Specialized Communication and Text Types

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Specialized Communication

Specialized communication is included in all kinds of texts, called specialized texts. These texts refer to the specific nature of content related to topics such as science and the professional world. They are used for communication between specialists in various fields. Examples include scientific discourse, legal discourse, and administrative language.

Terminology

Terminology is the set of words or lexical units that form the vocabulary of a specialized language. Its meaning must be precise and cannot be marked by the context, as is the case in common language. It is characterized by accuracy, objectivity, and universality. As in common language, terms and processes are formed by prefixation or suffixation, for example. There is a large terminology database containing multiple dictionaries and specialized vocabulary.

Expository Texts

Through these types of texts, we are given ordered concepts in fields such as science or culture, which helps to consolidate our knowledge.

Within these texts, we find explanations that organize the content in a way typical of research, i.e., with their hypothesis and the possible conclusion.

Features of Expository Texts:

  • Use of connectors and other markers
  • Use of specialized topics
  • Representative vocabulary
  • Rejection of emotions or prejudices
  • Abundance of internationalisms
  • Non-figurative senses, and preference for the impersonal
  • A clear correspondence between forms and meanings

Argumentation

Argumentation is a set of linguistic acts intended to make the receiver support an idea or proposition of the issuer. An argument should be made (which aims to make a conclusion acceptable) and a conclusion (which is the proof that the argument is valid). In argumentative discourse, the intention is that the receiver accepts the arguments raised and, if necessary, amends or changes their mind about what they believe.

Argumentative Texts

Argumentative text is a typical kind of text that attempts to convince someone of something, showing all or some of the reasons that prove a thesis or conclusion. If we distinguish between this text and the exhibition, we take into account that the arguments provided try to create an opinion in favor of the thesis being presented.

Argumentation

Argumentation is a set of linguistic acts intended to make the receiver support an idea or proposition of the issuer. An argument should be made (which aims to make a conclusion acceptable) and a conclusion (which is the proof that the argument is valid). In argumentative discourse, the intention is that the receiver accepts the arguments raised and, if necessary, amends or changes their mind about what they believe.

Argumentative Texts

Argumentative text is a typical kind of text that attempts to convince someone of something, showing all or some of the reasons that prove a thesis or conclusion. If we distinguish between this and expository texts, we note that the argument always tries to create an opinion in favor of the thesis being presented.
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