{"title":"An exploratory analysis of noun phrases in civil engineering writing","authors":"Margaux Guillerit","doi":"10.4000/asp.6272","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/asp.6272","url":null,"abstract":"Les etudes recentes en linguistique montrent que les ecrits universitaires se caracterisent par des syntagmes nominaux complexes. Cependant, peu d’etudes concernent la langue de specialite ; les rares etudes relatives aux textes en genie civil font etat de differences entre la langue des ingenieurs et des etudiants, ces derniers utilisant des phrases plus complexes que les ingenieurs. Toutefois, aucune de ces etudes ne s’interesse aux syntagmes nominaux. Dans cet article, nous cherchons donc a determiner en quoi les syntagmes nominaux dans les textes rediges par les etudiants different de ceux ecrits par les ingenieurs (en termes de frequence, de structure et de longueur), et si le registre joue un role dans l’utilisation des syntagmes nominaux. Notre article s’appuie sur un corpus de textes ecrits par des ingenieurs et des etudiants (comptes rendus et comptes rendus de laboratoire) qui a ete analyse selon les methodes et outils de la linguistique de corpus. Contre toute attente, les resultats montrent que la longueur et la structure des syntagmes nominaux sont similaires dans les textes des ingenieurs et des etudiants. De plus, le registre joue un role determinant dans l’utilisation des syntagmes nominaux parmi les registres etudiants.","PeriodicalId":37325,"journal":{"name":"ASp","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45499839","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Vijay Bhatia, Stephen Bremner (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Language and Professional Communication","authors":"Fanny Domenec","doi":"10.4000/ASP.6321","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/ASP.6321","url":null,"abstract":"Professional domains and discourses have become a fully-fledged field of study for many ESP researchers and GERAS members, following Michel Petit (2010) and Michel Van der Yeught’s (2016) focus on professional and disciplinary specialization. In this book, Vijay Bhatia and Stephen Bremner provide an overview of the field of language and professional communication, by giving the floor to scholars from various disciplines (English for specific purposes, discourse and genre analysis, business co...","PeriodicalId":37325,"journal":{"name":"ASp","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45370505","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Éditorial : De la scientificité de l'anglais de spécialité","authors":"A. Saber","doi":"10.4000/asp.5933","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/asp.5933","url":null,"abstract":"La publication en 2018 d’un article stimulant de Nathalie Caron et Caroline Rolland Diamond sur les fragilites du statut epistemologique de la « civilisation » en tant que secteur des etudes anglophones devrait nous conduire, puisque nous considerons l’anglais de specialite comme une branche a part entiere des etudes anglaises au sein du paysage universitaire francais, a soulever les memes questionnements au sujet de notre discipline. Le lecteur nous permettra de livrer, dans cet aparte limin...","PeriodicalId":37325,"journal":{"name":"ASp","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45562753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Retrieving the specialised substance from a corpus of professional discourse in the field of Records and Information Management","authors":"P. Millot","doi":"10.4000/asp.6031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/asp.6031","url":null,"abstract":"Cet article vise a approfondir notre connaissance des discours professionnels dans le domaine de la gestion de l’information et de la documentation, a partir d’un corpus specialise. Apres un bref resume de la longue tradition des travaux en analyse des discours professionnels, nous presentons une methode de compilation et d’analyse d’un corpus dans le domaine de la gestion de l’information, notamment dans le but d’identifier sa « matiere specialisee ». Cette matiere est mise en evidence par trois micro-analyses : celle du processus de specialisation des categories semantiques generales de l’anglais, celle de la coherence semantique, et celle de dimensions semantiques specifiques. Nos resultats montrent tout d’abord que la gestion de l’information peut etre consideree comme un registre specialise de l’anglais. Ils montrent ensuite que la comparaison d’une variete professionnelle avec l’usage general fournit une vue partielle du specialise-professionnel et qu’il convient d’envisager la creation de dimensions semantiques ad hoc.","PeriodicalId":37325,"journal":{"name":"ASp","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45698992","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Des « taches solaires » et des « vagues », au « cheval à bascule » et au « pendule » : que nous apprend l’étude des métaphores du cycle économique sur un siècle (1850-1950) ?","authors":"C. Resche","doi":"10.4000/asp.6013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/asp.6013","url":null,"abstract":"L’objet de cette etude est de montrer comment l’examen des metaphores