“Researching Specialized Languages” edited by Vijay Bhatia (City University of Hong Kong), Purificación Sánchez Hernández and Pascual Pérez-Paredes (University of Murcia) has won the 4th Edition of the “Enrique Alcaraz Research Award”.

This volume presents research efforts in the field of specialised languages, including the analysis of research articles in disciplines as diverse as Biomedicine and Computing, on the one hand, and overlapping disciplines such as in Social Sciences, on the other, all with high relevance to English for Academic Purposes, and English for specific Purposes. The volume offers empirical evidence obtained from corpus-based analyses of language, both from diachronic as well as synchronic perspectives, on topics such as the role of mother tongue in professional writing, the analysis of conference abstracts as a genre, or the analysis of visual data transfer. This collection addresses issues such as the implementation of lexicons for specialised language learning, and the development of ontologies to research language patterns. The volume thus provides a rich repertoire of research methodologies, in-depth analyses of specialised discourses, and the identification and discussion of relevant pedagogic issues.

The “Enrique Alcaraz Research Award” (“Premio de Investigación Enrique Alcaraz”) aims at supporting and disseminating research focusing on LSP (Languages for Specific Purposes). The “Enrique Alcaraz Research Award” (“Premio de Investigación Enrique Alcaraz”) is granted to the best research study on LSP. It can be a published or unpublished monograph (including edited collections). In the case of books, they must have been published in the last three years.