This lecture provided an introduction to English for Academic Purposes (EAP), with special reference to two academic registers, namely scientific articles and press releases. In the first part of her lecture, Professor Di Ferrante focused on the importance of studying and teaching academic registers. To this end, she offered an overview of the horizontal and vertical variations of technical-scientific languages, along with their level of specialised exposition. In the second part of her lecture, Professor Di Ferrante offered an in depth presentation of her own study, which investigates bijective corpora consisting of scientific articles and press releases. Special attention was given to the different functions of these two academic registers and to the different linguistic strategies adopted to meet these different functions. In the case of scientific articles, titles are often compound titles, nominalization and hedging is more frequent and there is a higher degree of precision. In the case of press releases, titles are more short, they are more appealing than informative and hypernyms and hyponyms are more frequent.
19 gennaio 2023