ibibliometrics: Measuring Ten Years of Free-Range Academic Web Publishing

This research is a bibliometric study of descriptive information on the individual sites comprising the ibiblio.org academic web server. It hopes to acquire a snapshot of the general content, age, and sizes of the collections as a whole, and to look for any patterns or similarities among the publishing habits of its contributors. Initial measurements of dates, sizes and genres of ibiblio collections and other web directories revealed that one of the Internet's oldest and largest public archives suffers little of the stagnation and collection role that would be expected of such an organization. Its content slants towards the Arts and Entertainment, Technology, and History UDC categories, and that most of its physical collections web space is consumed by multimedia content

A corpus linguistic analysis of phraseology and collocation in the register of current European Union administrative French

The French administrative language of the European Union is an emerging discourse: it is less than fifty years old, and has its origins in the French administrative register of the middle of the twentieth century. This thesis has two main objectives. The first is descriptive: using the flourishing methodology of corpus linguistics, and a specially compiled two-million word corpus of texts, it aims to describe the current discourse of EU French in terms of its phraseology and collocational patterning, in particular in relation to its French national counterpart. The description confirms the phraseological specificity of EU language but shows that not all of this can be ascribed to semantic or pragmatic factors. The second objective of this thesis is therefore explanatory: given the phraseological differences evident between the two discourses, and by means of a diachronic comparison, it asks how the EU discourse has developed in relation to the national discourse. A detailed analysis is provided of differences between the administrative language as a whole and other registers of French, and indeed of genre-based variation within the administrative register. Three main types of phraseological patterning are investigated: phraseology which is the creation of administrators themselves; phraseological elements which are part of the general language heritage adopted by the administrative register; and collocational patterning which, as a statistical notion, is the creation of the corpus. The thesis then seeks to identify the most significant influences on the discourse. The data indicates that, contrary to expectations, English, nowadays the most commonly-used official language of the EU institutions, has had relatively little influence. More importantly, the translation process itself has acted as a conservative influence on the EU discourse. This corresponds with linguistic findings about the nature of translated text

Английский для таможни

Special course «English for Customs» is the textbook for students of law faculties who study customs business and for practical people who are eager to develop their knowledge of English to improve their careers and to climb the ladder in the field of customs activities. Special course «English for Customs» consists of following topics: Customs office, kinds of Customs houses, Customs duties, Customs formalities, duties of Customs officials, Customs services, Customs control, passport control, Customs declaration, personal examination, visa regime, Customs administration, Custom regulations, Customs revenue, Customs rules of values transportation. There are a great deal of original texts in English, are given various recommendations & comments on them, variety of dialogues and exercises to fasten knowledge of special vocabulary. Special course gives the opportunity in a short time to improve greatly your language basis, what is the main aim of successful career in future.Спецкурс «Английский для таможни» предназначен для студентов юридических факультетов, изучающих таможенное дело и для практиков, которые хотят усовершенствовать свои знания английского языка для своей карьеры в сфере таможенной деятельности. Спецкурс «Таможня» включает такие темы: Таможня (учреждение); Виды таможен; Таможенные пошлины; Таможенные формальности; Должностные обязанности таможенника; Таможенные службы; Таможенный контроль; Паспортный контроль; Личный досмотр; Таможенная декларация; Визовый режим; Таможенное управление; Таможенные инструкции; Контрабанда, Правила провоза ценностей. В книге приводятся оригинальные тексты на английском языке, даются всевозможные комментарии к ним, разнообразные диалоги и упражнения для закрепления специальной лексики. Спецкурс позволяет в короткие сроки значительно усовершенствовать свою языковую базу, что является первостепенным условием успешной карьеры в будущем