LSP in Colombia

Table Of Contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• About the Editors
• About the Book
• This eBook can be cited
• Contents
• Foreword: Gabriel Quiroz / Pedro Patiño
• 1. The origins
• 2. Contents of the book
• 2.1. Linguistic issues
• 2.2. Phraseological issues
• 2.3. Terminological issues
• 2.4. Didactic issues
• 2.5. Textual issues
• 3. Concluding remarks
• Linguistic Issues
• Some Criteria for a Spanish Initialisms Recognition System: John Jairo Giraldo
• 1. Initialism definition and typology
• 1.1. Definition of initialisms
• 1.2. Typology of initialisms
• 1.2.1. Proper initialism
• 1.2.2. Non-proper initialism
• 2. Qualitative analysis of initialisms
• 2.1. Corpus compilation
• 2.2. Morphological analysis
• 2.2.1. Prefix+initialism
• 2.2.2. Initialism+initialism
• 2.2.3. Gender and number
• 2.3. Syntactic analysis
• 3. Quantitative analysis of initialisms
• 3.1. Descriptive statistics of Genomics initialisms
• 3.2. Descriptive statistics of environment initialisms
• 4. Criteria for a Spanish initialism recognition system
• 4.1. Initialism formation rules
• 4.1.1. Basic rules of initialism formation
• 4.1.2. Complementary rules for initialism formation
• 4.2. Initialism recognition patterns
• 4.2.1. Initialism candidate recognition patterns
• 4.2.2. Initialism-expansion pair recognition patterns
• 5. Conclusions
• 6. References
• Syntactic Features in Specialized Texts: A Comparison of Two Syntactic Patterns in Texts of Different Levels of Specialization: Oscar Andrés Calvache / Mercedes Suárez
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Theoretical framework
• 2.1. Syntactic features of specialized texts
• 3. Methodology
• 3.1. Criteria of corpus selection
• 3.2. Identification and extraction of specialized noun phrases and passive voice
• 4. Analysis and results
• 4.1. Comparison of syntactic features vs. levels of specialization
• 4.1.1. Specialized noun phrases
• 4.1.2. Passive voice
• 6. Conclusions
• 7. Acknowledgements
• 8. References
• Applying Linguistic Methods for a Semiautomatic Analysis of Corporative Documents: Standard Operating Procedure: Bell Manrique, Diego Burgos, Carlos Zapata
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Conceptual framework
• 2.1. Specialized discourse analysis
• 2.2. Linguistic analysis and corpus linguistics
• 2.3. Corporate technical documentation
• 3. State-of-the-art review
• 3.1. Analysis of linguistic features from documents
• 3.2. Identification of the knowledge domain and business process
• 4. Linguistic analysis
• 4.1. Rhetorical analysis
• 4.2. Morphosyntactic analysis
• 4.3. Semantic analysis
• 5. Evaluation
• 5.1. Preliminary analysis of the verbs
• 5.2. Preprocessing of SOP from the evaluation corpus
• 5.3. Processing with dependency parser
• 6. Conclusions and future work
• 7. Acknowledgements
• 8. References
• Advances and Challenges of an Ontology Focused on Verbs Related to Political Violence: Ana María Tangarife, Germán Urrego, Jorge Antonio Mejía
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Verbs
• 2.1. Verb management
• 2.2. Ontologies of verbs
• 3. An ontology based on verbs in the field of political violence
• 3.1. Corpus or base of knowledge
• 3.2. Classes and conceptual categories
• 3.3. Types of words
• 3.4. Selected verbs
• 3.5. Classification of verbs
• 4. Role of verbs in relation to other elements
• 5. Model of a textual analysis system based on verbs
• 5.1. Agents of system
• 5.2. System Process
• 5.3. Description of Protégé model
• 5.4. System functional requirements
• 6. Methodology
• 7. Conclusions
• 8. References
• Identification of Knowledge Units Contained in Spanish Texts: Julio César Foronda, Germán Urrego, Gloria Giraldo
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Knowledge units
• 3. Basic concepts about the Spanish language grammar
• 3.1. Syntactic and semantic features
• 3.2. The predicate of the sentence
• 4. Formalism for representing atomic knowledge units
• 5. Identification of knowledge units
• 6. Results and conclusions
• 7. References
• Phraseological Issues
• Challenges in the Translation of General and Specialized Phraseology: Germán Mira, John Jairo Giraldo
