Interdisciplinarity and aggressiveness. Characteristics of the lexis of photography

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lexis, photography, specialized languages, English for Specific Purposes

Abstract

The present paper aims at exploring the language of photography. In particular, it pretends to discover the main lexico-semantic features of the English of photography. It is a qualitative study based on corpus of nearly a million words whose sources have been blogs on photography written by professional photographers. The results show that it is a very rich and varied lexis. On the one hand, we can highlight its interdisciplinarity; photography is not limited to using its own terms but it shares a great number of words with other disciplines. We have found numerous terms inherited from the field of painting, optics, computing, among others. On the other hand, we have concluded that the language of photography presents an aggressive nature. This study intends to contribute to the field of English for Specific Purposes on the one hand, and on the other, to the field of photography, whose importance in the current society is growing.

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2020-12-19

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Mykytka, I. (2020). Interdisciplinarity and aggressiveness. Characteristics of the lexis of photography. Revista De Lenguas Para Fines Específicos, 26(2), 87–100. Retrieved from https://ojsspdc.ulpgc.es/ojs/index.php/LFE/article/view/1202

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