24.2850, Books: Biomedical English: Verdaguer, Laso, Salazar (Eds)

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From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Biomedical English: Verdaguer, Laso, Salazar (Eds)

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Title: Biomedical English 
Subtitle: A corpus-based approach 
Series Title: Studies in Corpus Linguistics 56  

Publication Year: 2013 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: http://benjamins.com/catalog/scl.56 


Editor: Isabel Verdaguer
Editor: Natalia Judith Laso
Editor: Danica Salazar

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Abstract:

The corpus-based studies in this volume explore biomedical research writing in
English from a variety of perspectives. The articles in this collection delve
into the lexicographic issues involved in building an electronic database of
collocations and lexical bundles, offer insight on the teaching and learning
of prototypical multiword units of meaning in biomedical discourse, and view
written scientific English through the lens of such diverse fields as
phraseology, metaphor, gender and discourse analysis. The research presented
in this book forms the theoretical and methodological foundation of SciE-Lex,
a lexical database of collocations and prefabricated expressions designed to
help scientists write scientific papers in English accurately. The concluding
chapter on FrameNet addresses frame semantics, whose application to the
cross-linguistic study of scientific language will open new and promising
avenues of research in the study of specialized languages.
 



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

Subject Language(s): English (eng)


Written In: English  (eng)

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