Researching Specialized Languages

1. List of contributors; 2. Specialized languages: Corpora, meta-analyses and applications (by Bhatia, Vijay); 3. Section one. Research based on corpora; 4. The historical shift of scientific academic prose in English towards less explicit styles of expression: Writing without Verbs (by Biber, Douglas); 5. Heteroglossic (dis)engagement and the construal of the ideal readership: Dialogic spaces in academic texts (by Perez-Llantada Auria, Carmen); 6. Structure, content and functions of calls for conference abstracts (by Gesuato, Sara); 7. Summarizing findings: An all-pervasive move in open access biomedical research articles involves rephrasing strategies (by Jaime-Siso, Mercedes); 8. The use of adverbial hedges in EAP students' oral performance: A cross-language analysis (by Perez-Paredes, Pascual); 9. Integrating approaches to visual data commentary: An exploratory case study (by Sancho, Carmen); 10. Section two. Research based on meta-analysis and applications in LSP; 11. Some dichotomies in genre analysis for Languages for Specific Purposes (by Flowerdew, John); 12. English for legal purposes and domain-specific cultural awareness: The 'continental paradox', definition, causes and evolution (by Isani, Shaeda); 13. The Talking Cure: From Narrative to Academic Argument (by Lazar, Gillian Diane); 14. UrgentiAS, a lexical database for medical students in clinical placements: Architecture, use and evaluation (by Buyse, Kris); 15. Using natural language patterns for the development of ontologies (by Montiel-Ponsoda, Elena); 16. Notes on contributors; 17. Index