Specialized Discourse
Linguistic Features and Changing Conventions
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Beschreibung
This book analyses the various features of specialized discourse in order to assess its degree of specificity and diversification, as compared to general language. Prior to any analysis of such traits, the notion of specialized discourse and its distinctive properties are clarified, also as compared to other features frequently occurring in specialized texts which cannot be considered distinctive. The presence of such properties are accounted for not only in linguistic but also in pragmatic terms since the approach is interpretative rather than merely descriptive. The complexity of this discourse calls for a multidimensional analysis, covering both lexis and morpho-syntax as well as textual patterning. Some lexical aspects, morphosyntactic features and textual genres are also examined from a diachronic perspective, thus showing how various conventions concerning specialized discourse have developed over the last few centuries.
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Maurizio Gotti
Themen in »Specialized Discourse«
Changing complexity of discourse Conventions diachronic per Discourse Diskursanalyse Fachsprache Features Funktionalismus (Linguistik) Geschichte 1600-2000 lexical and morphosyntactic features Linguistic Linguistic Features and Changing Conventions Pragmatic Perspective Specialized
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«...per gli studenti o gli studiosi è un ‘must’ perché presenta lo ‘stato dell’arte’ nella ricerca linguistica del linguaggio specialistico o ‘specialized discourse’.» (Angela Stucchi, L’Analisi linguistica e letteraria)
«Gotti’s volume is very detailed in each chapter and offers a clear overview of specialized discourse both from a synchronic and a diachronic perspective – which is one of the best features of the volume. It has the merit of efficiently emphasising the quantitative dimension of lexical, syntactic and textual features that makes them peculiar traits of SD, even though general language shares exactly the same features, but uses them less frequently. The book is accessible also to non-specialists and is a useful guide and reference book either in general terms and for what concerns the English SD.» (Elisa Perego, TESL-EJ, Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language)
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