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Retrievability, Comprehensibility and Authoritativeness. Disseminating Specialized Knowledge through Online Research Article Abstracts
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Representing and redefining specialised knowledge: managing discourse appropriateness and adequacy in LSP
No full textIntroduction [a Ways of Seeing, Ways of Being: Representing the Voices of Tourism - 2017]
No full textIt is the aim of the volume to give voice to the various and different perspectives in the investigation of tourism discourse into its written, spoken, and visual aspects, in the interaction between the participants involved in the tourism practices, that is the promoters of tourist destinations, on the one hand, and tourists or prospective tourists, on the other.,. In this dialogic interaction, tourism discourse, while representing and producing tourism as a global cultural industry, shows it is on the move (Thurlow/Javowski 2011). Language movement in the tourism experience is here highlighted in the various methodological approaches and viewpoints offered by the investigations gathered in this volume
Corpus linguistics and translation tools for digital humanities: An introduction
No full textStudies in the Humanities make use of sophisticated IT resources, which in the last decades have shown a rapid development and an ever-increasing interest on the part of scholars, as testified not only by the growing numbers of publications and scientific periodicals devoted to the methodology behind various form of digital investigation, but also by the rise of master's and doctoral courses in the digital humanities. However, any attempt to describe what is meant by digital humanities has not been discrete and clear-cut: as a matter of fact, a ‘digital humanities approach’ cannot be reduced to the exploitation of computer resources in linguistics investigations. Indeed, the field of the digital humanities is at the same time a field of investigation, a domain of practice, and a set of methodologies. This volume tries to offer a new and clearer perspective of the way in which any investigation in the digital humanities should be carried out and is meant as a resource for researchers, in particular, who wish to investigate digital humanities as both a domain of practice and as a set of methodological approaches to be applied to the domains of Corpus Linguistics and Translation. Since a digital humanities approach to CL and to translation studies cannot be reduced to the simple digitalization of texts then collected in parallel corpora, and since both realms of investigation make use of software, such as, for example, CL tools, speech recognition software, translation memories, parallel corpora, etc., the chapters in this volume will offer a novel and original framework to triangulate research so as to pursue both scientific and educational goals within the digital humanities
Introduction [a Scholarly Pathways, Knowledge Transfer and Knowledge Exchange in Academia]
No full textIntroduction [to Scholarly Pathways Knowledge Transfer and Knowledge Exchange in Academia]
No full textThe present volume sets out to explore knowledge dissemination practices according to two main orientations; first, with respect to the target audience (i.e. scholars vs. novices), and then in relation to the channels (i.e. multimodal and web-based platforms) and changing strategies (i.e. popularization resources)
Plain language in legal studies: a corpus-based study
No full textThis article investigates the influence of Plain Language in legal academic research. The Plain Language Movement (PLM) in Anglophone cultures and Common Law systems considerably affected the way legal experts and practitioners use the language in professional contexts, both in writing and in oral situations. The assumption at the basis of this investigation is that the exposure to and experience with this way of using the language in professional settings is likely to have influenced the way experts write in research-related and pedagogical contexts.
Based on a comparison between a subcorpus of 40 research articles (RAs) written by English, American, and Australian authors and 40 RAs authored by experts working in Civil Law contexts – thus not affected (at least not so distinctively) by PLM ideology – this article seeks to establish the main differences in the two subcorpora especially at the interpersonal level of discourse and, more precisely, in the use of metadiscursive interactional strategies such as epistemic modality markers and personalization – both intended to facilitate interpretation by controlling assertiveness and lexicalizing the rhetorical figure of the author – and interactive metadiscourse markers like code glosses – which are meant to paraphrase or reformulate meaning to both simplify and bias the interpretive process
Introduction [a Genre Variation in Academic Communication. Emerging Disciplinary Trends]
No full textIntroduction [a: Communicating English in Specialised Domains. A Festschrift for Maurizio Gotti]
No full textThis volume is dedicated to Maurizio Gotti, in honour of his long and noteworthy academic career. Maurizio Gotti was the first student to graduate at the Faculty of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Bergamo, where he started his academic career. Here he served as Full Professor of History of the English Language and of English Language and Translation for more than two decades; he founded the internationally known research centre on specialized languages (CERLIS) and started the Linguistic Insights book series with the prestigious publishing house Peter Lang. In the course of his career he has also been assigned multiple and prestigious offices, at both national level and international level. Maurizio Gotti’s high academic profile has been reflected in his experience as a visiting professor in many universities around the world where he carried out research and teaching activities.
Maurizio Gotti’s intellectual endeavours have encompassed many knowledge domains: He has made significant contributions to multiple areas of study including specialized discourses, lexicography, history of the English language and language teaching. His work has significantly contributed to extending and expanding existing research territories in both synchronic and diachronic domains, but has also, and distinctively, contributed to establishing and defining new areas of investigation, bringing together and harmonizing methodologies and applying them to a specific range of communicative events generally grouped under the label of specialized communication, which comprises academic, economic, legal, political, medical, and tourism discourses. This wide-ranging collection brings together essays from these various fields of enquiry authored by an international group of scholars whose academic input interacts in various ways with ideas and topics introduced or extensively discussed in Maurizio Gotti's studies. The chapters have been grouped in four theme-based sections representing the main threads in Maurizio Gotti’s research, from the macro area of specialised discourse to the more specific fields of research, namely academic and legal languages. The fourth section includes contributions dealing with the history of English language, and is followed by a miscellaneous section which concludes the collection
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