23.1052, Books: Current Trends in LSP Research: Petersen, Engberg (Eds)

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Title: Current Trends in LSP Research 
Subtitle: Aims and Methods 
Series Title: Linguistic Insights - Volume 144  

Publication Year: 2012 
Publisher: Peter Lang AG
	   http://www.peterlang.com
	

Book URL: http://www.peterlang.com/?431054 


Editor: Margrethe Petersen
Editor: Jan Engberg

Paperback: ISBN:  9783034310543 Pages: 323 Price: U.S. $ 91.95
Paperback: ISBN:  9783034310543 Pages: 323 Price: U.K. £ 55.00
Paperback: ISBN:  9783034310543 Pages: 323 Price: Europe EURO 60.70 Comment: for Germany EURO 64.90, for Austria EURO 66.80 (incl. VAT)


Abstract:

This volume offers an overview of new perspectives and ongoing 
developments in research on Language for Specific Purposes (LSP) and 
specialised discourse. Traditionally investigated on the basis of terminology 
and genre studies, the area now also draws on such diverse fields as 
sociolinguistics, sociology, psychology and communication studies. This 
widening range of perspectives increases the need for insights into and 
knowledge about current developments in research on LSP and specialised 
discourse.

The chapters included here have been selected to address this need. Based 
on papers presented at the XVII European LSP Symposium, they reflect its 
focus: aims and methods in current research on LSP and specialised 
discourse. Two chapters present the research history of the area, its current 
status, and emergent issues. Nine chapters exemplify methods currently 
applied, new aims pursued, or new aims supported by innovative methods. 
The methods include discourse analysis, use of specialist informants, study 
of multimedia texts, sociological observation, interviews, etc. The aims vary 
from unveiling politicians' linguistic representation of the 2008 financial 
meltdown over inclusion of visual representations in LSP research to 
clarifying the limits of lay understanding of specialised knowledge. In sum, 
the volume offers the reader a holistic, yet multi-faceted overview of state-of- 
the-art research in this area. 

Contents: Jan Engberg/Margrethe Petersen: Aims and Methods in LSP 
Research - Current Trends - Klaus Schubert: Specialized Communication 
Studies: An Expanding Discipline - Richard J. Alexander: 'If money isn't 
loosened up, this sucker could go down.' How Top Politicians Talk about 
Financial Crises - Inger Askehave/Lise-Lotte Holmgreen: Cultural Awareness 
in a Corporate Context: What Constructions of 'Culture' May Reveal - Trine 
Dahl: The Ideal Informant: On the Use of Subject Specialists in Analyses of 
LSP Texts - Azirah Hashim/Richard Powell: Exploring Language Choice in 
Malaysian Trials and Arbitrations: Common Aims, Complementary Methods - 
Beyza Björkman: Investigating English as a Lingua Franca in Applied 
Science Education: Aims, Methods, Findings and Implications - Marianne 
Grove Ditlevsen: Towards a Methodological Framework for Knowledge 
Communication - Simona Sangiorgi: The 'As If Game' of Textual Hyperreality: 
A Case Study - Martin J. Eppler/Sabrina Bresciani/Margaret Tan/Klarissa 
Chang: Expanding the Boundaries of LSP Research: Using Intercultural 
Experiments to Examine the Role of Visual Representations in Text 
Comprehension and Retention - Frank C. Keil: The Problem of Partial 
Understanding - Christopher N. Candlin/Jonathan Crichton: Emergent Themes 
and Research Challenges: Reconceptualising LSP. 

Margrethe Petersen is Associate Professor of English for Specific Purposes 
at Aarhus University. Her current research interests include the 
sociolinguistic aspects of the 'internationalised' university and academic 
knowledge communication.

Jan Engberg is Professor of Knowledge Communication at Aarhus University. 
His research interests include legal communication, genre analysis, 
translation and the cognitive basis for the communication of expertise. 



Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     Sociolinguistics
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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