ENGLISH

Medical Writing in Early Modern English

By Irma Taavitsainen , Paivi Pahta

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2011
ISBN
0521117666, 9780521117661
Google Books ID
JI8ZDwfcalQC
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6108162 bytes)
Series
Studies in English Language
Edition
1
Pages
321\321
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00
Языки и языкознание;Английский язык;Для специалист

Description

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.

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