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Corpora
• 3. The translation of phraseology
• 4. Analysis and results
• 4.1. GL analysis
• 4.1.1. Full correspondence
• 4.1.2. Full correspondence in content but not in constituents
• 4.1.3. Full correspondence in content but partial correspondence in constituents
• 4.1.4. Partial correspondence in semantic or pragmatic value
• 4.1.5. Calque
• 4.1.6. Paraphrase
• 4.1.7. Omission
• 4.1.8. Single lexeme (reduction)
• 4.2. LSP analysis
• 4.2.1. Equivalent SPU
• 4.2.2. Paraphrase
• 4.2.3. Semantic calquing
• 4.2.4. Lexical calquing
• 4.2.5. Loan
• 4.2.6. Single lexeme
• 4.2.7. Omission
• 4.2.8. Overtranslation
• 5. Conclusions
• 6. References
• Towards a Definition of Specialized Collocations: Pedro Patiño
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Criteria for collocability
• 2.1. Criteria of collocability
• 2.1.1. Frequency of co-occurrence
• 2.1.2. Combinatory restrictions
• 2.1.3. Degree of composionality
• 2.1.4. Degree of transparency
• 2.1.5. Adjacency versus span of words between node and collocate
• 3. Specialized features
• 4. Conclusion
• 4.1. Future work
• 5. Acknowledgements
• 6. References
• Terminological Issues
• On Premodified Terms in Five Specialized Dictionaries: Gabriel Quiroz, Alejandro Arroyave
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Importance of dictionaries in LSP
• 3. Criteria and selection of the terminological corpus
• 4. Results
• 4.1. Length and frequency of NP
• 4.3. Frequency of patterns
• 4.4. Frequency of patterns by length
• 4.5. Morphological features of premodification
• 5. Conclusions
• 6. References
• An Image-Term Co-occurrence Model for Multilingual Terminology Alignment and Cross-Language Image Indexing: Diego Burgos
• 1. Introduction
• 2. The BC model
• 2.1. Theoretical rationale
• 2.2. Implementation of the BC model and concluding remarks
• 2.2.1. Search space characterization
• 2.2.2. Search space drawbacks
• 2.2.3. Image-term alignment
• 2.2.3.1. MWT recognition
• 2.2.3.2. Noun classification
• 2.4. Description of the prototype
• 3. Related work
• 4. References
• International Terminology Standards in the Export Sector in Colombia: Juan Carlos Díaz
• 1. Introduction
• 2. International terminological standardization
• 3. Perspectives of terminology development in Colombia
• 4. Analysis of the Colombian export sector
• 5. Organizations of the Colombian export sector
• 5.1. Proexport
• 5.2. Norexport
• 6. Application of the international terminology standards
• 7. Conclusions
• 8. References
• Translation Subcompetences and Terminological Implication Levels in Professional Translators: Olga Umaña, Mercedes Suárez
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Theoretical framework
• 2.1. Translation competence
• 2.2. Terminological competence
• 2.3. Translation problems
• 3. Methodology
• 3.1. Type of research
• 3.2. Participants selection criteria
• 3.3 Instruments to measure translation subcompetences and terminological implication levels
• 3.3.1. Texts labelled with translation problems
• 3.3.2. Value scale of the labelled texts
• 3.3.3. Semi-structured interview
• 3.3.4. Structured interview
• 4. Analysis and results
• 4.1. Comparison of translation subcompetences according to directionality
• 4.1.1. Direct translation task
• 4.1.2. Inverse translation task
• 4.1.3. Semi-structured interview
• 4.1.4. Structured interview
• 5. Conclusions
• 6. Acknowledgments
• 7. References
• Didactic Issues
• Translating Scientific and Technical Texts: The Translation Workshop as a Didactic Tool: Norman Gómez
• 1. Introduction
• 1.1. General context of scientific and technical translation courses in Colombia
• 1.2. Rationale for the design of “Traducir textos científicos y técnicos”
• 2. Theoretical framework
• 2.1. Brief introduction to the scientific language
• 2.2 Translation competence
• 2.3. Text typology, register and genre
• 2.4. Translation assessment
• 3. The book “Traducir textos científicos y técnicos”
• 3.1. Use of I&CT in the workshops
• 4. Sample answers from the students’ portfolios
• 5. Conclusions
• 6. References
• Some Didactic Strategies for the Teaching of Noun Phrases with Complex Premodification from English into Spanish: Alejandro Arroyave, Gabriel Quiroz
