Complexidade textual em artigos científicos : contribuições para o estudo do texto científico em português

Abstract

This text presents the basis of a research project that deals with the issue of textual complexity (TC), examining aspects of Pediatrics papers against newspaper articles. In the literature review, it is mobilized works related to the subject of TC in Applied Linguistics, Terminology studies that follow a textual point of view, Computational Linguistics and Corpus Linguistics. Some highlighted elements in the contrast between the examination of texts and the literature reviewed are the measures to TC ratio and degrees of text specialization, which would preview differences between specialized language and everyday language. The paper concludes with the presentation of prospects for the treatment of the issue of TC among the studies on scientific discourse.