The present paper is intended to carry out a corpus-based study of scientific discourse, by centring on phraseology as a key-tool for the discursive construction and circulation of disciplinary knowledge. The phraseological tendency of words to go together in order to create meaning is seen by Sinclair (1996) as a prominent aspect in the organisation of discourse, and it is examined here within the homogenous specialised context of research articles. The identification and corpus study of frequent 3- and 4-word clusters suggests that phraseology deserves to be considered as a discourse feature around which the realisation of a number of crucial textual functions appears to revolve. In this regard, evidence shows that phraseology is closely knit with the expression of the spatio/temporal dimension inherent in the observation of natural phenomena, the assessment of causal relationships as well as patient/animal response to controlled experiments, the formulation of authorial evaluation and overall textual organisation.
Phraseology as a tool for the discursive construction of knowledge in scientific language / Mazzi, Davide. - STAMPA. - 2:(2011), pp. 331-338. (Intervento presentato al convegno Challenges for the 21st Century: Dilemmas, Ambiguities, Directions tenutosi a Roma nel 1-3 Ottobre 2009).
Phraseology as a tool for the discursive construction of knowledge in scientific language
MAZZI, Davide
2011
Abstract
The present paper is intended to carry out a corpus-based study of scientific discourse, by centring on phraseology as a key-tool for the discursive construction and circulation of disciplinary knowledge. The phraseological tendency of words to go together in order to create meaning is seen by Sinclair (1996) as a prominent aspect in the organisation of discourse, and it is examined here within the homogenous specialised context of research articles. The identification and corpus study of frequent 3- and 4-word clusters suggests that phraseology deserves to be considered as a discourse feature around which the realisation of a number of crucial textual functions appears to revolve. In this regard, evidence shows that phraseology is closely knit with the expression of the spatio/temporal dimension inherent in the observation of natural phenomena, the assessment of causal relationships as well as patient/animal response to controlled experiments, the formulation of authorial evaluation and overall textual organisation.
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