Lexical Processes in Scientific Discourse Popularisation: A Corpus-Linguistic Study of the SARS Coverage: 5 - Brossura

Brand, Christiane

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ISBN 10: 3631560125 ISBN 13: 9783631560129

Casa editrice: Peter Lang Pub Inc, 2007

Riassunto

In today's informed society, the news media have taken it upon themselves to provide the general public with information that is technical in nature and was previously restricted to the scientific discourse community. This popular presentation of scientific or technical facts is of particular interest to the corpus-based study of Language for Specific Purposes (LSP). The characteristics of the specific domain texts, e.g. medical journal articles, are perceived as a potential barrier to communication by the layman and this linguistic barrier must be lowered by awareness of and adaptation to the communicative competence of the general audience. Using corpus-linguistic methodology, the present study focuses on processes on the word level, placing special emphasis on collocations and semantic prosodies. On the basis of the findings of the corpus analysis, a comprehensive model of lexical popularisation is sketched out.

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Informazioni sull?autore

The Author : Christiane Brand is Lecturer in English Linguistics in the Department of English at Justus Liebig University Gießen (Germany), where she obtained her Ph.D. in 2006. Her research and teaching interests include Corpus Linguistics, Language for Specific Purposes, Intercultural Communication and Second Language Acquisition.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Peter Lang Pub Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3631560125
• ISBN 13: 9783631560129
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 214
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile