Chapter 4. Academic and professional genres
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Giovanni Parodi✝
Abstract
This chapter focuses on describing the largest available on-line corpora (59 million words) of written specialized Spanish on four disciplines: Psychology, Social Work, Industrial Chemistry, and Construction Engineering. The corpora were collected in one Chilean university and in the corresponding professional settings. The corpus description shows that access to disciplinary knowledge is constructed, on the one hand, through a varying repertoire of nine written academic genres. On the other hand, a larger group of twenty-eight professional genres is detected. Interesting variations across the four disciplines under study are identified.
Abstract
This chapter focuses on describing the largest available on-line corpora (59 million words) of written specialized Spanish on four disciplines: Psychology, Social Work, Industrial Chemistry, and Construction Engineering. The corpora were collected in one Chilean university and in the corresponding professional settings. The corpus description shows that access to disciplinary knowledge is constructed, on the one hand, through a varying repertoire of nine written academic genres. On the other hand, a larger group of twenty-eight professional genres is detected. Interesting variations across the four disciplines under study are identified.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Foreword ix
- About the authors xi
- Introduction 1
- Acknowledgments 5
- Chapter 1. Discourse genres, academic and professional discourses 7
- Chapter 2. Written discourse genres 17
- Chapter 3. Discourse genres in the PUCV-2006 Academic and Professional Corpus of Spanish 37
- Chapter 4. Academic and professional genres 65
- Chapter 5. University academic genres 83
- Chapter 6. Multi-dimentional analysis of an academic corpus in Spanish 101
- Chapter 7. Automatic text classification of disciplinary texts 121
- Chapter 8. Rhetorical organisation of Textbooks 143
- Chapter 9. The Textbook genre and its rhetorical organisation in four scientific disciplines 171
- Chapter 10. The Disciplinary Text genre as a means for accessing disciplinary knowledge 189
- Chapter 11. Academic discourse comprehension in Spanish and English 213
- Chapter 12. Corollary 233
- References 239
- Index 253
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Foreword ix
- About the authors xi
- Introduction 1
- Acknowledgments 5
- Chapter 1. Discourse genres, academic and professional discourses 7
- Chapter 2. Written discourse genres 17
- Chapter 3. Discourse genres in the PUCV-2006 Academic and Professional Corpus of Spanish 37
- Chapter 4. Academic and professional genres 65
- Chapter 5. University academic genres 83
- Chapter 6. Multi-dimentional analysis of an academic corpus in Spanish 101
- Chapter 7. Automatic text classification of disciplinary texts 121
- Chapter 8. Rhetorical organisation of Textbooks 143
- Chapter 9. The Textbook genre and its rhetorical organisation in four scientific disciplines 171
- Chapter 10. The Disciplinary Text genre as a means for accessing disciplinary knowledge 189
- Chapter 11. Academic discourse comprehension in Spanish and English 213
- Chapter 12. Corollary 233
- References 239
- Index 253
