Journal of Technical Writing and Communication Oct 2010

Linguistics from the Perspective of the Theory of Models in Empirical Sciences: From Formal to Corpus Linguistics

Teresa Grabinska ; Dorota Zielinska

Abstract

The authors examine language from the perspective of models of empirical sciences, which discipline studies the relationship between reality, models, and formalisms. Such a perspective allows one to notice that linguistics approached within the classical framework share a number of problems with other experimental sciences studied initially exclusively within that framework because of making the same sort of assumptions. By examining solutions to some of these problems found in contemporary science, the authors point out alternative approaches, which could be relevant for linguistics research, and some of which have already been tested in language studies. In particular, Corpus Linguistics is presented as an especially promising approach, positioned to avoid many of the pitfalls of the classical framework. Consequently, it seems that the future of linguistics, from theoretical to applied, such as Technical Writing, must be embraced by Corpus Linguistics research.

Journal
Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
Published
2010-10-01
DOI
10.2190/tw.40.4.b
Open Access
Closed
Topics
multimodality technical communication race and writing

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