Researching Specialized Languages -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- List of contributors -- Specialized languages -- References -- Section one. Research based on corpora -- The historical shift of scientific academic prose in English towards less explicit styles of expression -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Corpus and grammatical features used for the analysis -- 3. Structural elaboration and compression in academic writing -- 4. Explicit and implicit meaning in academic writing -- 5. Summary and pedagogical implications -- References -- Heteroglossic (dis)engagement and the construal of the ideal readership -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Corpus and methodology -- 3. Results -- 4. Discussion and implications -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Structure, content and functions of calls for conference abstracts -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data -- 3. Approach: Identification of moves -- 3.1 The rationale for the genre -- 3.2 Informative moves -- 3.3 Regulatory moves -- 3.4 Double moves -- 4. Findings -- 5. Discussion -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Summarizing findings -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The need for genre flexibility: The case of biology and related life and health sciences -- 3. How do scientists select, read and write articles today? -- 4. Methods -- 4.1 Interviews with consultants: Procedure -- 4.2 Results of the interviews -- 4.3 Corpus selection and approach to the analysis -- 5. Results and interpretations of findings -- 5.1 Plos biology -- 5.2 Biology of reproduction -- 6. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Appendix: Articles in the corpus -- Plos Biology -- Biology of Reproduction -- The use of adverbial hedges in EAP students' oral performance -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The scope of hedging in corpus-based research -- 3. Hedging, the LGSWE and the Multidimensional Analysis-related research tradition.

4. Methodology -- 5. Results -- 6. Discussion and conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Integrating approaches to visual data commentary -- 1. Perspectives, research aims and antecedents in the study of graphic literacy -- 2. The study: Context and methodology -- 3. Findings -- 4. Final remarks: A critical systemic teaching of graph commentary in ESP contexts -- Continuum of data commentary choices -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Appendix -- Section two. Research based on meta-analysis and applications in LSP -- Some dichotomies in genre analysis for Languages for Specific Purposes -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Dichotomy 1: Individual genres vs. genre networks -- 3. Dichotomy 2: Written vs. spoken genres -- 4. Dichotomy 3: Macro vs. micro levels of analysis -- 5. Dichotomy 4: Move structure vs. lexico-grammar -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- English for legal purposes and domain-specific cultural awareness -- 1. Legal culture -- 2. Identifying the Continental paradox -- 3. Some ELP didactic considerations -- 4. Creation of an ersatz legal culture: Cognitive processes -- 5. Sustaining the Continental paradox: Absence of counter discourse -- 5.1 Continental cinematic legal thrillers -- 5.2 Role of law professionals -- 5.3 Law school academic culture -- 5.4 ELP didactics -- 6. Conclusion: Winds of change? -- References -- Filmography -- Webliography -- The Talking Cure -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A story from the university chalk-face -- 2.1 Orientation -- 2.2 Complication -- 2.3 Evaluation -- 2.4 Towards a resolution -- 3. Benefits of using oral narratives -- 3.1 Telling the story to the academic writing tutor -- 3.2 Triangulation -- 3.3 Writing a draft of the narrative and annotating it -- 3.4 Providing models for analysis and discussion -- 4. Further complications -- 5. Coda -- Acknowledgements -- References.

UrgentiAS, a lexical database for medical students in clinical placements -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Learners -- 3. Linguistic and educational context -- 4. Lexicographic data, linguistic structures and their didactic function -- 5. Corpus -- 6. Corpus analysis -- 7. Evaluation -- 8. Conclusion -- References -- Appendixes -- Using natural language patterns for the development of ontologies -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Identifying conceptual relations by means of linguistic patterns -- 3. Lexico-syntactic patterns in Knowledge Engineering -- 3.1 Difficulties of a natural language approach -- 4. Strategies in the discovery of LSPs -- 5.1 The challenge of matching LSPs and ODPs -- 6. Lexico-syntactic patterns for the subclass of and the part-whole relations -- 7. Potential applications of the LSPs repository to ESP/EAP -- 8. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Appendix -- Notes on contributors -- Index.