Specialized Communication and English Studies: Research Proposals on Specialized Lexicography and English for Specific Purposes

Abstract

In this article, I intend to marshal evidence in order to advocate the leading role that English \nphilologists are called to play in the analysis of specialized communication. Considering that \nUniversity Degrees are being adapted to accommodate to Bologna guidelines, English \nphilologists, for example, could incorporate into their more traditional fields of research new \nanalyses of special communication, particularly those focused on specialized lexicography \nand English for Specific Purposes (ESP). With respect to specialized lexicography, the recent \npublication of the Dictionnaire dápprentissage du français des affaires (DAFA) offer interesting \ninsights as to how the works of pedagogical lexicographers suit the needs of specialists, \nwould-be specialists, and the informed layperson. Regarding ESP, two assumptions merit \nfurther interest. On the one hand, disciplinary variation is significant, thus paving the way \nfor more incisive and rather different genre analyses. On the other hand, research with \nspecial purpose corpora encourages us to think that the tenets of, for example, Discourse \nAnalysis, can be used to investigate the role played by ideology in specialized communication.

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