Investigating Specialized Discourse

Maurizio Gotti is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Bergamo. He is Director of CERLIS, the research centre on specialized languages based at the University of Bergamo. His main research areas are the features and origins of specialized discourse (Robert Boyle and the Language of Science, 1996, Specialized Discourse: Linguistic Features and Changing Conventions, 2003).

«Many teachers will profitably make use of this book and it is most likely to be gratefully consulted by all who are seriously involved in discourse research.» (Olga Karpova, Vestnik Ivanovskogo Universiteta)

• Contents: Defining the Notion of ‘Specialized Discourse’ – Lexical Features of Specialized Discourse – Syntactic Features of Specialized Discourse – Textual Features of Specialized Discourse – The Development of Specialized Discourse in the 17th Century – The Origins of the Experimental Essay – The Formation of the Lexis of Computer Science – The Language of Popularisation.