The vocabulary of agriculture semi-popularization articles in English: A corpus-based study

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Muñoz, Verónica Lilian
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2015
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Scientific communication can be represented as a continuum with the research article, addressed to specialized researchers, at one end of the spectrum, and with the popularization article, addressed to lay readers, at the other. In between there exists a distinct genre, the semi-popularization article, which has not received much attention in the English literature. As a contribution to the field, this paper describes the vocabulary of a corpus of 700 agriculture semi-popularization articles in English. The analysis was carried out in two stages that combined quantitative and qualitative methodology: a lexical description of the corpus and the analysis of high-frequency words. The lexical analysis revealed high lexical variation in the corpus and narrow word range. Academic words provided a lower coverage (6%) than that usually reported for research articles (10-12%), and a higher coverage than that reported for newspapers (4%). The analysis of high-frequency words showed that many of these words, including general and academic words, were closely associated with the discipline of agriculture, and therefore represented the technical vocabulary of the texts.
Fil: Muñoz, Verónica Lilian. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto. Facultad de Ciencias Humanas; Argentina
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv The vocabulary of agriculture semi-popularization articles in English: A corpus-based study
title The vocabulary of agriculture semi-popularization articles in English: A corpus-based study
spellingShingle The vocabulary of agriculture semi-popularization articles in English: A corpus-based study
Muñoz, Verónica Lilian
AGRICULTURE
SEMI-POPULARIZATION ARTICLE
TECHNICAL AND NON-TECHNICAL VOCABULARY
title_short The vocabulary of agriculture semi-popularization articles in English: A corpus-based study
title_full The vocabulary of agriculture semi-popularization articles in English: A corpus-based study
title_fullStr The vocabulary of agriculture semi-popularization articles in English: A corpus-based study
title_full_unstemmed The vocabulary of agriculture semi-popularization articles in English: A corpus-based study
title_sort The vocabulary of agriculture semi-popularization articles in English: A corpus-based study
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Muñoz, Verónica Lilian
author Muñoz, Verónica Lilian
author_facet Muñoz, Verónica Lilian
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SEMI-POPULARIZATION ARTICLE
TECHNICAL AND NON-TECHNICAL VOCABULARY
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SEMI-POPULARIZATION ARTICLE
TECHNICAL AND NON-TECHNICAL VOCABULARY
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dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv Scientific communication can be represented as a continuum with the research article, addressed to specialized researchers, at one end of the spectrum, and with the popularization article, addressed to lay readers, at the other. In between there exists a distinct genre, the semi-popularization article, which has not received much attention in the English literature. As a contribution to the field, this paper describes the vocabulary of a corpus of 700 agriculture semi-popularization articles in English. The analysis was carried out in two stages that combined quantitative and qualitative methodology: a lexical description of the corpus and the analysis of high-frequency words. The lexical analysis revealed high lexical variation in the corpus and narrow word range. Academic words provided a lower coverage (6%) than that usually reported for research articles (10-12%), and a higher coverage than that reported for newspapers (4%). The analysis of high-frequency words showed that many of these words, including general and academic words, were closely associated with the discipline of agriculture, and therefore represented the technical vocabulary of the texts.
Fil: Muñoz, Verónica Lilian. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto. Facultad de Ciencias Humanas; Argentina
description Scientific communication can be represented as a continuum with the research article, addressed to specialized researchers, at one end of the spectrum, and with the popularization article, addressed to lay readers, at the other. In between there exists a distinct genre, the semi-popularization article, which has not received much attention in the English literature. As a contribution to the field, this paper describes the vocabulary of a corpus of 700 agriculture semi-popularization articles in English. The analysis was carried out in two stages that combined quantitative and qualitative methodology: a lexical description of the corpus and the analysis of high-frequency words. The lexical analysis revealed high lexical variation in the corpus and narrow word range. Academic words provided a lower coverage (6%) than that usually reported for research articles (10-12%), and a higher coverage than that reported for newspapers (4%). The analysis of high-frequency words showed that many of these words, including general and academic words, were closely associated with the discipline of agriculture, and therefore represented the technical vocabulary of the texts.
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