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Problems found in translation trainees
• 2.1. Identification of the head
• 2.2. Translation of NP
• 2.2. Translation problems found
• 3. Experiment in translation trainees
• 3.1. Description of the experiment
• 3.1.1. Participants
• 3.1.2. Materials
• 4. Results of the experiment
• 4.1. Data analysis
• 4.1.1. Results of the pretest
• 4.1.2. Application of the workshop
• 4.1.3. Results of the posttest
• 5. Some Didactic Strategies
• 5.1. Strategies generated for the translator trainees
• 5.2. Strategies generated for the translation teacher
• 6. Discussion
• 7. References
• Toward the Design of a Hybrid Learning Environment Based on Text Linguistics for Teacher Training in French as a Foreign Language (FFL) in Colombian Universities: Jorge M. Molina, Georges Antoniadis
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Research context: the formation of FFL teachers in Colombia
• 3. Problem and working hypotheses
• 4. Project foundations
• 4.1. A project based on text linguistics
• 4.2. CALL and NLP
• 4.3. Towards a blended learning environment
• 5. Project actions
• 5.1. Corpus compilation
• 5.2. Elaboration of pedagogical sequences
• 5.2.1. Phases included in the sequences
• 5.2.2. Types of tasks
• 5.2.3. Design and computer implementation
• 6. Conclusion
• 7. References
• Textual Issues
• Rhetorical Description of the PhD History Thesis Genre: an Analysis from two Discourse Communities on the Basis of the Corpus TeDiCE-2010: Juan David Martínez
• 1. Introduction
• 2.1. Theoretical framework
• 2.1.1. Discourse community and discourse genre
• 2.1.2. The doctoral thesis genre and its rhetorical analysis
• 3. Methodology
• 4. Results and discussion
• 4.1. Rhetorical-functional structure of doctoral theses in history
• 4.1.1. The displacement
• 5. Conclusions
• 6. References
• Metaphor in Colombian Slang: A Quantitative Analysis: Juan Manuel Pérez
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Theoretical framework
• 3. Methodology and data analysis
• 3.1. Evaluation
• 3.2. Behavior
• 3.3. Shape (concrete)
• 3.4. Result
• 3.5. Function
• 4. Conclusions
• 5. References
• Variation of Metaphor Use across Rhetorical Structure in two Genres: Rafael Zapata Dederle
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Rationale
• 2.1. Identification of linguistic metaphors
• 2.2. Quantitative aspects of metaphor
• 2.3. Identification of rhetorical goal units
• 3. Corpus
• 3.1. Sampling method
• 3.2. Reliability tests: inter-rater agreement
• 4. Results
• 4.1. Three-way interaction between rhetorical goal, metaphor and word class in newsletters and research articles
• 5. Conclusion
• 6. Acknowledgements
• 7. References
• Text Functions and Citation Patterns in Specialized Texts: A Contrastive Study of the Case Report Genre: Carlos Muñoz Torres
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Theoretical framework
• 3. Methodology
• 3.1. Corpus
• 3.2. Methodology of Analysis
• 4. Analysis and results
• 5. Citation and citation patterns
• 6. Conclusions
• 7. References
• Explicit Denominative Variation Markers and their Implications in Translation: Mercedes Suárez
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Theoretical framework
• 2.1. Semantic relations and discourse markers
• 3. Methodology
• 3.1. Specialized corpus and selection criteria
• 3.2. Detection and selection of the Terminological Units (TUs) characteristic of the subject
• 3.3. Screening and selection of explicit denominative variants
• 3.4. Performance of the explicit denominative variation markers
• 4. Analysis and results of the ST
• 4.1. Expansion
• 4.1.1. Metaphorical expansion
• 4.1.2. Nonmetaphorical Expansion
• 4.2. Reduction
• 4.2.1. Reduction by elision
• 4.2.2. Reduction by abbreviation
• 4.3. Refocalization
• 4.3.1. External Refocalization
• 4.3.2. Internal Refocalization
• 5. Contrastive analysis and results
• 5.1. Absolute coincidence of the EDV in the TT
• 5.2. Relative coincidence of the EDV in the TT
• 5.2.1. Identical variation type and subtype, different marker
• 6. Conclusions
• 7. Acknowledgments
• 8. References
• Notes on Contributors