Danica Salazar

List of John Benjamins publications in which Danica Salazar is involved.

Titles

Lexical Bundles in Native and Non-native Scientific Writing: Applying a corpus-based study to language teaching

Danica Salazar

This book presents an investigation of lexical bundles in native and non-native scientific writing in English, whose aim is to produce a frequency-derived, statistically- and qualitatively-refined list of the most pedagogically useful lexical bundles in scientific prose: one that can be sorted and… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 65] 2014. ix, 212 pp.

Biomedical English: A corpus-based approach

Edited by Isabel Verdaguer, Natalia Judith Laso and Danica Salazar

The corpus-based studies in this volume explore biomedical research writing in English from a variety of perspectives. The articles in this collection delve into the lexicographic issues involved in building an electronic database of collocations and lexical bundles, offer insight on the teaching… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 56] 2013. xiii, 214 pp.

Articles (6) | Order by:

Muñoz-Basols, Javier and Danica Salazar 2016 Cross-linguistic lexical influence between English and Spanish Spanish in Context 13:1, pp. 80–102 | Article

This article focuses on the cross-linguistic lexical influence between English and Spanish. We begin by redefining the concept of cross-linguistic lexical influence as the impact that two or more languages have on each other’s vocabulary. We then present a brief chronological survey of… read more

Laso, Natalia Judith and Danica Salazar 2013 Collocations, lexical bundles and SciE-Lex: A review of corpus research on multiword units of meaning Biomedical English: A corpus-based approach, Verdaguer, Isabel, Natalia Judith Laso and Danica Salazar (eds.), pp. 1–20 | Article

This chapter provides an overview of studies on multiword units of meaning that have made an impact on the creation of SciE-Lex (see Verdaguer et al. this volume). We discuss a variety of statistical, phraseological and rhetorical approaches to collocation, as well as the notion of lexical bundle… read more

Salazar, Danica, Aaron Ventura and Isabel Verdaguer 2013 A cross-disciplinary analysis of personal and impersonal features in English and Spanish scientific writing Biomedical English: A corpus-based approach, Verdaguer, Isabel, Natalia Judith Laso and Danica Salazar (eds.), pp. 121–144 | Article

This study is a corpus-based, cross-linguistic and cross-disciplinary analysis of impersonal and personal constructions in scientific texts. Passive structures (to be + past participle) and personal expressions (first-person pronouns) were extracted from a corpus of research articles taken from an… read more

Salazar, Danica, Isabel Verdaguer, Natalia Judith Laso, Elisabet Comelles, Emilia Castaño Castaño and Joseph Hilferty 2013 Formal and functional variation of lexical bundles in biomedical English Biomedical English: A corpus-based approach, Verdaguer, Isabel, Natalia Judith Laso and Danica Salazar (eds.), pp. 39–54 | Article

This study is an investigation of the morphosyntactic, lexical and functional variation of lexical bundles in scientific writing. In this chapter, we discuss the various methodological issues involved in the analysis of the structural variability and multifunctionality of lexical bundles, and the… read more

Verdaguer, Isabel, Natalia Judith Laso and Danica Salazar 2013 Introduction Biomedical English: A corpus-based approach, Verdaguer, Isabel, Natalia Judith Laso and Danica Salazar (eds.), pp. ix–xiv | Article

Verdaguer, Isabel, Natalia Judith Laso, Trinidad Guzmán-González, Danica Salazar, Elisabet Comelles, Emilia Castaño Castaño and Joseph Hilferty 2013 SciE-Lex: A lexical database Biomedical English: A corpus-based approach, Verdaguer, Isabel, Natalia Judith Laso and Danica Salazar (eds.), pp. 21–38 | Article

This chapter deals with the main methodological issues underlying the building of the SciE-Lex lexical database and discusses and justifies the information included. SciE-Lex was initially conceived as a response to the lack of reference tools that can help scientists write scientific papers in… read more