Lexical Processes in Scientific Discourse Popularisation: A corpus-linguistic study of the SARS coverage - Couverture souple

Brand, Christiane

 
9783631560129: Lexical Processes in Scientific Discourse Popularisation: A corpus-linguistic study of the SARS coverage

Synopsis

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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À propos de l?auteur

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.

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9780820487533: Lexical Processes in Scientific Discourse Popularisation: A Corpus-linguistic Study of the Sars Coverage

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0820487538 ISBN 13 :  9780820487533
Editeur : Peter Lang Pub Inc, 2007
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