Biomedical English
A corpus-based approach
Published on 27. June 2013
Book
Hardback
214 pages
978-90-272-0362-5 (ISBN)
Description
The corpus-based studies in this volume explore biomedical research writing in English from a variety of perspectives. The articles in this collection delve into the lexicographic issues involved in building an electronic database of collocations and lexical bundles, offer insight on the teaching and learning of prototypical multiword units of meaning in biomedical discourse, and view written scientific English through the lens of such diverse fields as phraseology, metaphor, gender and discourse analysis. The research presented in this book forms the theoretical and methodological foundation of SciE-Lex, a lexical database of collocations and prefabricated expressions designed to help scientists write scientific papers in English accurately. The concluding chapter on FrameNet addresses frame semantics, whose application to the cross-linguistic study of scientific language will open new and promising avenues of research in the study of specialized languages.
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This volume opens up new areas of research in the area of sublanguages. Making use of data from a corpus of research articles in biomedicine the contributions in this collection address different aspects of biomedical language such as lexicogrammatical patterns, discourse analysis, lexicography, needs analysis and pedagogical applications. -- Karin Aijmer, University of Gothenburg, SwedenMore details
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
+ index
Weight
585 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-0362-5 (9789027203625)
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07/2013
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Content
1. Introduction (by Verdaguer, Isabel); 2. Collocations, lexical bundles and SciE-Lex: A review of corpus research on multiword units of meaning (by Laso, Natalia Judith); 3. SciE-Lex: A lexical database (by Verdaguer, Isabel); 4. Formal and functional variation of lexical bundles in biomedical English (by Salazar, Danica); 5. A corpus-based analysis of the collocational patterning of adjectives with abstract nouns in medical English (by Laso, Natalia Judith); 6. As described below: A corpus-based approach to the verb describe in scientific English (by Ventura, Aaron); 7. Negation in biomedical English (by Laso, Natalia Judith); 8. A cross-disciplinary analysis of personal and impersonal features in English and Spanish scientific writing (by Salazar, Danica); 9. Gender assignment in present-day scientific English: A case study in the field of Zoology journals (by Guzman-Gonzalez, Trinidad); 10. The metaphorical basis of discourse structure (by Castano, Emilia); 11. Frames, constructions, and metaphors in Spanish FrameNet (by Subirats, Carlos); 12. Subject index