Assessing EPAP lexical features: A corpus-based study

The features of specialised languages have been extensively described by scholars in the literature. Amongst them, Enrique Alcaraz’s work stands out as an exhaustive and comprehensive description of EPAP at all linguistic levels: lexical, syntactic, semantic and pragmatic. This research aims to prov...

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Main Authors: María José Marín, Camino Rea Rizzo
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Language:Catalan
Published: Universitat de València 2018-01-01
Series:Quaderns de Filologia: Estudis Lingüístics
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Online Access:https://turia.uv.es/index.php/qfilologia/article/view/11307
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description The features of specialised languages have been extensively described by scholars in the literature. Amongst them, Enrique Alcaraz’s work stands out as an exhaustive and comprehensive description of EPAP at all linguistic levels: lexical, syntactic, semantic and pragmatic. This research aims to provide a bottom-up assessment of his description on a lexical level through the implementation of corpus-based techniques on two specialised corpora of legal and telecommunications English. The results support Alcaraz’s portrayal as regards term usage, the relevance of sub-technical vocabulary, the peculiarities of Latin single and multi word terms in legal English and the significant presence and usage of abbreviations in telecommunications English.
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spelling doaj-art-1f288bb1d38b4e7980bfeb6662f2c64e2025-08-20T02:37:13ZcatUniversitat de ValènciaQuaderns de Filologia: Estudis Lingüístics1135-416X2444-14492018-01-01222210.7203/qf.22.11307Assessing EPAP lexical features: A corpus-based studyMaría José Marín0Camino Rea Rizzo1University of MurciaPolytechnic University of CartagenaThe features of specialised languages have been extensively described by scholars in the literature. Amongst them, Enrique Alcaraz’s work stands out as an exhaustive and comprehensive description of EPAP at all linguistic levels: lexical, syntactic, semantic and pragmatic. This research aims to provide a bottom-up assessment of his description on a lexical level through the implementation of corpus-based techniques on two specialised corpora of legal and telecommunications English. The results support Alcaraz’s portrayal as regards term usage, the relevance of sub-technical vocabulary, the peculiarities of Latin single and multi word terms in legal English and the significant presence and usage of abbreviations in telecommunications English.https://turia.uv.es/index.php/qfilologia/article/view/11307EPAPESPCorpus LinguisticsLegal EnglishTelecommunications English
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Assessing EPAP lexical features: A corpus-based study
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ESP
Corpus Linguistics
Legal English
Telecommunications English
title Assessing EPAP lexical features: A corpus-based study
title_full Assessing EPAP lexical features: A corpus-based study
title_fullStr Assessing EPAP lexical features: A corpus-based study
title_full_unstemmed Assessing EPAP lexical features: A corpus-based study
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topic EPAP
ESP
Corpus Linguistics
Legal English
Telecommunications English
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