Corpora and academic writing
A contrastive analysis of research articles in biology and linguistics
- Author(s): Céline Poudat 1 and Peter Follette 2
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View Affiliations Hide AffiliationsAffiliations:1 Lexiques, Dictionnaires, Informatique, Université Paris 132 Bases, Corpus et Langages, Université Nice Sophia Antipolis
- Source: Corpus-Informed Research and Learning in ESP , pp 167-192
- Publication Date May 2012
Research articles represent a major form of academic discourse and are known to vary based on genre and discipline. Although numerous studies have been conducted to describe and explain these variations, few of them have used quantitative methods. However, text statistics is particularly well developed in France, and the methods and tools developed would be very useful for ESP and EAP teachers and corpus linguists. The present chapter offers an overview of the main methods that have been developed, and combines qualitative and text-statistics approaches to examine variation between the academic fields of biology and linguistics, two disciplines that differ widely with respect to their experimental approaches, methodology, and intellectual communities and history. Keywords: academic genres; corpus linguistics; text statistics
- Affiliations: 1: Lexiques, Dictionnaires, Informatique, Université Paris 13; 2: Bases, Corpus et Langages, Université Nice Sophia Antipolis
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