A corpus-based analysis of textual genres in the administration domain

Bibliographic Data

ID5966079
AuthorsIria Da Cunha (0000-0002-7707-1574, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, corresponding author), M Amor Montané (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), M Amor Montané March (0000-0001-8910-2297, Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Year2020
Volume22
Issue1
Pages3-31
Publication date2020-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDiscourse Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1461-4456 • E-ISSN: 1461-7080
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1461445619887538
OpenAlexW2990217604
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited16

Laymen occasionally have to write texts in specialized domains, such as when interacting with the public administration. However, in Spanish, most studies related to administrative texts have focused on texts written by the administration for laymen rather than texts that average citizens write to the administration. Against this backdrop, this article aims to carry out the following: (a) a linguistic analysis on a corpus of Spanish-language texts from five textual genres written by laymen and addressed to the public administration (allegation, cover letter, letter of complaint, claim, and application) on the textual, lexical and discourse levels; (b) a contrastive analysis that applies statistical techniques to quantitative data to identify significant differences among these textual genres. The results show a detailed and comprehensive understanding of the characteristics of each genre. Also, the statistical results indicate that there are significant differences among some of the analyzed genres

Complaint · Corpus linguistics · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Political science · Statistical analysis · Computer Science · History · Law · linguistics and terminology studies · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies · Text Readability and Simplification

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