spoken and written texts, selected from various specialized corpora, can be seen as collective memory banks. The series of reflections and specialized meanings uncovered in these texts are closely tied to particular sequences of patterned chunks in language and offer exciting insights into the inseparability of lexis and grammar.The contributions to this volume were previously published in "International Journal of Corpus Linguistics" 13:3 (2008).

Cognitive Approaches to Specialist Languages

Author : Marcin Grygiel
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443892209

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Cognitive Approaches to Specialist Languages by Marcin Grygiel Pdf

Specialist languages, such as the languages of law, business, aviation, football, and politics, can be perceived as highly conventionalized, semi-natural and not fully autonomous communication codes limited to specific, and predominantly formal, situations. A large number of them can be best characterized by subject matter and semantic content, but the most important distinctive element in their make-up is the frame of context in which they are embedded. This volume discusses various ways of approaching the problems associated with the very broad phenomenon of specialist languages by means of the analytical mechanisms and theoretical conceptions developed within the framework of Cognitive Linguistics. The volume includes research carried out by world-renowned experts in the field.

Metaphor in Specialist Discourse

Author : J. Berenike Herrmann,Tony Berber Sardinha
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027267849

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Metaphor in Specialist Discourse by J. Berenike Herrmann,Tony Berber Sardinha Pdf

Metaphor in Specialist Discourse presents multiple perspectives on metaphor use in specialist and popularized discourse contexts. Using genre and register as starting parameters for deeper exploration, and pushing the boundaries further to open up new areas and possibilities, ten independent articles investigate metaphor use across a range of specialist domains of discourse, such as biology research articles, psychological counseling, soccer commentaries, workfloor communication, and penal policy documents. Framed by two theoretical chapters, the book is a contribution to the study of metaphor use in distinct discourse settings that will be of value to linguists and metaphor scholars of different persuasions, graduate students of linguistics and related disciplines, and practitioners of specialized areas with an interest in (verbal or gestural) language use in their areas of expertise. It shows that aspects of discourse variation are the beginning of, not an afterthought to, accurate empirical metaphor studies.

Corpus-Informed Research and Learning in ESP

Author : Alex Boulton,Shirley Carter-Thomas,Elizabeth Rowley-Jolivet
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027273949

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Corpus-Informed Research and Learning in ESP by Alex Boulton,Shirley Carter-Thomas,Elizabeth Rowley-Jolivet Pdf

These specially-commissioned studies cover corpus-informed approaches to researching, teaching and learning English for Specific Purposes (ESP). The corpora used range from very large published corpora to small tailor-made collections of written and spoken text, as well as parallel and contrastive corpora, in both the hard and softer sciences. Designed to tackle the problems faced by a variety of first- and second-language ESP users (specialised translators, undergraduates, junior and experienced researchers, and language trainers), the breadth of approaches enables treatment of issues central to ESP and corpus research, from corpus compilation and analysis to new applications and data-driven learning. The first full-length book on applied corpus use in France, Corpus-Informed Research and Learning in ESP will be of interest not only to those working in the French context, but to a wide variety of language professionals – teachers, researchers or course designers – in many countries looking at ESP from different linguistic, cultural and educational perspectives.

Variation and Change in Spoken and Written Discourse

Author : Julia Bamford,Silvia Cavalieri,Giuliana Diani
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027271211

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Variation and Change in Spoken and Written Discourse by Julia Bamford,Silvia Cavalieri,Giuliana Diani Pdf

This book focuses on aspects of variation and change in language use in spoken and written discourse on the basis of corpus analyses, providing new descriptive insights, and new methods of utilising small specialized corpora for the description of language variation and change. The sixteen contributions included in this volume represent a variety of diverse views and approaches, but all share the common goal of throwing light on a crucial dimension of discourse: the dialogic interactivity between the spoken and written. Their foci range from papers addressing general issues related to corpus analysis of spoken dialogue to papers focusing on specific cases employing a variety of analytical tools, including qualitative and quantitative analysis of small and large corpora. The present volume constitutes a highly valuable tool for applied linguists and discourse analysts as well as for students, instructors and language teachers.

Corpora in Applied Linguistics

Author : Susan Hunston
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-05
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781108425094

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Corpora in Applied Linguistics by Susan Hunston Pdf

This completely rewritten second edition provides a thorough introduction to corpus research from the point of view of Applied Linguistics.

