Corpora and academic writing
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Céline Poudat
Abstract
Research articles represent a major form of academic discourse and are known to vary based on genre and discipline. Although numerous studies have been conducted to describe and explain these variations, few of them have used quantitative methods. However, text statistics is particularly well developed in France, and the methods and tools developed would be very useful for ESP and EAP teachers and corpus linguists. The present chapter offers an overview of the main methods that have been developed, and combines qualitative and text-statistics approaches to examine variation between the academic fields of biology and linguistics, two disciplines that differ widely with respect to their experimental approaches, methodology, and intellectual communities and history. Keywords: academic genres; corpus linguistics; text statistics
Abstract
Research articles represent a major form of academic discourse and are known to vary based on genre and discipline. Although numerous studies have been conducted to describe and explain these variations, few of them have used quantitative methods. However, text statistics is particularly well developed in France, and the methods and tools developed would be very useful for ESP and EAP teachers and corpus linguists. The present chapter offers an overview of the main methods that have been developed, and combines qualitative and text-statistics approaches to examine variation between the academic fields of biology and linguistics, two disciplines that differ widely with respect to their experimental approaches, methodology, and intellectual communities and history. Keywords: academic genres; corpus linguistics; text statistics
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Preface vii
- Issues in corpus-informed research and learning in ESP 1
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Part I. ESP corpora for language research
- From text to corpus 17
- Phraseological patterns in a large corpus of biomedical articles 45
- A corpus-based study of adjectival vs nominal modification in medical English 83
- Semantic prosody and specialised translation, or how a lexico-grammatical theory of language can help with specialised translation 103
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Part II. ESP corpora for genre-based approaches
- Oralising text slides in scientific conference presentations 137
- Corpora and academic writing 167
- Measuring the construction of discoursal expertise through corpus-based genre analysis 193
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Part III. ESP corpora for language teaching and learning
- Bringing data and dictionary together 217
- Raising collective awareness of rhetorical strategies 239
- Corpus consultation for ESP 261
- Notes on contributors 293
- Author index 297
- Subject index 301
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Preface vii
- Issues in corpus-informed research and learning in ESP 1
-
Part I. ESP corpora for language research
- From text to corpus 17
- Phraseological patterns in a large corpus of biomedical articles 45
- A corpus-based study of adjectival vs nominal modification in medical English 83
- Semantic prosody and specialised translation, or how a lexico-grammatical theory of language can help with specialised translation 103
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Part II. ESP corpora for genre-based approaches
- Oralising text slides in scientific conference presentations 137
- Corpora and academic writing 167
- Measuring the construction of discoursal expertise through corpus-based genre analysis 193
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Part III. ESP corpora for language teaching and learning
- Bringing data and dictionary together 217
- Raising collective awareness of rhetorical strategies 239
- Corpus consultation for ESP 261
- Notes on contributors 293
- Author index 297
- Subject index 301
