An exploration of the phraseology of a large corpus of academic english: A new more teachable taxonomy of multiword expressions

• Autores: John Mckenny
• Localización: Computerised and Corpus-based Approaches to Phraseology: Monolingual and Multilingual Perspectives / coord. por Gloria Corpas Pastor, María Rosario Bautista Zambrana, Cristina Castillo Rodríguez, Isabel Durán Muñoz, Jorge Jesús Leiva Rojo, Gema María Lobillo Mora, Pablo Salvador Pérez Pérez, Miriam Seghiri, María Cristina Toledo Báez, Míriam Urbano Mendaña, Anna Zaretskaya, 2016, págs. 293-302
• Idioma: inglés
• Enlaces
  • Texto Completo Libro (pdf)
• Resumen

  • This paper grew out of a corpus project which set out to compile the British University in Dubai (BUiD) corpus of written academic English. This corpus is the only sizeable corpus of tertiary English writing from the Middle East. Masters dissertations submitted by BUiD students in the Education, Business and Engineering Faculties since 2004 were available in machine-readable form. These were collected as PDFs and converted into text only (ASCII) format. Arabic is the L1 of the large majority of the students; all students on submission agreed to their work being used for research. TEI metadata (headers, section divisions) were introduced to make Abstracts, Introductions, Literature Reviews, Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusion and References sections retrievable as more genetically focused sub-genres of the macro- genre, Dissertation (Paré et al., 2015). It is intended to carry out genre analysis on sub-corpora containing all the examples of the major sections of the dissertations (e.g. introductions, conclusions) possibly as optional student-led project work.