基本説明
These specially-commissioned studies cover corpus-informed approaches to researching, teaching and learning English for Specific Purposes (ESP). It is the first full-length book on applied corpus use in France.
Full Description
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
1. Preface (by Swales, John M.); 2. Issues in corpus-informed research and learning in ESP (by Boulton, Alex); 3. Part I. ESP corpora for language research; 4. From text to corpus: A contrastive analysis of first person pronouns in economics article introductions in English and French (by Carter-Thomas, Shirley); 5. Phraseological patterns in a large corpus of biomedical articles (by Saber, Anthony); 6. A corpus-based study of adjectival vs nominal modification in medical English (by Maniez, Francois); 7. Semantic prosody and specialised translation, or how a lexico-grammatical theory of language can help with specialised translation (by Kubler, Natalie); 8. Part II. ESP corpora for genre-based approaches; 9. Oralising text slides in scientific conference presentations: A multimodal corpus analysis (by Rowley-Jolivet, Elizabeth); 10. Corpora and academic writing: A contrastive analysis of research articles in biology and linguistics (by Poudat, Celine); 11. Measuring the construction of discoursal expertise through corpus-based genre analysis (by Dressen-Hammouda, Dacia); 12. Part III. ESP corpora for language teaching and learning; 13. Bringing data and dictionary together: Real science in real dictionaries (by Williams, Geoffrey); 14. Raising collective awareness of rhetorical strategies: Using an online writing tool to demonstrate discourse moves in the ESP classroom (by Birch-Becaas, Sue); 15. Corpus consultation for ESP: A review of empirical research (by Boulton, Alex); 16. Notes on contributors; 17. Author index; 18. Subject index
