Medical Writing in Early Modern EnglishIrma Taavitsainen, Päivi Pahta Cambridge University Press, 3 feb 2011 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. |
Sommario
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3 Medical literacies and medical culture in early modern England | 30 |
4 Verbs of knowing | 44 |
5 Defining in Early Modern English medical texts | 74 |
6 Dissemination and appropriation of medical knowledge | 94 |
7 Codeswitching in Early Modern English medical writing | 115 |
8 New arguments for new audiences | 135 |
11 The development of specialized discourse in the Philosophical Transactions | 204 |
12 The expression of stance in early 16651712 publications of the Philosophical Transactions and other contemporary medic | 221 |
Appendix A Raw data tables corresponding to Figures 43414 | 248 |
Appendix B Raw data tables corresponding to Figures 8184 | 252 |
Appendix C Stance markers used in the analysis in Chapter 12 | 255 |
Appendix D Preliminary list of texts in the corpus of Early Modern English Medical Texts EMEMT | 258 |
Bibliography | 264 |
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