Parameters of Professional Discourse

Over the last twenty years I have seen the specific professional variety of English for Electrical Engineering to emerge, to constitute,and to be codified within texts on electrical engineering in academic settings. The worldwide spread of English as lingua franca and its various professional varieties have coincided with the recent flux in information and communication technologies. English has become an important part of engineering qualifications. Consequently the analysis of its professional discourse has become inevitable. The corpus of various texts on electrical engineering provided me with data essetial for identifying regularities and setting the parameters of the professional variety.

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Milena Krhutova, PhD: Studied English and Russian at Masaryk University in Brno. Head of Language Department at Brno University of Technology. For the last twenty years she has been teaching and educating future engineers and postgraduates in electrical engineering.