Contents : Corpus-linguistic investigation into the domain-specific language of environmental engineering English - Collocation - Colligation - Semantic preference and semantic prosody in a domain-specific language - Word-formation phenomena - Morphological productivity - Application in ESP-courses at university level.
The Author: Sylvana Krauße studied English and French at the University of Halle-Wittenberg. Since 1999 she has been an ESP-lecturer and head of the Languages Centre at Fachhochschule Nordhausen. In 2007 the author completed her Ph.D. at the University of Jena. Her research interests focus on corpus linguistics and domain-specific lexicography.