Contrastive Study of Management Science Thesis Texts in English and Latvian
Understanding the importance of academic text types, this study focuses on the structure and language of management science thesis summaries in English and Latvian. It addresses challenges such as language conventions, lack of immediate consultation, translation issues, and the need for doctoral studies reform. The research aims to facilitate writing and translation processes for these texts, contributing to knowledge creation and education in the field.
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CLARIN Students Session Moderator: Maciej Maryl Wednesday 7 October, 12.45 -13.45
A CONTRASTIVE STUDY OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE THESIS SUMMARY TEXTS IN ENGLISH AND LATVIAN Iveta Kopankina, University of Liepaja CLARIN October 5 6, 2020
complex social activities like educating students, demonstrating disseminating ideas knowledge, rely accomplish. Therefore, different science language text types, including dissertations and their summaries are central to the academic enterprise and are the very stuff of education and knowledge creation . Hyland (2009, 171) learning, constructing language and on to
Origins of the study - Language and Structure of Latvian Scientific Texts (ZIVS), - Intra-Lingual Aspects of the Latvian Scientific Language and - Course for the doctoral students on the tools and resources of CLARIN -LV
Latvia: - In-depth research of the language of science started inthe1990-s -isstillfragmentary. Aim: - toresearch therespective texts, - to facilitate the process of writing and translationthereof.
Problems Problems Different conventions Language other than native Immediate consultation not always available Translation issues Reform of the doctoral studies Crisis
False friends Tourism destination is one of the core stone of for tourism company management. Inclusion of security issue can be included following wider research on service quality maintenance, including security as one of the quality management system aspects. Research framework (the scope of the study) does not allow to explore completely included business model block.
Relevance Two parallel corpora of management science theses summary texts 50 texts original texts in English Latvian translations writtenfrom 2013 to 2020 Average number of pages per summary: 48, Average number of words per summary: 12221 Representative study: 98% of texts analyzed - - - -
Relevance Micro - and macro-structure analysiswith AntConc analysis of terms (false friends) elements denoting the authors stance
Solution Who will benefit? Doctoral students Translators Academic community
Outcome Input into CLARIN projects: -inclusion of the study results into CLARIN repository -information for doctoral students and translators -information for scientists -examples of recurring mistakes Foundation for further research
