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Title Academic and professional discourse genres in Spanish / edited by Giovanni Parodi
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 255 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Series Studies in corpus linguistics, 1388-0373 ; v. 40
Studies in corpus linguistics ; v. 40
Contents Discourse genres, academic and professional discourses: the book and its contents / Giovanni Parodi -- Written discourse genres: towards an integral conception from a sociocognitive perspective / Giovanni Parodi -- Discourse genres in the PUCV-2006 academic and professional corpus of Spanish: criteria, definitions, and examples / Giovanni Parodi, Romualdo Ibáñez and René Venegas -- Academic and professional genres: variations across disciplines / Giovanni Parodi -- University academic genres: a miscellaneous discourse / Giovanni Parodi -- Multi-dimensional analysis an academic corpus in Spanish / René Venegas -- Automatic text classification of disciplinary texts / René Venegas -- Rhetorical organisation of textbooks: a "colony-in-loops"? /Giovanni Parodi -- The textbook genre and its rhetorical organisation in four scientific disciplines: between abstraction and concreteness / Giovanni Parodi -- The disciplinary text genre as a means for accessing disciplinary knowledge: a study from genre analysis perspective / Romualdo ibáñez -- Academic discourse comprehension in Spanish and English: accessing disciplinary domains / Romualdo Ibáñez -- Corollary: a critical synopsis of this book and some prospects for future challenges / Giovanni Parodi
Summary This volume offers a description and a deep examination of discourse genres across four disciplines (Psychology, Social Work, Industrial Chemistry, and Construction Engineering), in academic and professional settings. The study is based on one of the largest available corpus on disciplinary written discourse in Spanish (PUCV-2006 Corpus of Spanish containing almost 60 million words). Twelve chapters range from the theoretical guiding principles of the research in terms of genre conception, the detailed description of each corpus (academic and professional), computational analysis from multi-d
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Spanish language -- Discourse analysis
Spanish language -- Spoken Spanish
Spanish language -- Variation
Discourse markers.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Spanish.
Discourse markers
Spanish language -- Discourse analysis
Spanish language -- Spoken Spanish
Spanish language -- Variation
Form Electronic book
Author Parodi, Giovanni
LC no. 2010004884
ISBN 9789027288257
9027288259
9027223149
9789027223142
1281042544
9781281042545
9786613773531
6613773530