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The Continuing Evolution of Languages for Specific Purposes
The Modern Language Journal, 2012This overview to The Modern Language Journal's Focus Issue on Languages for Specific Purposes (LSP) takes a fresh look at issues examined in a 1991 article by Grosse and Voght. Reflecting on change drivers and growth in LSP, the authors comment on current challenges to the field and future research needs.
CHRISTINE UBER GROSSE, GEOFFREY M. VOGHT
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LANGUAGES FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES
Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 2000Thirty-five years ago, three leading British linguists published a landmark volume entitled The linguistic sciences and language teaching (Halliday, McIntosh and Strevens 1964). The careful wording of the title of this book was something of a clarion call; in effect, the authors promised to usher in a Brave New World of a stronger descriptive base for ...
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Analyzing Languages for Specific Purposes Discourse
The Modern Language Journal, 2012In the last 20 years, technological advancement and increased multidisciplinarity has expanded the range of data regarded as within the scope of languages for specific purposes (LSP) research and the means by which they can be analyzed. As a result, the analytical work of LSP researchers has developed from a narrow focus on specialist terminology ...
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Assessing Languages for Specific Purposes
1999This book is essential reading for anyone interested in evaluating languages for specific purposes (LSP).
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Language for Specific Purposes and translation
2017This chapter is divided into two parts: the first is devoted to the historical background and major trends in the interaction of Language for Specific Purposes (LSP) and translation; the second part treats practical issues by examining how translators of specialized discourse perform. The first part begins with two tales: the tale of LSP, and the story
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Prototyping Domain Specific Languages as Extensions of a General Purpose Language
2013Domain Specific Languages (DSLs) often consist of general constructs alongside domain-specific ones. A prominent example is a state machine consisting of states and transitions as well as expressions and statements. Adding general concepts to a DSL is a complex and time-consuming task.
Andreas Blunk, Joachim Fischer
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Specific-purpose language performance tests
Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Series S, 1996Abstract Oral performance tests designed to assess candidates’ ability to function in a particular professional role typically involve role plays which simulate aspects of professional interaction between a candidate, in his/her professional role, and an interlocutor, in the role of client or consumer of the professional services ...
Tom Lumley, Annie Brown
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Assessment Issues in Languages for Specific Purposes
The Modern Language Journal, 2012While Grosse and Voght (1991) set out a well‐considered overview of LSP and identified areas in need of development, they limited their observations on the topic of assessment to a short section devoted to what they called the proficiency movement. While it is true that they really did not have a lot to report on at the time they wrote their review ...
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Symbiotic general-purpose and domain-specific languages
2012 34th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2012Atkinson, Colin +2 more
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