Working with Specialized Language: A

Providing guidelines and practical advice, it enables LSP users to design, build and exploit corpus resources that meet their specialized language needs. Highly practical and accessible, the book includes exercises, glossary and an appendix describing relevant resources and corpus-analysis software. Working with Specialized Language is ideal for translators, technical writers and subject specialists who are interested in exploring the potential of a corpus-based approach to teaching and learning LSP.

List of figures

ix

Acknowledgements

xiv

Introduction

1

(1)

How to use this book

2

(1)

Outline

2

(5)

PART I Setting the scene

7

(36)

Introducing corpora and corpus analysis tools

9

(16)

What is a corpus?

9

(2)

Who uses corpora?

11

(1)

Are there different types of corpora?

11

(2)

Are there tools for investigating corpora?

13

(1)

Why use corpora to investigate language?

13

(7)

Key points

20

(1)

Further reading

21

(1)

Exercises

21

(4)

Introducing LSP

25

(18)

What is LSP?

25

(2)

Who uses LSP?

27

(1)

Why learn an LSP?

28

(3)

How can a corpus help with LSP acquisition?

31

(8)

Key points

39

(1)

Further reading

40

(1)

Exercise

40

(3)

PART II Corpus design, compilation and processing

43

(92)

Designing a special purpose corpus

45

(13)

Corpus size

45

(4)

Text extracts vs full texts

49

(1)

Number of texts

49

(1)

Medium

49

(1)

Subject

50

(1)

Text type

50

(1)

Authorship

51

(1)

Language

51

(1)

Publication date

52

(1)

Corpus design: an example

52

(1)

Key points

53

(2)

Further reading

55

(1)

Exercises

55

(3)

Compiling a special purpose corpus

58

(17)

Copyright and permissions

59

(2)

Electronic resources

61

(7)

Corpus compilation: an example

68

(5)

Key points

73

(1)

Further reading

73

(1)

Search engines and meta-search engines

73

(1)

Tutorials for effective web searching

73

(1)

Potential LSP resources for corpus building

74

(1)

Exercise

74

(1)

Markup and annotation

75

(17)

What is markup?

75

(8)

What is annotation?

83

(6)

Key points

89

(1)

Further reading

90

(1)

Addresses of tagsets discussed in this chapter

90

(1)

Exercises

91

(1)

Bilingual and multilingual corpora: pre-processing, alignment and exploitation

92

(17)

Bilingual and multilingual corpora

92

(1)

Why use a parallel corpus?

93

(1)

Who uses parallel corpora?

94

(1)

Creating your own parallel corpus

95

(5)

How does alignment work?

100

(3)

Using your parallel corpus

103

(4)

Key points

107

(1)

Further reading

107

(1)

Where to get information about corpus resources

108

(1)

Where to find out more about bilingual concordancers

108

(1)

Exercises

108

(1)

Introduction to basic corpus processing tools

109

(26)

Producing word lists

109

(11)

Concordances

120

(9)

Key points

129

(1)

Further reading

130

(1)

Concordancing software

130

(1)

Exercises

130

(5)

PART III Corpus-based applications in LSP

135

(90)

Building useful glossaries

137

(28)

What is a glossary?

137

(1)

Why do you need to produce a glossary?

138

(1)

What about dictionaries and comparable documents?

139

(1)

Traditional methods of producing a glossary

140

(3)

Practical terminology work

143

(18)

Storing your data

161

(1)

Summary of glossary compilation

162

(2)

Key points

164

(1)

Further reading

164

(1)

Exercise

164

(1)

Term extraction

165

(12)

Monolingual term extraction

166

(5)

Bilingual term extraction

171

(1)

Using term extraction techniques with basic corpus analysis tools

172

(1)

Key points

173

(1)

Further reading

174

(1)

Some products containing term extraction tools

174

(1)

Exercises

175

(2)

Using LSP corpora as a writing guide

177

(16)

Creating a small corpus

177

(1)

Writing science

178

(7)

Writing a product review

185

(6)

Key points

191

(1)

Further reading

192

(1)

Exercise

192

(1)

Using LSP corpora as a translation resource

193

(18)

Using a parallel corpus as a translation resource

193

(5)

Using a monolingual corpus as a translation resource

198

(11)

Key points

209

(1)

Further reading

209

(1)

Exercise

210

(1)

Other applications and future directions

211

(14)

Creating LSP learner corpora

211

(2)

Using LSP corpora to identify and study neologisms

213

(2)

Using corpora to investigate metaphor in LSP

215

(2)

Customizing tools to meet LSP needs

217

(3)

Key points

220

(1)

Further reading

221

(1)

Exercises

222

(3)

Appendix

225

(4)

Tools

225

(1)

Resources

226

(3)

Glossary

229

(5)

Bibliography

234

(5)

Index

239

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