![]() We trialled the TAM with 837 financial-sector-specific words generated from a 6.7-million-word corpus of financial texts. All words in more technical categories have specialised senses. The set of categorisation criteria is stringent in the sense that even least technical words may have specialised senses in a specific discipline but those senses may be almost the same as the general sense. In identifying technicality we take four factors into account: 1) both general and specialised senses of a word (2) the banding of a word in reference word lists (3) the polysemy of a word (4) the literal meaning of a word. The Technicality Analysis Model (TAM) suggests five levels of technicality: least technical, slightly technical, moderately technical, very technical and most technical. This study proposes a method that identifies technicality and measures the degree of technicality of a word. The identification of technical words for teaching discipline-specific EAP courses remains a problem for materials designers and teachers alike. The results show that there is a large presence and variety of patterns of nouncompounds in photography, such as noun compounds made up of noun + noun (photo album, time-lapse, shutter speed), verb + noun (catchlight, burn tool, protect filter), adjective + noun (white balance, softbox, glowing filter) and phrase compounds (depth of focus, rule of thirds, pan and tilt). ![]() The data was gathered from professional photography blogs providing authentic up-to-date lexis. In order to carry out the study, a corpus-based approach was followed. The aim of this study is to outline the types of noun compounds in photography and to illustrate the range of semantic relationships and morphosyntactic patterns that occur in coining new noun compounds in the photography lexis. The present article focuses on compound nouns in photography, a field that has to date not been researched in this regard but is extremely rich and interesting. We find studies on compounds in science and technology or architecture, just to mention a few. However, in spite of a large number of works on compounds in the general language, few authors have dealt with compounds in specialized languages. Numerous studies have dealt with compounds in recent decades. Compounding is considered to be the most productive device in coining new words in many languages, including English.
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