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Vol. 28:1 (2022) ► pp.37–64

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The phraseology of wine and olive oil tasting notes

A corpus based semantic analysis

ORCiD logo with link | ACTRES-University of Valladolid
ORCiD logo with link | ACTRES-University of Valladolid
Published online: 2 December 2021
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https://doi.org/10.1075/term.20035.lop
Abstract
Specialized genres are bound to the communicative context of their discourse community. However, certain genres extend beyond one specific domain, remaining unchanged at different linguistic levels across domains. That seems to be the case of wine and olive oil tasting notes since both analyze and evaluate sensory descriptions. The present study aims at describing and comparing lexical chunks of wine and olive oil tasting notes at a semantic level to show if there is variation in the same genre across domains; we will not only describe, classify and compare lexical chunks, but also identify the way this knowledge is structured and construed in the same genre in both domains. We will test our methodology in a corpus of English tasting notes from both genres written by three different writer profiles: professionals, amateurs and wineries/mills. Our results will be useful for scholars as well as technical writers when writing tasting notes.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.The genre of tasting notes
    • 2.1An approach to the study of phraseology in olive oil and wine tasting notes
    • 2.2Tasting notes from a semantic point of view
  • 3.Methodology
    • 3.1Corpus and corpus design
    • 3.2Corpus annotation
      • 3.2.1Rhetorical tagging
      • 3.2.2Lexical chunks
      • 3.2.3Semantic tagging
      • 3.2.4Configurational and contentful ontologies
  • 5.Results
  • 6.Conclusions
  • Notes
  • References
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