Analysing digital genres: function and functionality in corporate websites of computer hardware

• Autores: Alicia Bolaños Medina, María Jesús Rodríguez Medina , Lydia Esther Bolaños Medina, Luis Javier Losada García
• Localización: Ibérica: Revista de la Asociación Europea de Lenguas para Fines Específicos ( AELFE ), ISSN-e 2340-2784, ISSN 1139-7241, Nº. 9, 2005, págs. 123-147
• Idioma: inglés
• Títulos paralelos:
  • Análisis de géneros digitales: función y funcionalidad en sitios web comerciales de hardware informático
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  • español

    El objetivo de este artículo es caracterizar los sitios web comerciales mediante la descripción de sus propiedades lingüísticas, semióticas y pragmáticas. Asimismo, identificamos el marco predominante de características de funcionalidad de los sitios web de equipamiento informático de empresas estadounidenses, para lo que hemos analizado un corpus textual en inglés. Esta investigación ha sido realizada en el marco del proyecto DIGALTT (Digital Genre Analysis for Language Teaching and Translation), financiado por la Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Sus conclusiones se aplican a la enseñanza del Inglés para Fines Específicos y la traducción de sitios web

  • English

    The aim of this paper is to characterize corporate websites by describing some linguistic, semiotic and pragmatic properties regarding function and functionality. We also try to define the current prevailing set of functionality features of hardware corporate websites. For the purposes of our research we have analysed an English corpus of corporate websites of computer hardware from the United States. This research has been carried out as a part of the DIGALTT (Digital Genre Analysis for Language Teaching and Translation) Project, currently funded by the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Conclusions are intended to be applied to the teaching of English for Specific Purposes and Web Site Translation

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