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The Most Frequently-Used Multi-Word Constructions in Academic Written English: A Multi-Corpus Study
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Liu, Dilin – English for Specific Purposes, 2012
Using the academic writing sub-corpora of the Corpus of Contemporary American English and the British National Corpus as data and building on previous research, this study strives to identify the most frequently-used multi-word constructions (MWCs) of various types (e.g., idioms, lexical bundles, and phrasal/prepositional verbs) in general…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Semantics, North American English, Computational Linguistics
A Contrastive Study of the Rhetorical Organisation of English and Spanish PhD Thesis Introductions
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Soler-Monreal, Carmen; Carbonell-Olivares, Maria; Gil-Salom, Luz – English for Specific Purposes, 2011
This paper presents an analysis of the introductory sections of a corpus of 20 doctoral theses on computing written in Spanish and in English. Our aim was to ascertain whether the theses, produced within the same scientific-technological area but by authors from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds, employed the same rhetorical strategies…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Doctoral Dissertations, Graduate Students, Contrastive Linguistics
"Small Bits of Textual Material": A Discourse Analysis of Swales' Writing
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Hyland, Ken – English for Specific Purposes, 2008
Despite his considerable influence on the development of ESP and all our professional lives, almost nothing has been written about John Swales' distinctive prose style. Based on a 340,000 word corpus comprising 14 single-authored papers and most chapters from his three main books, this paper sets out to identify the main features of this style.…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Writing (Composition), English for Special Purposes
English Loanwords in Spanish Computer Language
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Cabanillas, Isabel de la Cruz; Martinez, Cristina Tejedor; Prados, Mercedes Diez; Redondo, Esperanza Cerda – English for Specific Purposes, 2007
Contact with the English language, especially from the 20th century onwards, has had as a consequence an increase in the number of words that are borrowed from English into Spanish. This process is particularly noticeable in Spanish for Specific Purposes, and, more specifically, in the case of Spanish computer language. Although sociocultural and…
Descriptors: Linguistic Borrowing, English, Programming, Spanish
Through the Looking Glass and into the Land of Lexico-Grammar
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Hancioglu, Nilgun; Neufeld, Steven; Eldridge, John – English for Specific Purposes, 2008
This article describes two complementary research projects into lexical patterning and frequency in general and academic English. The research suggests that treating current popularly used wordlists such as the General Service List (GSL) and the Academic Word List (AWL) as distinct constructs is of questionable merit. Rather, there are strong…
Descriptors: Word Lists, Word Frequency, English (Second Language), Academic Discourse
Collocational Frameworks in Medical Research Papers: A Genre-Based Study.
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Marco, Maria Jose Luzon – English for Specific Purposes, 2000
Focuses on the usefulness of corpus-based analysis to discover linguistic patterns selected and favored by a specific genre. Results show that the frameworks "the . . . of,""A . . . of," and "be . . .to," when used in medical papers, enclose restricted sets of lexical items and that the selection of specific…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, English for Science and Technology, Language Patterns, Language Styles