Late Modern English Medical Texts
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| Author | : Turo Hiltunen |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 332 |
| Release | : 2022-06-15 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027257744 |
The original studies in this volume provide new insights into the history of medical discourse across centuries in both professional and lay texts. The central themes deal with changes in medical writing in various societal and cultural contexts in search for best practices in corpus pragmatics for future work. Some studies apply quantitative methods of corpus linguistics and Digital Humanities, others adopt a qualitative, discourse-analytical perspective, focusing on particular texts, authors or medical topics, or specific functionally-defined discourse forms such as narratives. Quantitative and qualitative approaches are mutually complementary and shed light on different aspects of historical medical discourse. The methodologies aim at establishing validity and reliability for pragmatic analysis, taking into account relevant contextual factors and insights from other fields, such as medical and social history, history of ideas, and science studies.
| Author | : Irma Taavitsainen |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 370 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9789027211774 |
The corpus "Early Modern English Medical Texts" (EMEMT) is the second component of the "Corpus of Early English Medical Writing "(CEEM), a three-part series of historical corpora of medical writing from 1375-1800. EMEMT contains a two-million word representative sample of the entire field of English medical writings that appeared in print between 1500 and 1700, and provides continuity to "Middle English Medical Texts" (MEMT), published on CD-ROM by John Benjamins in 2005.The EMEMT corpus includes c. 230 texts, ranging from theoretical treatises rooted in academic traditions of medicine to popularized and utilitarian texts verging on household literature. The texts are grouped into six text categories that facilitate systematic research into the history of medical writing in its disciplinary context: general treatises and textbooks; treatises on specific topics; recipe collections and "materia medica"; regimen and health guides; surgical treatises; and samples of the first scientific journal, the "Philosophical Transactions."EMEMT is released on CD-Rom with "EMEMT Presenter," purpose-designed software by Raymond Hickey.The corpus is published with a book, "Early Modern English Medical Texts: Corpus Description and Studies," edited by Irma Taavitsainen & Paivi Pahta."
| Author | : Isabel Moskowich |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 196 |
| Release | : 2016-04-08 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027262179 |
This volume includes methodological considerations and descriptions of some of the texts compiled in The Corpus of English Philosophy Texts (CEPhiT), together with a number of pilot studies that demonstrate how the corpus can be used to investigate English philosophy writing in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, from a synchronic and a diachronic perspective. CEPhiT is part of the Coruña Corpus of English Scientific Writing (CC). The sampling method employed requires the collection of extracts of ca. 10,000 words. This method has been followed in CETA and CEPhiT, with samples from 40 different authors in the latter, both from Europe and North America. Text selection is based on some extralinguistic criteria, such as year of publication, sex, geographical provenance and text-types/genres. The corpus contains samples belonging to six different genre categories. This taxonomy, as well as some other extralinguistic information, can be used to search the corpus. CEPhiT, together with the Coruña Corpus Tool purpose-designed software by IrLab, was originally made available with the volume on CD-rom. As of late 2018, these are also accessible online at the Repositorio Universidade Coruña: CCT at http://hdl.handle.net/2183/21850 and CEPhiT at http://hdl.handle.net/2183/21847
| Author | : Irma Taavitsainen |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2019 |
| Genre | : English literature |
| ISBN | : 9789027203229 |
This volume provides a comprehensive description of the main developments in medicine in 1700-1800, based on the corpus of Late Modern English Medical Texts (LMEMT). Its main focus is on language use in context, with stylistic variation according to genres, authors and audiences. The book is accompanied by a CD-rom containing the corpus.
| Author | : Erik Smitterberg |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 315 |
| Release | : 2021-11-25 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1108637078 |
Syntactic Change in Late Modern English presents a stability paradox to linguists; despite the many social changes that took place between 1700 and 1900, the language appeared to be structurally stable during this period. This book resolves this paradox by presenting a new, idiolect-centred perspective on language change, and shows how this framework is applicable to change in any language. It then demonstrates how an idiolect-centred framework can be reconciled with corpus-linguistic methodology through four original case studies. These concern colloquialization (the process by which oral features spread to writing) and densification (the process by which meaning is condensed into shorter linguistic units), two types of change that characterize Modern English. The case studies also shed light on the role of genre and gender in language change and contribute to the discussion of how to operationalize frequency in corpus linguistics. This study will be essential reading for researchers in historical linguistics, corpus linguistics and sociolinguistics.
| Author | : Paula Rautionaho |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2020 |
| Genre | : Computational linguistics |
| ISBN | : 9789027205438 |
This book showcases eleven studies dealing with corpora and the changing society. The contributors in this volume use a variety of corpus methods to address the two patterns of change.
| Author | : Irma Taavitsainen |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 341 |
| Release | : 2022-10-31 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1009100092 |
This multidisciplinary volume offers new insights into the development of genres of medical discourse in changing socio-cultural contexts.
| Author | : Andreas H. Jucker |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 688 |
| Release | : 2018-06-25 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 3110424924 |
Methods in Pragmatics provides a systematic overview of the different types of data, the different methods of data collection and data analysis used in pragmatic research. It offers authoritative and comprehensive surveys of the entire breadth of methods and methodologies. Part 1 covers introspectional, philosophical and cognitive pragmatics. Part 2 is devoted to experimental pragmatics, including discourse completion and dialogue construction tasks, role-plays and other production and comprehension tasks. Part 3 reviews observational pragmatics including ethnographic and discourse analytic methods, and part 4, finally, is devoted to corpus pragmatics including accounts of corpus compilation, annotation and data retrieval specific to pragmatic research. Each contribution provides a state-of-the-art account of the precise workings of one particular method, its applications in the relevant research literature as well as a critical assessment of its strengths and weaknesses and the type of pragmatic research questions for which it is most suitable.
| Author | : Matti Peikola |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 323 |
| Release | : 2020-11-15 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027260559 |
This volume explores the complex relations of texts and their contextualising elements, drawing particularly on the notions of paratext, metadiscourse and framing. It aims at developing a more comprehensive historical understanding of these phenomena, covering a wide time span, from Old English to the 20th century, in a range of historical genres and contexts of text production, mediation and consumption. However, more fundamentally, it also seeks to expand our conception of text and the communicative ‘spaces’ surrounding them, and probe the explanatory potential of the concepts under investigation. Though essentially rooted in historical linguistics and philology, the twelve contributions of this volume are also open to insights from other disciplines (such as medieval manuscript studies and bibliography, but also information studies, marketing studies, and even digital electronics), and thus tackle opportunities and challenges in researching the dynamics of text and framing phenomena in a historical perspective.
| Author | : Paula Rautionaho |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 319 |
| Release | : 2020-04-15 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027261318 |
This book showcases eleven studies dealing with corpora and the changing society. The theme of the volume reflects the fact that changes in society lead to changes in language and vice versa. Focusing on the English language, be it from Old English to the present, or a shorter time span in the immediate past, the contributors in this volume use a variety of corpus methods to address the two patterns of change. The cross-fertilization of cultural studies and corpus linguistics, we hope, is beneficial for both parties, as corpus linguistics offers a vast array of materials and methods to investigate cultural and societal change, while cultural studies provide the theoretical background on which to build our research. The studies included in the present volume illustrate the potential avenues and the merits of combining changing language and changing societies.
