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Linguistic Insights
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Studies in Language and Communication
This book offers a thorough lexical description
of an English for Specific Purposes (ESP) variety,
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English for Architecture, by means of a self- ur
t
made corpus. As other knowledge communi- c
e
ties, Architecture practitioners have a distinc- hit
tive discourse and a linguistic identity of their c
r
A
own. Both are conveyed through specific lin- r
guistic realizations, and are of considerable o
interest in the field of ESP. The corpus used was h f
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designed for the purpose of describing and gli
n
analyzing the main lexical features of Architec- E
ture Discourse from three different perspec- of
tives: word-formation, loanword neology and n
o
semantic neology, which are the three main ti
p
foundations of lexis. In order to analyze all ma- ri
c
terials a database of almost three thousand es
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entries was produced, including a description
and classification of every word from the cor- al
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pus considered relevant for the analysis. Thanks xi
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to this methodology the lexical character of A L
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connection with the linguistic identity of its a
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from the University of Santiago de Compostela and
published several books on Architecture-related
topics. Her main research interest is ESP, more
specifically the language of Architecture. A Corpus-based Approach
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Acknowledgements
Firstly, I would like to thank my PhD supervisor, Dr. Ignacio M. Palacios
Martínez, for his guidance, support and advice since I started my PhD
studies.
I owe gratitude to several institutions besides the Universidade
de Santiago de Compostela, namely Universidade de Vigo, Manchester
University, Brown University, Essex University, Columbia University,
Domus Academy Milan, Colexio de Arquitectos de Galicia, Delegación
do Colexio de Arquitectos de A Coruña and Faculties of Architecture
and Arts of the Universidade do Porto. I am also grateful to the Instituto
Galego de Información, Ediciós do Castro, Museo Carlos Maside, Sem-
inario de Sargadelos and Laboratorio de Formas de Galicia.
I also would like to thank all those scholars, researchers and ar-
chitects who contributed to enlarging my knowledge on the topic thanks
to their comments, feedback, advice and lectures.
I would like show my gratitude to my beloved family, the corner-
stone of my life (my parents, my brothers, my nephew, my cousin, and
my grandparents) and to Ramón for his love and support.
I dedicate this work with my deepest gratitude to my mentor and
friend, Isaac Díaz Pardo, who had a lifelong devotion to architecture
and whose support and wisdom guided me during the completion of
this work and, above all, in life. His memory will stay with me forever.
Contents
1. Introduction ...............................................................................................9
2. Background of the study ...............................................................11
2.1 Professional and academic languages .....................................11
2.2 The language of Architecture: Some features .........................14
3. The study .........................................................................................21
3.1 Introduction .............................................................................21
3.2 General objectives ...................................................................21
3.3 Methodology ..............................................................................22
3.3.1 Why a corpus-driven approach?.. ......................................23
3.3.2 Which corpus should be used? ....................................24
3.3.3 A preliminary pilot corpus ..........................................25
3.3.4 Criteria for corpus design .............................................26
3.3.5 Collecting the data ......................................................28
3.3.6 Creating a database for corpus analysis ......................34
4. Main results .....................................................................................39
4.1 Word-formation analysis of the data .......................................39
4.1.1 Compounding ..............................................................39
4.1.2 Derivation ..................................................................123
4.1.3 Other word-formation processes ...............................147
4.2 Loanword neology ...................................................................161
4.2.1 Introduction ...............................................................161
4.2.2 Loanwords .................................................................164
4.2.3 French loanwords ......................................................170
4.2.4 Latin loanwords .........................................................181
4.2.5 Italian loanwords .......................................................183
4.2.6 Spanish loanwords ....................................................186
4.2.7 German loanwords ....................................................190
4.2.8 Greek loanwords .........................................................194
4.2.9 Japanese loanwords ...................................................194
4.2.10 Portuguese loanwords .................................................196
4.2.11 Other sources...............................................................198
4.3 Semantic neology ..................................................................208
4.3.1 Scientific metaphors ..................................................209
4.3.2 Social metaphors .......................................................215
4.3.3 Language and arts metaphors.....................................215
4.3.4 Visual metaphors .......................................................217
4.3.5 Other semantic changes ..............................................219
5. Conclusions ...................................................................................227
5.1 Introduction ...........................................................................227
5.2 Concluding remarks ..............................................................228
5.3 Closing remarks .......................................................................246
References .........................................................................................249
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