Im Vorwort als Dritter Teil von "Corpus of early English medical writing" bezeichnet. Folgt auf "Middle English Medical Texts" und "Early modern English medical texts"
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...
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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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Päivi Pahta and Irma Taavitsainen: 1. An interdisciplinary approach to medical writing in Early Modern English
Irma Taavitsainen, Peter Murray Jones, Päivi Pahta, Turo Hiltunen, Ville Marttila, Maura Ratia, Carla Suhr and Jukka Tyrkkö: 2. Medical texts in 1500-1700 and the corpus of Early Modern English Medical Texts
Peter Murray Jones: 3. Medical literacies and medical culture in early modern England
Turo Hiltunen and Jukka Tyrkkö: 4. Verbs of knowing: discoursive practices in early modern vernacular medicine
Rod McConchie and Anne Curzan: 5. Defining in Early Modern English medical texts
Irma Taavitsainen: 6. Dissemination and appropriation of medical knowledge: humoral theory in Early Modern medical writing and lay texts
Päivi Pahta: 7. Code-switching in Early Modern English medical writing
Ville Marttila: 8. New arguments for new audiences: a corpus-based analysis of interpersonal strategies in Early Modern English medical recipes
Martti Mäkinen: 9. Efficacy phrases in Early Modern English medical recipes
Maura Ratia and Carla Suhr: 10. Medical pamphlets: controversy and advertising
Maurizio Gotti: 11. The development of specialized discourse in the Philosophical Transactions
Bethany Gray, Douglas Biber and Turo Hiltunen.: 12. The expression of stance in early (1665-1712) publications of the Philosophical Transactions and other contemporary medical prose: innovations in a pioneering discourse