English for Special Purposes: Specialized Languages and Problems of Terminology

Nagy, Imola Katalin

doi:10.1515/ausp-2015-0018

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“…As set out in the preceding section, "restricted languages", "microlanguages" and "special languages" are some of the names employed to denote "the specific discourse used by professionals and specialists to communicate and transfer information and knowledge" (Mićić 2013, p. 217). In this sense, Sánchez Jiménez (2015) and Nagy (2014) enlarge the number of known denominations, thereby including new labels such as "specialised languages", "specialised communication", "technical English", "scientific English", "English for special or specific purposes-ESP", "English for Occupational Purposes", "Professional English" or, more recently, "Academic and Professional Languages". The above notwithstanding, this article opts for the use of the terms "specialised discourse", "specialised languages" and "domain-specific languages" DIACRÍTICA, Vol.…”

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“…In this connection, among all the proposals of classification that have been published to establish the idiosyncratic characteristics of specialised discourse, Gotti's (2011, p. 20) appears to be the most comprehensive and up to date. Indeed, this researcher does not concentrate exclusively "on the pragmatic criteria reflected on the various features of its varieties", which, on the contrary, can be seen in the categorizations provided by Varantola (1986), Nagy (2014) and Bennett (2015). Gotti primarily distinguishes three typologies of linguistic features within specialised discourse: lexical, syntactic and textual.…”

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O discurso especializado em artigos de investigação médica: Uma comparação linguística entre o inglês e o galego

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Due to the enormous development of science and technology in recent times, English has become the leading language for conveying specialised knowledge. Conversely, in Galicia, the study of specialised discourse has remained largely unexplored until the very end of the last century, when Galician achieved the status of co-official language within the Spanish State. This article presents an analytical and descriptive approach to the notion of specialised discourse with three objectives. First of all, it attempts to clarify the aforementioned concept, as well as its distinctive features, in order to identify potential differences and similarities in terms of how experts belonging to the English and Galician-speaking worlds understand and use specific-domain languages. Secondly, it aims to conduct a quantitative and qualitative corpus-based comparison of the most relevant morphosyntactic features in English and Galician specialised discourse, with a particular focus on the field of medical writing. Lastly, this article also intends to fill a significant gap in Galician linguistic studies, where research on specific-domain languages remains a pending issue. To attain these objectives, a corpus-based cross-linguistic comparison of English and Galician specialised discourse is carried out based on twenty-four research articles. By means of which, the most representative morphosyntactic characteristics of specialised texts are analysed, interpreted and discussed in depth for both languages. The results reveal that English and Galician domain-specific languages present far more similarities than might be expected at first, the most notable differences being those inherent to the specificity of each linguistic system.

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O discurso especializado em artigos de investigação médica: Uma comparação linguística entre o inglês e o galego

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“…Linking words expressing contradiction, explanation, and conclusion are unavoidable. Such linking words are the conjunctions (and, although, though, since, as), prepositions (despite, during) and adverbs (usually, meanwhile, firstly, secondly) [13].…”

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Google Translate Accuracy in Translating Specialized Language From English to Bahasa Indonesia:

Farahsani¹,

Rini²,

Jaya³

2021

Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Sustainable Innovation 2020–Social, Humanity, and Education (ICoSIHESS 2020)

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This research aims to discover the accuracy level of Google Translate in English -Bahasa Indonesia translation, especially in translating specialized language in mechanical engineering terms. This study belongs to descriptive qualitative research. The primary source of the data was the output translation texts of Google Translate. The sample texts were sentences taken from the book of the mechanical engineering field. The main concerns were on word and phrase levels. Since there were only two categorizations in accuracy research, the researchers divided the number into two. A text was said to be accurate if the accurate meanings were more than 50%. Conversely, it was inaccurate if the accurate meanings were less than 50%. The results revealed that in English -Bahasa Indonesia translation, Google Translate, especially in translating specialized language in mechanical engineering terms, was accurate for word translation, but inaccurate for phrases. This statement was based on the findings of accurate occurrence percentage in Google Translate translations, which were 70.73 % for the word level and 46.37% for the phrase level. The number for words was above 50 %, but it was the opposite for phrases. The inaccuracy was indicated by four inaccuracy indicators (omission, addition, different meaning and zero meaning). Moreover, several sentences translated by Google Translate were inaccurate. This research unveiled that Google Translate translated the sentences or paragraphs based on the sentence structure from the source text and the general meaning of the words or phrases.

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“…scientists, lawyers, politicians, etc., which is known among the teachers community as English for Specific Purposes (ESP) [3,4]. It has also been stated [4] that there are different variants of English for Specific Purposes, such as EST (English for Science and Technology), EOP (English for Occupational Purposes) and EAP (English for Academic Purposes). Widdowson [5] preferred to name it Professional and Academic English (PAE).…”

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“…In this case, the features of the language that manifest themselves in different professions are emphasized. It is known that learning a professional foreign language should focus on linguistic and communicative competence [4], be formed on the content and context of the curriculum [4,8] to enable the learners to use the professional foreign language, which they mastered, after completing the course of studies. To achieve this, it is important to learn the foreign language on the basis of real situations, i.e.…”

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Learning Medical English Language: Background for Successful Professional Education

Pushkin¹,

Pushkina²

2020

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The purpose of this research is to consider the most common difficulties faced by teachers of English for specific purposes from Chuvash University (Russia) in developing an English for Specific Purposes (ESP) course for medical students and in the learning process. The objectives of the research are the challenges to ESP teachers that might impact the quality of the teaching process and hence the learners' academic achievements unless these challenges are removed. The authors not only reveal the difficulties in the learning process but offer possible solutions to overcome them. The study showed that the most common problems interfering with the efficacy and the quality of learning are the lack of updated teaching materials, the lack of cooperation of ESP teachers with fellow teachers conducting classes in medical disciplines and a low level of general English of students majoring in medicine. The possible solutions to these problems based on the data collected during the survey are proposed. The results represented in five-step ranking mode are summarized in the form of two tables, the first representing the hierarchy of difficulties and the second showing the willingness of ESP teachers to take a special training course. The authors believe resolution of the problems may facilitate the transition of ESP for medical students to digital ecosystem.

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English for Special Purposes: Specialized Languages and Problems of Terminology

Abstract: of the main theories and debates upon the issue of specialized languages, make a comprehensive list of the names given to specialized language or in Klaudy's

Cited by 14 publications

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O discurso especializado em artigos de investigação médica: Uma comparação linguística entre o inglês e o galego

O discurso especializado em artigos de investigação médica: Uma comparação linguística entre o inglês e o galego

Google Translate Accuracy in Translating Specialized Language From English to Bahasa Indonesia:

Learning Medical English Language: Background for Successful Professional Education

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