Researching Specialized Languages

The present collection of articles represents research efforts in the field of specialised languages, including the analysis of research articles in disciplines as diverse as Biomedicine and Computing, on the one hand, and overlapping disciplines such as in Social Sciences, on the other, all with high relevance to English for Academic Purposes, and English for specific Purposes. The volume offers empirical evidence obtained from corpus-based analyses of language, both from diachronic as well as synchronic perspectives, on topics such as the role of mother tongue in professional writing, the analysis of conference abstracts as a genre, or the analysis of visual data transfer. This collection addresses issues such as the implementation of lexicons for specialised language learning, and the development of ontologies to research language patterns. The volume thus provides a rich repertoire of research methodologies, in-depth analyses of specialised discourses, and the identification and discussion of relevant pedagogic issues.Winner of the 4th Edition of the 'Enrique Alcaraz Research Award'

Oksana Ksenzenko, Moscow State University, in World Englishes 33(2): 303-305, 2014:
This volume contains papers contributed by scholars from various countries and, consequently, with different sociocultural and sociolinguistic backgrounds, representing various academic schools and working within different spheres of LSP. This variety of approaches, aspects and ideas discussed by the researchers, alongside exhaustive theoretical considerations and practically valuable materials introduced in the publications cited in the volume, make this book ‘nutritious’ food for thought and give readers a powerful stimulus for further investigation into professional communication and specialized languages.