New and Further Approaches to ESP Discourse: Genre Study in Focus

Authors

  • Camino Rea Rizzo Universidad de Murcia
  • María Ángeles Orts Llopis Universidad de Murcia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6018/ijes/2011/1/137041

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Author Biographies

Camino Rea Rizzo, Universidad de Murcia

has been an Adjunct Professor in the Department of English Studies at the University of Murcia since 2007 and a full-time teacher in the Language Centre at the Technical University of Cartagena since 1999. She received her PhD from the University of Murcia in 2008. Her main research area is centred on corpus-driven description of specialized sublanguages, with a special interest in vocabulary teaching and learning in the field of Telecommunication Engineering English.

María Ángeles Orts Llopis, Universidad de Murcia

started developing her professional activity very early as a translator in the fields of Law and Economics, working for several national and international institutions. An English Philologist and a translator, she has taught and coordinated numerous Master Courses in Legal, Business and Financial English for the School of Business at Murcia University, at the University of Murcia itself, and at the Chamber of Commerce, among others. Her research interests have always been focused on the area of Languages Applied to Professional Purposes, especially in the field of the discourse of business and law. As a specialist in these fields, she has been a Visiting Scholar at the Brooklyn Law School, Brooklyn, NY, and at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, publishing numerous books and articles in these areas. At the moment, she teaches Legal, Economic and Scientific Translation at the Faculty of Humanities, and is the Associate Chair at the Translation and Interpreting Department. Her most recent research and publications mainly involve contrastive legal discourse in the area of mercantile law, and genres in the Common Law and Continental traditions, as well as the economic discourse of the Global Systemic crisis and its traductological consequences.
Published
01-06-2011
How to Cite
Rea Rizzo, C., & Orts Llopis, M. Ángeles. (2011). New and Further Approaches to ESP Discourse: Genre Study in Focus. International Journal of English Studies, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.6018/ijes/2011/1/137041