Assessing EPAP lexical features: A corpus-based study

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  • María José Marín University of Murcia
  • Camino Rea Rizzo Polytechnic University of Cartagena

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https://doi.org/10.7203/qf.22.11307

Keywords:

EPAP, ESP, Corpus Linguistics, Legal English, Telecommunications English

Abstract

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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María José Marín, University of Murcia

Department of Translation and Interpreting

Camino Rea Rizzo, Polytechnic University of Cartagena

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Published

2018-01-07

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Marín, M. J., & Rea Rizzo, C. (2018). Assessing EPAP lexical features: A corpus-based study. Quaderns De Filologia - Estudis Lingüístics, 22(22), 165–186. https://doi.org/10.7203/qf.22.11307
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Vol. 22 (2017): Words, Corpus and Back to Words

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