By Elisabet Arnó Macià, Antonia Soler Cervera, Carmen Rueda Ramos

In the final years, we now have witnessed major advances in know-how, that have not just replaced our international but in addition turn into a part of glossy existence. and prefer the other element of our lives, our paintings within the box of Languages for particular reasons (LSP) has additionally been remodeled through expertise, specifically by way of pcs in our day-by-day projects as academics and researchers.

The objective of this quantity is to provide an summary of an abundant number of purposes of IT within the box of LSP. it truly is addressed to a large viewers that comes with LSP lecturers and researchers, even if the contents can also be appropriate to utilized linguists operating in different fields. This booklet comprises examine stories in addition to academic stories and suggestions, offered from various views and backgrounds (both geographical and cultural), all of that are theoretically grounded and with a transparent and sound cause. hence, the reader will discover a number of academic tasks and study experiences located in particular academic contexts and particularly geographical destinations. even if now not meant for generalization, they're beneficial technology-based academic suggestions that supply new perception and reflections that might support readers create their very own instruments and perform extra learn. as a result, the publication makes a speciality of critical issues that experience woke up the curiosity of LSP execs. In flip, this thematic choice has helped us set up the chapters into comparable sections masking the most components of study and perform within the box.

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Genres, registers, text-types, domains, and styles: Clarifying the concepts and navigating a path through the BNC jungle. Language Learning and Technology 5, Yl-ll. Lindemann, S. and A. Mauranen (2001). It's just real messy; The occurrence and function of just in a corpus of academic speech. English for Specific Purposes 20, 459-476. J. (2000). Collocation frameworks in medical research papers: A genre-based study. English for Specific Purposes 19, 63-86. Mauranen, A. (2001). Reflexive academic talk: Observations from MICASE.

Speakers make much greater use of visuals of all kinds than writers. In speech there is much greater stylistic homogeneity across disciplines than in, say, research paper writing. There are several factors that contribute to this lessening of disciplinary variation. "; "over here is the original data"); and a third is the fact that references to the work of others are not realized through the different conventions that separate broad disciplinary areas (such as the presence or absence of superscript numbers), but by talking about what people have done.

The use of 'we' in all the clauses would mean a situation shared by speaker and audience. On the contrary, in example (18) 'you' seems to contribute to a closer involvement of the audience with the real subject, the "foragers", and the situation; whereas 'they' creates a distance. 48 4. INTERACTION IN ACADEMIC SPOKEN ENGLISH DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS The results of this study have shown that in the MICASE there is no noticeable difference in the frequency of the use of T' and 'you', though T' is still more frequent than 'you'.

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