Medical Writing In Early Modern English
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Author | : Irma Taavitsainen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2011-02-03 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1139493833 |
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.
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 | : Manfred Görlach |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 492 |
Release | : 1991-07-26 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780521310468 |
A comprehensive account of Early Modern English considers writing and orthography, phonetics and phonology, syntax and the lexicon, and includes a valuable anthology of culturally oriented texts from a wide range of sources.
Author | : Irma Taavitsainen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 341 |
Release | : 2022-10-13 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1009117688 |
Written by an interdisciplinary team of scholars, this book offers novel perspectives on the history of medical writing and scientific thought-styles by examining patterns of change and reception in genres, discourse, and lexis in the period 1500-1820. Each chapter demonstrates in detail how changing textual forms were closely tied to major multi-faceted social developments: industrialisation, urbanisation, expanding trade, colonialization, and changes in communication, all of which posed new demands on medical care. It then shows how these developments were reflected in a range of medical discourses, such as bills of mortality, medical advertisements, medical recipes, and medical rhetoric, and provides an extensive body of case studies to highlight how varieties of medical discourse have been targeted at different audiences over time. It draws on a wide range of methodological frameworks and is accompanied by numerous relevant illustrations, making it essential reading for academic researchers and students across the human sciences.
Author | : J. Harris |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 498 |
Release | : 2012-05-07 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1137090766 |
In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Europeans invented 'Indians' and populated the world with them. The global history of the term 'Indian' remains largely unwritten and this volume, taking its cue from Shakespeare, asks us to consider the proximities and distances between various early modern discourses of the Indian. Through new analysis of English travel writing, medical treatises, literature, and drama, contributors seek not just to recover unexpected counter-histories but to put pressure on the ways in which we understand race, foreign bodies, and identity in a globalizing age that has still not shed deeply ingrained imperialist habits of marking difference.
Author | : Jennifer Evans |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 0861933249 |
An investigation into aphrodisiacs challenges pre-conceived ideas about sexuality during this period.
Author | : Helen Hackett |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 431 |
Release | : 2022-07-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300265247 |
The first comprehensive guide to Elizabethan ideas about the mind What is the mind? How does it relate to the body and soul? These questions were as perplexing for the Elizabethans as they are for us today—although their answers were often startlingly different. Shakespeare and his contemporaries believed the mind was governed by the humours and passions, and was susceptible to the Devil’s interference. In this insightful and wide-ranging account, Helen Hackett explores the intricacies of Elizabethan ideas about the mind. This was a period of turbulence and transition, as persistent medieval theories competed with revived classical ideas and emerging scientific developments. Drawing on a wealth of sources, Hackett sheds new light on works by Shakespeare, Marlowe, Sidney, and Spenser, demonstrating how ideas about the mind shaped new literary and theatrical forms. Looking at their conflicted attitudes to imagination, dreams, and melancholy, Hackett examines how Elizabethans perceived the mind, soul, and self, and how their ideas compare with our own.
Author | : Ninke Stukker |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 438 |
Release | : 2016-05-10 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110469634 |
The study of genre is scattered across research disciplines. This volume offers an integrative perspective starting from the assumption that genres are cognitive constructs, recognized, maintained and employed by members of a given discourse community. Its central questions are: What does genre knowledge consist of? How is it organized in cognition? How is it applied in discourse production and interpretation? How is it reflected in language use?
Author | : Howard Marchitello |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 571 |
Release | : 2017-02-27 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1137463619 |
This book is about the complex ways in which science and literature are mutually-informing and mutually-sustaining. It does not cast the literary and the scientific as distinct, but rather as productively in-distinct cultural practices: for the two dozen new essays collected here, the presiding concern is no longer to ask how literary writers react to scientific writers, but rather to study how literary and scientific practices are imbricated. These specially-commissioned essays from top scholars in the area range across vast territories and produce seemingly unlikely unions: between physics and rhetoric, math and Milton, Boyle and the Bible, plague and plays, among many others. In these essays so-called scientific writing turns out to traffic in metaphor, wit, imagination, and playfulness normally associated with literature provides material forms and rhetorical strategies for thinking physics, mathematics, archeology, and medicine.
Author | : Andreas H. Jucker |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 2013-12-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027270899 |
Uncovering the meaning of individual words or entire texts is a complex process that needs to take into consideration the multiple interactions of linguistic organization including orthography, morphology, syntax and, ultimately, pragmatics. The papers in this volume pay close attention to these interactions and assess both the details of the texts and entire texts within their relevant contexts. All the papers deal with data from the history of English, and they cover a wide range from Old English manuscripts to Early Modern English letters and medical texts to Late Modern English cant vocabulary.