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Authoring support consists of (semi)automated aids to be used at different stages during the writing process. Language information, however, tends to be restricted to areas such as spelling and grammar checking or term banks, and text construction difficulties that writers face concerning the structure of particular genres, associated sentence formulations or genre-specific vocabulary have not received proper attention. An additional gap in the research is that this support is generally addressed to English language users. This paper addresses these concerns focusing on a particular genre: the company's directors' report, and on Spanish language writers writing in English. A custom-made monolingual corpus has been analyzed using Bhatia (1993, 2004) and Swales (1990, 2004) definitions of genre and move combined with theme characterization. Recurrent strings for each move/step, which are conventionally associated with each rhetorical unit, were identified and formulated as "meta-strings." The bilingual glossary includes domain-specific items as well as move/step or genre-specific lexical and phraseological options, i.e., elements used irrespective of the business, places or people involved. The results are valuable by themselves, as an analysis of the genre, but also as the empirical basis for the authoring support tool that we present here, and as language training materials. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper offers a programmatic proposal for the characterisation, or profiling, of editorials from the Spanish newspaper El País on the dimension of the explicit signalling of intersentential relations for purposes of comparison. The study adopts an integrated discourse as process approach to the description of language, in conjunction with some of the basic tenets of corpus linguistics. The paper advocates strict specificity and differentiation of text types in such studies and a rigorous respect for the intrasentential, the intersentential and the interparagraph segmentation which authors impose on their texts. Figures are offered for the frequency of selected connectors in a corpus of one whole year of editorials from this newspaper, together with information relating to their sentence and paragraph position. Additional consideration is given to important alternative means for the expression of intersentential relations and to questions related to corpus extent in studies of this nature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Grammar studies have focused lately on speech instead of on written language, being the latter the most traditional approach. This situation confronts us with the necessity of a new definition for some grammar concepts. This paper proposes a new definition for the concept of sentence so that it can be used for spoken Spanish analysis. Already existing definitions are evaluated and discarded because they do not fit with many normal speech structures. Besides, they usually are confusing regarding syntactic, prosodic and pragmatic features. We propose a new definition only based on grammar and semantic features. Conclusions show that this approach allows the syntactic analysis of speech in a much more accurate way. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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