Evidence-based LSP

Contents: John Sinclair: Language and computing, past and present - Joanna Channell: The other side of LSP fence: Commercial language consultancy and research - Federica Scarpa: Using an Italian diachronic corpus for investigating the «core» patterns of the language of science - Maria Teresa Musacchio: The distribution of information in LSP translation. A corpus study of Italian - Peter H. Ragan: Cross-cultural communication in aviation - Chris Handy/Khurshid Ahmad: Indexer variability in specialist domains - Øivin Andersen: Deverbal nouns as hybrids: Some textual aspects - Robert Wilkinson: Citation behaviour in psychology: Acquiring the domain culture - Merja Koskela: Functions of references in philosophical research articles - Kjersti Fløttum: Traces of others in research articles: The citation cluster - Trine Dahl: Accomodating the reader: Metatext in research articles. A report from the KIAP project - Tiina Männikkö: The presentation of series of events in academic and popularised articles in the field of history - Johan Myking: Dichotomies: Impossible and indispensable - Christer Laurén: The interdependence of LSP text and literary text - Heribert Picht: Konversion zwischen verschiedenen semiotischen Repräsentationsformen für Gegenstände und Begriffe - Nina Pilke: Thematic variation in academic seminars - student discussions of concepts and terms - Klaus-Dieter Baumann: A communicative-cognitive approach to emotion in LSP communication - Michael Wittwer: Emotion and translation: Using the example of popularising medical texts in paediatrics - Guadalupe Aguado de Cea/Inmaculada Álvarez de Mon y Rego: Cultural aspects in the translation of texts in the domain of information technology - Giuditta Caliendo: Intercultural traits in legal translation - Antia Bassey/Yaya Mahamadou/Tioguem Tamdjo: Terminology, knowledge management and veterinary anthropology - Giuseppina Cortese: LSP: Multilingual deficiency, multicultural ambiguity - Marta Chromá: A Czech-English law

The Editors: Khurshid Ahmad is Professor of Computer Science at Trinity College, Dublin (formerly Head of the Department of Computing, University of Surrey). His research interests include: Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks, Terminology & Ontology, Cross-modal interactions (image-text and text-number interaction), Grid-based financial modelling and sentiment analysis, Multilingual text processing (Arabic, Chinese, Celtic languages), Video annotation and surveillance.
Margaret Rogers is Professor of Translation and Terminology Studies and Director of the Centre for Translation Studies at the University of Surrey. Her research interests include: computerised terminography, terminology and specialist translation, translator education and pedagogy, corpus linguistics and terminology, text linguistics including FSP in relation to specialist translation.