Researching Specialized Languages

List of contributors


Introduction
Vijay Bhatia, Purificación Sánchez Hernández and Pascual Pérez-Paredes


Section one. Research based on corpora


The historical shift of scientific academic prose in English towards less explicit styles of expression: Writing without Verbs
Douglas Biber and Bethany Gray


Heteroglossic (dis)engagement and the construal of the ideal readership: Dialogic spaces in academic texts
Carmen Pérez-Llantada


Structure, content and functions of calls for conference abstracts
Sara Gesuato


Summarizing findings: An all-pervasive move in open access biomedical research articles involves rephrasing strategies
Mercedes Jaime-Sisó


The use of adverbial hedges in EAP students' oral performance: A cross-language analysis
Pascual Pérez-Paredes, Purificación Sánchez Hernández and Pilar Aguado Jiménez


Integrating approaches to visual data transfer: An exploratory case study
Carmen Sancho Guinda


Section two. Research based on meta-analysis and applications in LSP


Some dichotomies in genre analysis for Languages for specific purposes
John Flowerdew


English for legal purposes and domain-specific cultural awareness: The 'continental paradox', definition, causes and evolution
Shaeda Isani


The talking cure: From narrative to academic argument
Gillian Diane Lazar


UrgentiAS, a lexical database for medical students in clinical placements: Architecture, use and evaluation
Kris Buyse, Eva Saver, An Laffut and Herlinda Vekemans


Using natural language patterns for the development of ontologies
Elena Montiel-Ponsoda and Guadalupe Aguado de Cea


Notes on contributors