Multilingual Processing in Eastern and Southern EU Languages

Author : Cristina Vertan
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443839624

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Multilingual Processing in Eastern and Southern EU Languages by Cristina Vertan Pdf

This volume draws attention to many specific challenges of multilingual processing within the European Union, especially after the recent successive enlargement. Most of the languages considered herein are not only ‘less resourced’ in terms of processing tools and training data, but also have features which are different from the well known international language pairs. The 16 contributions address specific problems and solutions for languages from south-eastern and central Europe in the context of multilingual communication, translation and information retrieval.

Language and Canadian Media

Author : Rachelle Vessey
Publisher : Springer
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781137530011

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Language and Canadian Media by Rachelle Vessey Pdf

Language Ideologies and Canadian Media explores how French and English Canadian media discuss languages and language issues, which language ideologies predominate in English and French, and whether language ideologies in traditional news media are transferred to new and social media. Using corpus linguistics and discourse analysis and a variety of different datasets ranging from print newspapers to online news, commentary and Twitter, the author argues that language ideologies in Canadian media have a bearing not only on the extent to which Canadian language policies are adopted, but also on the very way that Canadians understand themselves and their place in the nation.

Changing English

Author : Markku Filppula,Juhani Klemola,Anna Mauranen,Svetlana Vetchinnikova
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110429657

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Changing English by Markku Filppula,Juhani Klemola,Anna Mauranen,Svetlana Vetchinnikova Pdf

This book examines the special nature of English both as a global and a local language, focusing on some of the ongoing changes and on the emerging new structural and discoursal characteristics of varieties of English. Although it is widely recognised that processes of language change and contact bear affinities, for example, to processes observable in second-language acquisition and lingua franca use, the research into these fields has so far not been sufficiently brought into contact with each other. The articles in this volume set out to combine all these perspectives in ways that give us a better understanding of the changing nature of English in the modern world.

Language and Law in Professional Discourse

Author : Vijay K. Bhatia,Giuliana Elena Garzone,Girolamo Tessuto
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781443857666

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Language and Law in Professional Discourse by Vijay K. Bhatia,Giuliana Elena Garzone,Girolamo Tessuto Pdf

This book provides insights into the ways in which legal professionals participate in their day-to-day activities, and critically focuses on how language is used and exploited in everyday professional discourse. It is organised into two parts dealing with topic areas of legal discourse (written and spoken) relevant to professional practice and communication. The innovative research landscape offered by this book covers diverse and complex features of legal discourse construction where socially informed aspects of language use are negotiated by professional practices. Such features provide the wide scope for the critical study of legal language as a tool for social action, and set up a descriptive and interpretive framework for engaging with representations of legal discourses and genres where authority, power, ideology, as well as areas of hybridity, intertextuality, interdiscursivity and recontextualization are involved in legal discourse. This book brings together scholars from a wide academic spectrum around the globe with an interest in the intricacies of language and law as they play out in the real world. The book, therefore, offers both a resource and a stimulus to the wider readership.

NARRATIVE VOICE IN POPULAR SCIENCE IN THE BRITISH PRESS: A CORPUS ANALYSIS ON THE CONSTRUAL OF ATTRIBUTED MEANINGS

Author : Miriam PÉREZ VENEROS
Publisher : Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9788490128367

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NARRATIVE VOICE IN POPULAR SCIENCE IN THE BRITISH PRESS: A CORPUS ANALYSIS ON THE CONSTRUAL OF ATTRIBUTED MEANINGS by Miriam PÉREZ VENEROS Pdf

Esta tesis doctoral versa sobre el estudio de la construcción de la atribución del significado en la diseminación de la ciencia en la prensa británica a través del análisis de los recursos utilizados por el periodista para integrar en su narración de los hechos científicos lo que otras fuentes externas han dicho. El fenómeno de la atribución en el discurso académico, científico y de los medios de comunicación se ha descrito previamente desde una perspectiva interpersonal mediante el análisis de la evaluación y de la teoría de la valoración (‘appraisal’). Además, otras investigaciones previas se han centrado también en el estudio de cómo los elementos experienciales de la atribución. Sin embargo, el estudio llevado a cabo en esta tesis doctoral trata de proporcionar una descripción más exhaustiva y una visión global de cómo se construye la atribución desde una perspectiva experiencial. El objetivo de esta tesis es explorar cómo los elementos experienciales que construyen la atribución coocurren en cada una de las unidades de voz identificadas y contribuyen tanto a la interacción del periodista con sus lectores como al posicionamiento epistemológico de dicho periodista con respecto de la información narrada.

