Applied Languages: Theory and Practice in ESP

Today more and more linguists and language specialists the world over are acknowledging the vital role of ESP within the English language teaching and learning area. Consequently, teachers and learners alike are discovering that there is a wider scope available to them in the field. Hopefully, the joint effort that went into the publishing of this volume will serve to motivate others to continue working in this direction.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Looking Ahead
Jordi Piqué and David J. Viera
PART ONE:
SOME THEORETICAL ASSUMPTIONS
1. A Word in Season: Concepts, Contexts, and Communication of Meaning. Wilga Rivers
2. Back to Basics. Denis Clare
3. The Boundaries of the Concepts of Genre, Register and Style in Academic Discourse. Rosa Giménez Moreno.
4. Marked Theme as a Heuristic for Analysing Text-Type, Text and Genre. Florence Davies
5. Theory and Practice in LSP Course Design. Alan Waters
6. ESP in Medical Science: A Multidimensional Approach to Syllabus Design. Liv Ingrid Ostbye
7. Layers of Specificity in Business English Discourse. Santiago Posteguillo and Juan Carlos Palmer
8. A Process and Product Oriented Approach to Writing Medical Essays. Nicolás Estévez and Jordi Piqué
PART TWO:
ESP IN PRACTICE
9. Critical Reading for ESP, or How Napoleon Became a General. Mike Scott.
10. The Linguistic Organization of Texts: Finding Relations in Discourse. Elvira Mª Montañés and Elena Bosch
11. Strategic Conversational Behaviour in the Discourse of Negotiation. Rosana Dolón
12. Creative Meaning-Making. Russell Napoli
13. Applying the Case Study Approach to Students of Business English. Pilar Bonet
14. Terminological Loans and the Teaching/Learning of Technical Vocabulary: The Use of Economic Anglicisms in the Business Classroom. Rafael Alejo and Margaret McGinity
15. Learning Strategies and Their Application to the Acquisition of Vocabulary by Learners of English for Specific Purposes. Tina Suau Jiménez
16. Translation in the Teaching of Scientific English: Translation or Text Typology. Eusebio V. Llácer Llorca.
Index
Notes on Contributors