Nouns in research articles: technical and academic vocabulary from a corpus linguistics perspective

Authors

  • Monique Vieira Miranda Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brasil.
  • Aparecida de Araújo Oliveira Universidade Federal de Viçosa (UFV), Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brasil.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5216/sig.v28i2.35620

Keywords:

academic vocabulary, technical vocabulary, nouns, corpus.

Abstract

We analyzed the 30 most frequent nouns in a mixed corpus of research articles from different areas of knowledge, using tools of Corpus Linguistics. Our goal was  to  classify  these  items  as  part  of  the  categories:  academic  vocabulary, technical vocabulary or general use vocabulary. We carried out a non-automatic semantic analysis of 35,320 concordance lines – the number corresponding to the sum of total occurrences in context for each noun – in order to obtain their most frequent meanings. We concluded that the number of academic lexemes was higher in the mixed corpus than in the individual subcorpora of specific areas,  which  presented  mainly  technical  terms  among  their  most  frequent nouns.

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Published

2016-11-23

How to Cite

MIRANDA, M. V.; OLIVEIRA, A. de A. Nouns in research articles: technical and academic vocabulary from a corpus linguistics perspective. Signótica, Goiânia, v. 28, n. 2, p. 509–532, 2016. DOI: 10.5216/sig.v28i2.35620. Disponível em: https://revistas.ufg.br/sig/article/view/35620. Acesso em: 17 jul. 2024.

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Vol. 28 No. 2 (2016)

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