Conjunctive cohesion in English language EU documents – A corpus-based analysis and its implications

Trebits, Anna

doi:10.1016/j.esp.2009.04.004

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“…Varios profesores del Departamento de Contabilidad de la Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid diseñaron un CD interactivo con un doble objetivo, por un lado, acercar al alumnado al mundo profesional de los negocios y, por otro lado, motivarle hacia el estudio de la Contabilidad impartida en inglés, el idioma de los negocios y de la sociedad del conocimiento (Kankaanranta & Planken, 2010;Tietze, 2007;Trebits, 2009). Además de los videos grabados a varios directivos en distintos sectores empresariales con diferentes roles y estudios, se añadieron presentaciones, reportajes e informes de las empresas.…”

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Recursos multimedia para el aprendizaje de Contabilidad Financiera en los grados bilingües

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RESUMENEn el entorno educativo actual se hacen necesarias estrategias que mejoren la calidad de la docencia con la finalidad de aumentar el aprendizaje significativo del alumno. De hecho, una de las preocupaciones que tiene la universidad para adaptarse al Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior (EEES) es el distanciamiento entre la vida real y la teoría académica. En este artículo se presentan los resultados obtenidos, tras el diseño a través de un proyecto de innovación docente, sobre la utilización en las aulas de recursos multimedia (videos, tests, ejercicios prácticos relacionados, casos particulares, trabajos en equipo colaborativo, blog, lecturas…) realizados «ad hoc» por profesores del Departamento de Economía Financiera y Contabilidad II de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Como parte del estudio se ha realizado una encuesta a los alumnos de segundo curso de las asignaturas de «Financial Accounting II» del Grado de Administración y Dirección de Empresas (GADE) y de «Analytical Accounting» del Grado de Economía (GECO) donde expresaron su percepción y motivación al aprendizaje de la asignatura. Los resultados se han tratado estadísticamente obteniendo conclusiones muy interesantes. La mayoría de los alumnos han encontrado los videos útiles, satisfactorios y motivadores, aunque complejos. Por otro lado, se ha conseguido el objetivo

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“…Also, since they are mostly located in one city (i.e., Brussels), there are unlimited opportunities for face-to-face communication and discussions in English. Last but not least, English is used for specific purposes within the EU institutions (Jablonkai 2009;Trebits 2008Trebits , 2009), i.e., to legislate and conduct the daily EU business. Hence, there is a constant and an everincreasing need to use the language in order to enable the mutual understanding and successful functioning of the EU as whole.…”

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“…More narrowly, it is often associated with a specific usage of English within the EU institutions (Jenkins et al 2001, 13;Modiano 2006;crystal 1999, 15;Seidlhofer 2011, 17;Mollin 2006, 92;Trebits 2008Trebits , 2009Jablonkai 2009) that their numerous representatives, who predominantly come from mother tongue (hereafter L1) backgrounds other than English, use for conducting the day-to-day business of the EU. For the purposes of this study, whenever the term E-E is used, it should be understood as denoting a 'nativised' (i.e., nonstandard) form of English as used in EU institutional settings that is different from any standard model of the English language (hereafter SE).…”

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Attitudes towards Euro-English in a European Union Institution

