A taxonomic study of economics and business genre colonies. A corpus-based analysis of metadiscourse markers in English, French and Spanish

The COMENEGO (Corpus Multilingüe de Economía y Negocios [Multilingual Economics and Business Corpus]) project aims to compile a corpus that will be freely available online useful for LSP trainers, translators, trainee translators translator trainers. project’s stages include designing virtual platform access the corpus’s texts, compiling analysing pilot evaluate proposed text categories, which used as means of filtering searches in once it is online. Many classifications are based on prior experience or other never empirically validated.
 While classification here draws previous proposals observation professional academic arenas, we have also looked validate empirically, validation with this paper concerned.
 We linguistics tools analyse metadiscourse three subcorpora (English, French Spanish), taking Hyland’s (2005) work basis case English, determine if our categories internal linguistic characteristics support confirm their taxonomic validity