utilisees par les specialistes d’un domaine peut aider le linguiste a mieux comprendre l’histoire des idees qui ont contribue a en forger la theorie. Les metaphores proposees, adoptees et discutees dans leurs ecrits par les theoriciens du cycle economique, en liaison avec les notions d’equilibre et de crise, illustrent les divers roles que peut jouer la metaphore aux niveaux heuristique, epistemologique, analytique et en termes de modelisation et d’argumentation. La terminologie du cycle economique, elle-meme metaphorique, sert de toile de fond a l’analyse, qui montre que la reflexion theorique sur le cycle economique emprunte aux deux grandes veines metaphoriques traditionnelles : elle est d’abord pensee selon les lois de la nature, puis celles de la physique. Les echanges intellectuels et scientifiques entre theoriciens sont pris en compte pour illustrer les diverses fonctions de la metaphore et la facon dont elle a nourri leurs debats theoriques.","PeriodicalId":37325,"journal":{"name":"ASp","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47463145","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Luporini, Antonella, 2019. Metaphor in Times of Economic Change. From global crisis to cryptocurrency. A corpus-assisted study","authors":"J. Humbley","doi":"10.4000/asp.6072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/asp.6072","url":null,"abstract":"It has been suggested that linguists – especially those interested in the language of finance and economics – should keep a close watch on the way metaphors evolve (Resche 2016). Readers of ASp will be well aware of the role metaphor plays in specialized discourse, a theme which has been aired in numerous articles and even some book reviews going back to the 1990s and beyond. A comparison of differing attitudes towards metaphors in financial discourse by A. Partington, published in ASp in 199...","PeriodicalId":37325,"journal":{"name":"ASp","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42914758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Explicit and implicit ethical issues in the reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: the example of the “tipping points” metaphor","authors":"Marie-Hélène Fries","doi":"10.4000/asp.5945","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/asp.5945","url":null,"abstract":"Le changement climatique est a la fois une cause de preoccupations (dans le monde anglophone et au-dela), et un large secteur de recherche situe au carrefour des sciences et technologies, de l’economie et de la politique, Il est lie a des controverses socio-scientifiques importantes, dans lesquelles les questions d’ethique jouent un role essentiel, d’un point de vue deontique aussi bien qu’epistemique. L’objectif de cet article est d’explorer les points de vue ethiques exprimes dans les rapports d’evaluation du Groupe International d’Etudes sur le Climat (GIEC), a la fois de facon explicite, a travers l’usage des mots « ethique », « morale » et de leurs derives, mais aussi de facon implicite, a travers l’utilisation des termes metaphoriques contenus dans les rapports du GIEC. L’accent est mis sur les termes metaphoriques fondes sur des metaphores constitutives des theories liees au changement climatique, Cette perspective est developpee, avec l’exemple des « points de bascule ».","PeriodicalId":37325,"journal":{"name":"ASp","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49246291","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Blogging, creativity and autonomy. An attempt to have one’s cake and eat it","authors":"Alison Bouhmid","doi":"10.4000/asp.6089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/asp.6089","url":null,"abstract":"This report describes an online EFL course for second-year students at Paul Valery University in Montpellier. Its main objective is to foster learner autonomy through creative writing on a blog. As the course is offered exclusively online, a virtual learning environment (VLE) is used (Moodle) to make course content available to students who are then expected to choose a blogging platform to set up and write their own blogs. The report thoroughly details course design and evaluation procedures...","PeriodicalId":37325,"journal":{"name":"ASp","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70420291","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A content-based approach using the subprime crisis as portrayed in The Big Short","authors":"Claire Heuillard","doi":"10.4000/asp.6107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/asp.6107","url":null,"abstract":"This report describes an ESP teaching module in financial English taught since the 2016-17 academic year at Pantheon-Assas University (Paris) in the third year of an economics and management Bachelor’s programme. Claire Heuillard approaches the subprime crisis through a film, The Big Short (McKay 2015), inspired from Michael Lewis’s bestseller, The Big Short – Inside the Doomsday Machine (Norton 2011), one of the best encapsulations of the latest bubble-and-crash episode in financial history....","PeriodicalId":37325,"journal":{"name":"ASp","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45827604","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}