Corpus-Informed Research and Learning in ESP: Issues and Applications (Studies in Corpus Linguistics)

Alex Boulton; Shirley Carter-Thomas; Elizabeth Rowley-Jolivet

ISBN 10: 9027203571 / ISBN 13: 9789027203571

Published by John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2012

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Hardcover, x + 306 pages, NOT ex-library. Book is clean, crisp, and bright with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Boards show small indentations. Issued without a dust jacket. -- 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. -- Contents: Preface / John M. Swales; Issues in Corpus-informed Research and Learning in ESP; Part I. ESP Corpora for Language Research -- From Text to Corpus: A Contrastive Analysis of First Person Pronouns in Economics Article Introductions in English and French / Shirley Carter-Thomas & Angela Chambers; Phraseological Patterns in a Large Corpus of Biomedical Articles / Anthony Saber; A Corpus-based Study of Adjectival vs Nominal Modification in Medical English / François Maniez; Semantic Prosody and Specialised Translation, or How a Lexico-Grammatical Theory of Language Can Help With Specialised Translation / Natalie Kübler & Alexandra Volanschi; Part II. ESP Corpora for Genre-based Approaches -- Oralising Text Slides in Scientific Conference Presentations: A Multimodal Corpus Analysis / Elizabeth Rowley-Jolivet; Corpora and Academic Writing: A Contrastive Analysis of Research Articles in Biology and Linguistics / Céline Poudat & Peter Follette; Measuring the Construction of Discoursal Expertise Through Corpus-based Genre Analysis / Dacia Dressen-Hammouda; Part III. ESP Corpora for Language Teaching and Learning -- Bringing Data and Dictionary Together: Real Science in Real Dictionaries / Geoffrey Williams; Raising Collective Awareness of Rhetorical Strategies: Using an Online Writing Tool to Demonstrate Discourse Moves in the ESP Classroom / Sue Birch-Bécaas & Ray Cooke; Corpus Consultation for ESP: A Review of Empirical Research / Alex Boulton; Notes on Contributors; Author Index; Subject Index.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Corpus-Informed Research and Learning in ESP: Issues and Applications (Studies in Corpus Linguistics)
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027203571
• ISBN 13: 9789027203571
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Near Fine

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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.