Name: Multiple Voices in Academic and Professional Discourse
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Multiple Voices in Academic and Professional Discourse

Current Issues in Specialised Language Research, Teaching and New Technologies

Edited By: Sergio Maruenda Bataller

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This book provides a global view of interdisciplinary research and innovative proposals in teaching specialized languages for the sciences and other professions. Chapters cover discourse analysis, specialized translation, terminology, and ICT.

The demands of today’s society for greater specialization have brought about a profound transformation in the humanities, which are not immune to the competitive pressure…

The demands of today’s society for greater specialization have brought about a profound transformation in the humanities, which are not immune to the competitive pressure to meet new challenges that are present in other sectors. Thus, lecturers and researchers in modern languages and applied linguistics departments have made great efforts to design syllabi and materials more attuned to the competences and requirements of potential working environments. At the same time, linguists have attempted to apply their expertise in wider areas, creating research institutes that focus on applying language and linguistics in different contexts and offering linguistic services to society as a whole.

This book attempts to provide a global view of the multiple voices involved in interdisciplinary research and innovative proposals in teaching specialized languages while offering contributions that attempt to fill the demands of a varied scope of disciplines such as the sciences, professions, or educational settings. The chapters in this book are made up of current research on these themes: discourse analysis in academic and professional genres, specialized translation, lexicology and terminology, and ICT research and teaching of specialized languages.

Sergio Maruenda-Bataller is Assistant Lecturer at the Department of English and German Studies at the University of Valencia, Spain. His research interests are in Social and Cognitive Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis (semantic and discourse prosodies), ICT in English language teaching and translation. He has recently published articles on the implementation of ICT in Higher Education, gender and meaning negotiation and an introduction to teaching translation.

Begoña Clavel-Arroitia is also Assistant Lecturer at the Department of English and German Studies at the University of Valencia, Spain. Her research interests include Second Language Acquisition, the teaching of English as a foreign language, Corpus Linguistics and the implementation of new technologies in the classroom. She has recently published articles on the design and exploitation of ICT in higher education, competence teaching and evaluation in tertiary education and Corpus Linguistics.

Dinka Acevedo, Amparo Alcina, Isabel Alonso, Brisa Gómez Ángel, Irina Argüelles, Begoña Clavel Arroitia, Rosa María Baldó, Elena Baynat, Ingrid Cáceres, María Carbonell, Juan Manuel Colsa, Cristina Vela Delfa, María Alcantud Díaz, Rosana Dolón, Raquel Hidalgo Downing, Isabel Durán, Nicolás Estévez, Ana Fernández-Pampillón, Miguel Fuster, Carolina Girón García, Luz Gil-Salom, Rosa Giménez, Ana Gimeno-Sanz, Virginia González, Isabel Jiménez Gutiérrez, Lidia Taillefer Haya, Francisco Miguel Ivorra, Nicolás Pino James, M. Lynne LaMantia, Dolores Olvera Lobo, Covadonga López, Hortensia López, Mercedes López, Rosa Muñoz Luna, Valentina Marta, Tanagua Barceló Martínez, Nuria Edo Marzá, María Matesanz, Elena de Miguel, Elvira Montañés, Raúl Montero, Hang Ferrer Mora, Teresa Morell, María Muñoz, Isabel Negro, Goretti Zaragoza Ninet, Françoise Olmo, Gina Oxbrow, Verónica Pastor, Julia Lobato Patricio, Ana Belén Peñuelas, Juan Antonio Rico, Cesáreo Calvo Rigual, Bryan Robinson, Ferrán Robles Sabater, Elena Sánchez, Soraya García Sánchez, Martin Simonson, Tamara Varela, Maria Vázquez, Blanca Vitalaru, Igone Zabala, José Santaemilia, Sergio Maruenda Bataller, Marián Alesón