Linguistic and Translation Studies in Scientific Communication

The Editors: Maria-Lluisa Gea-Valor, Isabel García-Izquierdo and Maria-José Esteve are lecturers in English Language, Linguistics and Translation at Universitat Jaume I (Castelló, Spain). Their main research interests include academic and evaluative genres, multilingual analysis of genres in translation, and historical lexicography. They have published a number of articles, and have also edited several volumes, in their respective fields of interest.

Contents: Maria-Lluisa Gea-Valor/Isabel García-Izquierdo/Maria-José Esteve: Introduction - Martin Hewings: 'Boffins Create «Supermouse»': The Role of the Popular Press in Creating the Public Image of Scientists and their Work - Françoise Salager-Meyer: Academic Book Reviews and the Construction of Scientific Knowledge (1890-2005) - Luz Gil-Salom/Carmen Soler-Monreal: Appraisal Resources in Scientific Research Article Discussions - Concepción Orna-Montesinos: Hyponymy Relations in Construction Textbooks: A Corpus-Based Analysis - Nuria Edo: The Creation of an Active, Corpus-Based Dictionary on Industrial Ceramics from Specialised Lexicography - Inés Lareo: New Trends Exploring the Language of Science: The Corpus of English Texts on Astronomy (CETA) and its Tool (CCT) in the Context of the Coruña Corpus - Gonzalo Camina: New Words for New Ideas: Noun Formation in the Corpus of English Texts on Astronomy - Estefanía Sánchez Barreiro: Adjunctive and Disjunctive Lists in Modern English Scientific Discourse - Tomás Conde: Tacit Technique on the Evaluation of Technical Texts - Pilar Ordóñes López: The GENTT Corpus of Specialised Genres: A Valuable Tool for Professional Translators - Francisca Suau-Jiménez: Metadiscursive Elements in the Translation of Scientific Texts - Olga Torres-Hostench/José Rramón Biau Gil/Pilar Cid Leal/Adrià Martin Mor/Bartolomé Mesa-Lao/Mariana Orozco/Pilar Sánchez-Gijón: TRACE: Measuring the Impact of CAT Tools on Translated Texts - Juan José Martínez-Sierra: Science and Technology on the Screen: The Translation of Documentaries - María Rosario Bautista Zambrana: Ontologies for Scientific-Technical Translation.

"This is a welcomed book on scientific communication and translation. [...] The book offers teachers and students of translation a wide panorama of research in scientific communication." (Janine Pimentel, Fachsprache 2013/1-2)

«This is a welcomed book on scientific communication and translation. [...] The book offers teachers and students of translation a wide panorama of research in scientific communication.» (Janine Pimentel, Fachsprache 2013/1-2)