[Corpora-List] Summary of responses: Sublanguage/controlled language

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Dear all, 
 
two weeks ago, I posted a a query dealing with sublanguages and 
controlled languages. 
 
First of all, I'd like to thank Anthony Weaber, L. Carmichael, Joel 
Kuipersm K.B. Cohem¡n, Antoinette Renouf, Gregor Erbach, Ruslan Mitkov, 
Stephen Johnson and Marcial Terrádez for their responses. 
 
The difference and limit between sublanguage and controlled language is 
not clear in some cases, although some resesearchers believe that 
weather reports may be a a controlled language, most of them agree in 
considering it a sublanguage. But there is a strong emphasis in the 
terms discourse, genre, style in relation to them.  
 
It's important to mention that sublanguages and controlled languages 
are not mutually exclusive. I think that a controlled language could be 
better dedigned from a sublanguage, due to the closure it shows in its 
linguistic features. 
 
However, I think that the CL is defined for a special purpose as to 
write aeronautic reports (for Example AECMA), but sublanguages are a 
natural subset of the language. They do not need to be defined. So for 
me this is the most important difference. For this reason weather 
reports are a sublaguage not a CL. 
 
This is a summary of the sources recommeded: 
 
-"Sociolinguistic perspectives on register" edited by Biber, The papers 
in that volume discuss the boundaries for the dialect, register, genre, 
style, etc terms as well as how they linguistically manifest.
- `Explorations in Corpus Linguistics', by Nelleke Oostdijk1998, 
(Rodopi).
-	Kittredge, R. 2003. Sublanguages and Controlled Languages., In 
Mitkov, R. (Ed) The Oxford Handbook of Computational 
Linguistiucs,Oxford University Press.
	

Victoria López