UID:
almahu_9947414283202882
Umfang:
1 online resource (xix, 300 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9780511921193 (ebook)
Serie:
Studies in English language
Inhalt:
Medical writing tells us a great deal about how the language of science has developed in constructing and communicating knowledge in English. This volume provides a new perspective on the evolution of the special language of medicine, based on the electronic corpus of Early Modern English Medical Texts, containing over two million words of medical writing from 1500 to 1700. The book presents results from large-scale empirical research on the new materials and provides a more detailed and diversified picture of domain-specific developments than any previous book. Three introductory chapters provide the sociohistorical, disciplinary and textual frame for nine empirical studies, which address a range of key issues in a wide variety of medical genres from fresh angles. The book is useful for researchers and students within several fields, including the development of special languages, genre and register analysis, (historical) corpus linguistics, historical pragmatics, and medical and cultural history.
Anmerkung:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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An interdisciplinary approach to medical writing in Early Modern English /
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Medical texts in 1500-1700 and the corpus of Early Modern English Medical Texts /
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Medical literacies and medical culture in early modern England /
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Verbs of knowing: discoursive practices in early modern vernacular medicine /
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Defining in Early Modern English medical texts /
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Dissemination and appropriation of medical knowledge: humoral theory in Early Modern medical writing and lay texts /
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Code-switching in Early Modern English medical writing /
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New arguments for new audiences: a corpus-based analysis of interpersonal strategies in Early Modern English medical recipes /
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Efficacy phrases in Early Modern English medical recipes /
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Medical pamphlets: controversy and advertising /
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The development of specialized discourse in the Philosophical Transactions /
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The expression of stance in early (1665-1712) publications of the Philosophical Transactions and other contemporary medical prose: innovations in a pioneering discourse /
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version: ISBN 9780521117661
Sprache:
Englisch
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511921193
