What can linguistic approaches bring to English for Specific Purposes?

Abstract

France) where he is currently coordinator of the first year Master's in Applied Foreign Languages (Mention LEA) and co-coordinator with Natalie Kübler of a second year Master's in Languages for Specific Purposes, Corpus Linguistics and Translation studies (Master 2 LSCT). He has taught and conducted research in interlinguistics, specialised translation, phraseology, systemic functional grammar and text linguistics.

Modal Markers as Potential Sources of Distortion in Translated Medical Abstracts

“…Thus, distortion in translation interferes with the communicative purpose of these texts, which can be defined as accurate and objective presentation of medical research results in order to facilitate their transfer into clinical practice. Besides certain translation errors, which are a rather obvious source of such distortions, biased translation of lexico-grammatical patterns (Gledhill & Kübler, 2016) was also previously determined to be a potential source of distortion in the interpretation of research results. This is particularly the case for structures containing modal markers because of their importance in specialized languages and the high degree of interpretation associated with their translation.…”

Post-Editing Neural MT in Medical LSP: Lexico-Grammatical Patterns and Distortion in the Communication of Specialized Knowledge

“…The focus of this paper is on the translation of lexico-grammatical patterns, i.e., "the basic building blocks" of languages for specific purposes (LSPs) [11] (p. 75). Composed of stable pivotal elements and a more variable albeit regular paradigm, these "chains of meaningful interlocking lexical and grammatical structures" can be extended and are non-linear, and have regular textual functions [11] (p. 79). An example of a typical lexico-grammatical pattern in technical language that functions as a warning would be "FAILURE TO + V [= comply with, follow, observe, etc.]…”

“…+ MAY/CAN + LEAD TO/RESULT IN + N [= death, fire, injury, property damage, etc.]" [11] (p. 78). Within the ongoing PhD project [8], various lexico-grammatical patterns used in Cochrane review abstracts for the communication of specialized medical knowledge have been identified.…”

Identifying and responding to learner needs at the medical faculty: the use of audio-visual specialised fiction (FASP)

“…It forms the basis for many of the pedagogical and language-acquisition theories that have developed over the years. The two principal applied-linguistic approaches to ESP are the concept-oriented approach and the context-oriented approach (Gledhill & Kübler, 2016). The concept-oriented approach concentrates on the technical language and linguistic structures employed within a specialist domain, for example through metaphor analysis (English, 1998), whereas the contextoriented approach considers the social or cultural context when analysing specialist language.…”