IATEXT: Linguistic Variation and Change

Affiliated Research areas

• Texts and Concepts

Scientific Areas

• Not available

Keywords

• ESP
• History of English
• lexicography and lexicology
• discourse analysis
• language codification

Summary

- Lexicography, Lexicology and Translation: Issues related to lexicography, lexicology and translation will be covered in this line.
- Discourse analysis: This line of research encompasses the linguistic study of text within a wide variety of theoretical and methodological frameworks, applicable to both early and contemporary texts, in which a relationship of mutual determination between the text and its surrounding environment is defended, as well as the possibility of accommodating multiple levels of analysis, above and below the level of the sentence.
- English language history: Under this name we group together works on the study of English texts written from the Middle Ages to the 19th century. The questions we address in these papers deal with the use and treatment of punctuation as well as textual segmentation strategies in English texts; the different English treatises on rhetoric and their application (ars punctuandi, ars notaria, ars praedicandi, etc. ); the recovery and establishment of English manuscript texts - mainly scientific and non-literary texts in general - through the production of editions; lexical questions of the English language; the production of dictionaries, grammars and codifying manuals of the English and Spanish languages throughout history as well as their application to teaching.
- The scientific language: evolución histórica y características: This line of research covers historical-linguistic pieces of research on scientific works produced between the fourteenth and eighteenth centuries. The different studies will focus mainly on English as a scientific language, with special emphasis on its characteristics, functionality and lexical composition; the use, suitability and limitations of the specialised terminology used in different medical disciplines, both from a synchronic and diachronic point of view; the (meta)linguistic strategies that contribute to the adequate expression of the accumulated theoretical and practical knowledge; as well as the paratextual elements (glosses, marginalia, additional comments, etc.) that can clarify, complement or amend the textual content. ) which can clarify, complement or amend the textual content.