A Lexical description of English for Architecturea corpus-based approach

  1. Soneira Beloso, Begoña
Supervised by:
  1. Ignacio M. Palacios Martínez Director

Defence university: Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

Fecha de defensa: 05 July 2013

Committee:
  1. Teresa Fanego Chair
  2. Francisco Javier Fernández Polo Secretary
  3. Isabel de la Cruz Cabanillas Committee member
  4. Isabel Balteiro Fernández Committee member
  5. Guadalupe Aguado de Cea Committee member
Department:
  1. Department of English and German Philology

Type: Thesis

Abstract

This thesis deals with the different devices to coin new words in English for Architecture in order to do a description of the main lexical features of arhitetcure discourse in English from the perspective of English for Specific Purposes with a contribution of a trilingual glossary in English, Spanish and Galician.