Publication detail

The Language of Science and Technology: Linguistics as a Part of a Multidisciplinary Study Program

SMUTNÝ, M.

Original Title

The Language of Science and Technology: Linguistics as a Part of a Multidisciplinary Study Program

Type

conference paper

Language

English

Original Abstract

Selected issues of Linguistics that have to be considered in language and linguistic courses within a new interdisciplinary study program “English in Electrical Engineering and IT” provided by the Department of Foreign Languages at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Communication, Brno University of Technology. The language of Electrical Engineering as a specific variety. Differences between languages and the strategies used to avoid shifts in the specific information, the use of terminology for precise description of reality, information-condensation in technical and scientific texts, premodification, explicitness and implicitness in the language of Technology.

Keywords

Linguistics, Adjectives, Extralinguistic reality, Technology, terminology

Authors

SMUTNÝ, M.

Released

15. 3. 2017

Publisher

ReCLes.pt - Associação de Centros de Linguas do Ensino Superior em Portugal www. recles.pt

Location

Lisabon, Portugalsko

ISBN

978-989-8557-78-0

Book

María del Carmen Arau Ribeiro, Anna Goncalves and Manuel Moreira da Silva (eds.): Languages and the Market: A ReCLes.pt Selection of International Perspectives and Approaches

Pages from

32

Pages to

41

Pages count

10

URL

http://paol.iscap.ipp.pt/recles/images/Documentos/Languages&Market_Proceedings.pdf

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT134631,
  author="Milan {Smutný}",
  title="The Language of Science and Technology: Linguistics as a Part of a Multidisciplinary Study Program",
  booktitle="María del Carmen Arau Ribeiro, Anna Goncalves and Manuel Moreira da Silva (eds.): Languages and the Market: A ReCLes.pt Selection of International Perspectives and Approaches",
  year="2017",
  pages="32--41",
  publisher="ReCLes.pt - Associação de Centros de Linguas do Ensino Superior em Portugal www. recles.pt",
  address="Lisabon, Portugalsko",
  isbn="978-989-8557-78-0",
  url="http://paol.iscap.ipp.pt/recles/images/Documentos/Languages&Market_Proceedings.pdf"
}