Lexical Description of English for Architecture
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- ISBN 9783034316026
- Weight: 400g
- Dimensions: 150 x 225mm
- Publication Date: 29 Jun 2015
- Publisher: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
- Publication City/Country: CH
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book offers a thorough lexical description of an English for Specific Purposes (ESP) variety, English for Architecture, by means of a selfmade corpus. As other knowledge communities, Architecture practitioners have a distinctive discourse and a linguistic identity of their own. Both are conveyed through specific linguistic realizations, and are of considerable interest in the field of ESP. The corpus used was designed for the purpose of describing and analyzing the main lexical features of Architecture Discourse from three different perspectives: word-formation, loanword neology and semantic neology, which are the three main foundations of lexis. In order to analyze all materials a database of almost three thousand entries was produced, including a description and classification of every word from the corpus considered relevant for the analysis. Thanks to this methodology the lexical character of Architecture language is ultimately revealed in connection with the linguistic identity of its practitioners.
Begoña Soneira works as project manager in International Relations, University of Santiago de Compostela. She holds a PhD in English language from the University of Santiago de Compostela and published several books on Architecture-related topics. Her main research interest is ESP, more specifically the language of Architecture.