The Phraseological View of Language

Author : Thomas Herbst,Susen Faulhaber,Peter Uhrig
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110257014

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The Phraseological View of Language by Thomas Herbst,Susen Faulhaber,Peter Uhrig Pdf

This volume presents the results of the international symposium Chunks in Corpus Linguistics and Cognitive Linguistics, held at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg to honour John Sinclair's contribution to the development of linguistics in the second half of the twentieth century. The main theme of the book, highlighting important aspects of Sinclair's work, is the idiomatic character of language with a focus on chunks (in the sense of prefabricated items) as extended units of meaning. To pay tribute to Sinclair's enormous impact on research in this field, the volume contains two contributions which deal explicitly with his work, including material from unpublished manuscripts. Beyond that, the articles cover different aspects of chunks ranging from more theoretically-oriented to more applied papers, in which foreign language teaching and the computational application of the insights about the nature of language provided by corpus research play an important role. The volume demonstrates the wide applicability and relevance of the notion of chunks by bringing together research from different fields of linguistics such as theoretical linguistics, psycholinguistics, computational linguistics and foreign language teaching, and thus provides an interdisciplinary view on the impact of idiomaticity in language.

Evaluation in English Tourism Texts on Chinese, British and American Websites

Author : KANG NING
Publisher : American Academic Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781631817748

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Evaluation in English Tourism Texts on Chinese, British and American Websites by KANG NING Pdf

Informed by the APPRAISAL Theory, this book analyses the construction of evaluative meanings in web-based English tourism texts (ETTs). It investigates the semantic potentiality of evaluative meaning in English tourism texts on Chinese, British and American websites, as well as the similarities and differences in constructing evaluation among the three varieties of ETTs. It is aimed to discover the characteristic preferences for particular appraisal resources in constructing evaluation in native ETTs, and to find out the deficiencies in using evaluation in ETTs on Chinese websites. Two analytical procedures are adopted: first, based on large corpus files, it discusses the semantic potentiality for evaluative meaning in the three types of ETTs; then, various evaluation features are explored in detail concerning resources of ATTITUDE, ENGAGEMENT and GRADUATION under the APPRAISAL framework. All discussions are conducted by combining quantitative statistics with qualitative analyses. Theoretically, the study modifies and extends some aspects of the APPRAISAL Theory so as to facilitate the analysis of evaluation in tourism discourse. The study is also instructive for Chinese ESL/EFL writers in writing English tourist texts or translating Chinese tourism texts into English.

Probing Semantic Relations

Author : Alain Auger,Caroline Barrière
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027222534

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Probing Semantic Relations by Alain Auger,Caroline Barrière Pdf

Semantic relations are at the core of any representational system, and are keys to enable the next generation of information processing systems with semantic and reasoning capabilities. Acquisition, description, and formalization of semantic relations are fundamentals in computer-based systems where natural language processing is required. "Probing Semantic Relations" provides a state of the art of current research trends in the area of knowledge extraction from text using linguistic patterns. First published as a Special Issue of "Terminology" 14:1 (2008), the current book emphasizes how definitional knowledge is conveyed by conceptual and semantic relations such as synonymy, causality, hypernymy (generic specific), and meronymy (part whole). Showing the difficulties and successes of pattern-based approaches, the book illustrates current and future challenges in knowledge acquisition from text. This book provides new perspectives to researchers and practitioners in terminology, knowledge engineering, natural language processing, and semantics."

Language for Specific Purposes

Author : Giuliana Elena Garzone,Dermot Heaney,Giorgia Riboni
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443862738

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Language for Specific Purposes by Giuliana Elena Garzone,Dermot Heaney,Giorgia Riboni Pdf

This volume brings together work by both well-known scholars and emerging researchers in the various areas of Language for Specific Purposes (LSP), such as political, legal, medical, and business discourse. The volume is divided into three parts in order to align rather than separate three different but related aspects of LSP: namely, translation, linguistic research, and domain specific communication on the web. Underlying all the contributions here is the growing awareness of the ever-increasing multiformity of specialised communication and the ever-wider social implications of the communicative situations in which it is embedded, especially where it involves the need to move across languages, cultures and modes, as in translation and interpreting. The contributions consistently bear witness to the need to review received notions, pose new questions, and explore fresh perspectives. The picture that emerges is one of extreme complexity, in which researchers into specifically linguistic aspects of LSPs and their translation across languages and media declare their awareness of the pressing need to come to terms with a wide range of social, pragmatic, intercultural and political factors, above and beyond socio-technical knowledge of the domains under investigation.