Compilation of a corpus of spoken maritime communications English with pedagogical and researching purposes
- Ana Bocanegra-Valle 1
- Rosa Mary de la Campa Portela 2
- 1 Universidad de Cádiz (Spain)
- 2 Universidade da Coruña (Spain)
- María Luisa Carrió Pastor (coord.)
- Josefa Contreras Fernández (coord.)
- Françoise Olmo Cazevieille (coord.)
- Hanna Skorczynska Sznajder (coord.)
- Inmaculada Tamarit Vallés (coord.)
- Debra Westall Pixton (coord.)
Verlag: Universidad Politécnica de Valencia = Universitat Politècnica de València
ISBN: 978-84-694-6226-3
Datum der Publikation: 2011
Seiten: 309-317
Kongress: Congreso Internacional de la Asociación Europea de Lenguas para Fines Específicos (10. 2011. Valencia)
Art: Konferenz-Beitrag
Zusammenfassung
This paper focuses on the compilation of a small corpus to satisfy the demands of specialised languages as is the case of Maritime English. The background to this paper is depicted in the first place by briefly exploring the existence of both written and spoken corpora as applied to specialised languages, and then by outlining what Maritime English communications are for a better understanding of the context in which such specialised corpus has been created. Next, the compilation process of ECOMARS, a corpus which contains real and spontaneous spoken instances of maritime communications English, is discussed in detail: its design, requirements, speakers, and the collection, recording and treatment of the data gathered. Finally, some of the researching goals and pedagogical applications of ECOMARS within the field of Maritime English are put forward as a potential contribution to corpus linguistics studies.