Corpus Linguistics and Technical Editing: How Corpora Can Help Copy Editors Adopt a Rhetorical View of Prescriptive Usage Rules

IF 1.8 2区 文学 Q3 BUSINESS Journal of Business and Technical Communication Pub Date : 2022-12-15 DOI:10.1177/10506519221143125
Jordan Smith
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Scholars have long argued that technical editing should be viewed as a rhetorical practice in which copy editors take “a situational approach to each individual task” (Buehler, 1980/2003, p. 458). Yet many editing pedagogies still treat some language-level editing tasks, like those that involve prescriptive usage rules, as mechanical rather than rhetorical. This article discusses how empirical data from corpora can help copy editors adopt a more rhetorical view of prescriptive usage rules and introduces corpus linguistics as a methodology that can contribute to technical editing pedagogy.
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语料库语言学与技术编辑:语料库如何帮助文案编辑采用规定用法规则的修辞观
长期以来,学者们一直认为,技术编辑应该被视为一种修辞实践,在这种实践中,文案编辑“对每一项单独的任务采取情境方法”(Buehler,1980/2003,第458页)。然而,许多编辑教学法仍然将一些语言级别的编辑任务视为机械而非修辞性的,比如那些涉及规定性使用规则的编辑任务。本文讨论了语料库中的经验数据如何帮助文案编辑对规定性使用规则采取更具修辞性的观点,并介绍了语料库语言学作为一种有助于技术编辑教学的方法论。
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期刊介绍: JBTC is a refereed journal that provides a forum for discussion of communication practices, problems, and trends in business, professional, scientific, and governmental fields. As such, JBTC offers opportunities for bridging dichotomies that have traditionally existed in professional communication journals between business and technical communication and between industrial and academic audiences. Because JBTC is designed to disseminate knowledge that can lead to improved communication practices in both academe and industry, the journal favors research that will inform professional communicators in both sectors. However, articles addressing one sector or the other will also be considered.
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