Balič

2016

ELOPE

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This study deals with the attitudinal aspect of Euro-English, denoting a specific form of the English language that is frequently used within the institutions of the European Union. A questionnaire survey was conducted among 285 representatives who work for one of these institutions in Brussels. The respondents were asked to rate several deviations from Standard English, identified in a corpus-based analysis of EU texts, as either 'acceptable' or 'unacceptable' English usage. The findings reveal that the high acceptability rates of the proposed features among the non-native English-speaking respondents were mainly related to their proficiency in English and/or mother tongue interference. Moreover, since native speakers of English also accepted most of the proposed deviations, it follows that the participants did not seem to be aware of non-standardness in the test sentences. Euro-English must be regarded as EU jargon due to its technical, administrative or legal nature and not as a separate non-standard form of English for EU institutional settings.Keywords: European Union institution; Euro-English; corpus linguistics; deviations from Standard English; attitudes towards language; Eurojargon Odnos do evroangleščine v opazovani inštituciji Evropske unijePOvZETEK Ta raziskava analizira odnos 285 predstavnikov ene izmed inštitucij Evropske unije do t. i. evroangleščine kot oblike angleščine, kakršno pogosto uporabljajo v svojem večjezičnem delovnem okolju. Raziskava je bila usmerjena na ugotavljanje sprejemljivosti določenih jezikovnih vzorcev, ki odstopajo od modela standardne angleščine. Z analizo pisnih besedil Evropske unije v angleškem jeziku smo določili, katere izmed le-teh vključiti v testne stavke, s katerimi smo anketirance soočili. Analiza podatkov za nerojene govorce kaže na to, da obstaja določena povezanost med sprejetjem predlaganih odstopanj od standardne angleščine in znanjem ciljnega jezika in/ali prepletanjem maternih jezikov. Ker so tudi materni govorci sprejeli večino predlaganih značilnosti, ugotavljamo, da anketiranci evroangleščine ne dojemajo kot nestandardno obliko angleščine znotraj inštitucij Evropske unije, temveč kot EU žargon zaradi svoje tehnične, administrativne ali zakonodajne narave. Ključne

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“…It turned out that causal, clarifying and continuative conjunctions were significantly more frequent in EU English, whereas adversative and hypothetical conjunctions were more frequent in the BNC. Another follow-up study by the same author (Trebits 2009b) focused on the most frequent phrasal verbs in EU English and found that just as academic English, EU English uses considerably fewer phrasal verbs as compared to fiction or news writing or spoken English and showed that polysemous phrasal verbs in EU English were used in significantly fewer senses than in English in general. Moreover, the last two studies provided sample tasks exemplifying how a corpus of EU English could be used to design data-driven pedagogic material.…”

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“…The rigidity of the discourse is to a large extent concerned with standardisation, rituals and formulaicity (Biel, Engberg 2013), as pointed out by several researchers. Studies by Trebits (2008Trebits ( , 2009aTrebits ( , 2009b are worth a closer look. In one of them (Trebits 2008), the scholar was mostly interested in the pedagogical aspects of EU English.…”

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ES reglamentai: leksinių samplaikų vertimo iš anglų į lietuvių kalbą tendencijos

Noreika¹,

Šeškauskienė²

2017

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Based on the theoretical framework of lexical bundle research developed by and on Sinclair's (1991) observations on the compositionality of meaning and delexicalisation of formulaic language, the present study analyses four-word lexical bundles found in English EU legal discourse, focusing on their structural and semantic properties and tendencies of their translation into Lithuanian. The study examines a selection of 43 lexical bundles with a total of 791 unique instances in the corpus, extracted from a self-designed 59,579-word corpus representing EU legal English comprised of five regulations on health claims and food labelling. The results show that lexical bundles can be rendered into Lithuanian as single lexical or function words, phrases, dependent clauses, through the grammatical category of case, or omitted altogether. The length of the translated bundles suggests that there is a tendency to choose a shorter way of rendering them into Lithuanian. High variability of the translations of some lexical bundles points to a lack of their stability in Lithuanian, which might be due to a number of reasons, including a lack of agreement among translators and a much shorter tradition of legal translation into Lithuanian.

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Conjunctive cohesion in English language EU documents – A corpus-based analysis and its implications

Cited by 31 publications

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Recursos multimedia para el aprendizaje de Contabilidad Financiera en los grados bilingües

Recursos multimedia para el aprendizaje de Contabilidad Financiera en los grados bilingües

Attitudes towards Euro-English in a European Union Institution

ES reglamentai: leksinių samplaikų vertimo iš anglų į lietuvių kalbą tendencijos

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