When linguistics meets computer science: Stylometry
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When linguistics meets computer science: Stylometry
Fostering civility and politeness awareness in professional discourse: Critical genre analysis of course books in profes...
Published in Lodz Papers in Pragmatics
This paper aims to analyse a set of communicative events within the service encounter genre in tourism and leisure interdiscursive domains as displayed in course books on professional communication in English (commonly pointing to ESP). These supposedly replicate interaction in real life settings. Therefore, it is relevant to uncover the ways authe...
Teksty farmaceutyczne i dyskurs farmaceutyczny: definicje, specyfika i krótki przegląd pola badawczego / Pharmaceutical ...
This chapter aims to familiarize readers with the specificity of pharmaceutical discourse, including its spoken and written text varieties. I paid particular attention to two issues. Firstly, pharmaceutical discourse and pharmaceutical texts are often classified by researchers into broader category of medical or biomedical discourse. Second, pharma...
Enhancing thematic competence by exposure to professional discourse in economic translation
This paper discusses a situation in a course on economic translation for BA students, and tries to show how exposure to professional discourse helps master the “lingo” of the professional community. An experiment was carried out to show what impact, if any, exposure to professional discourse has on the terminological and phraseological quality as w...
Evolution of the professional discourse of urban planning in the specialized press in the interwar Lithuanian republic (...
Urban planning in the interwar Lithuanian republic is still lacking a wider research. National school of the discipline was developing in difficult conditions, without most of the needed resources. A theoretical and critical basis was developing parallelly, which was in search of it’s own ideal model of urban planning. Article looks at the genesis ...
Professional discourse in multilingual settings: policies and practices
Published in Multilingua
Lärares bedömningsspråk : Språkhandlingar, bedömning och språklig utformning i grundskolans skriftliga omdömen / Teacher...
This thesis studies elementary school teachers’ language use in written assessments of students, and problematises the relation between teachers’ experiences of written assessment and the institutional and social expectations of professional language use. The study is based on three types of material: questionnaires answered by 39 teachers, intervi...
The study of conceptual metaphors in ESAP L2 writing: range and variability
The article presents the study of the influence of professional competence of EFL learners on their academic writing. The task was approached through analyzing learners’ competence in specific knowledge domains - knowledge of terms and specific concepts, represented as conceptual metaphors. Conceptual metaphor models were analyzed in the English wr...
Utredning inleds : Språk, genredrag och ansvar i barnavårdsutredningar / Investigation initiated : Language, genre featu...
The aim of this thesis is to acquire a deeper knowledge of Swedish social services’ written child welfare investigations. These investigations are conducted and documented by social workers at social welfare offices, and the investigations sometimes have a major impact on the lives of individuals. The research material consists of 50 written child ...
The study of conceptual metaphors in ESAP L2 writing: range and variability
Published in Research in Language
The article presents the study of the influence of professional competence of EFL learners on their academic writing. The task was approached through analyzing learners’ competence in specific knowledge domains - knowledge of terms and specific concepts, represented as conceptual metaphors. Conceptual metaphor models were analyzed in the English wr...
