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“All families and genera”
Exploring the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts
“All families and genera”: Exploring the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts aims at exploring scientific writing in late Modern English. This volume is the fourth of its kind devoted to the analysis of the relations between language and different scientific disciplines from 1700 to 1900. Here, forty texts on biology and related fields as compiled in the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts (CELiST) constitute the basis for the fifteen studies describing scientific discourse on methodological issues, the period and the status of the discipline itself as well as pilot studies.
CELiST is accompanied by an updated version of the Coruña Corpus Tool (CCT), a purpose-designed software. Both the tool and the corpus are freely accessible at the Repositorio Universidade Coruña: CCT at http://hdl.handle.net/2183/21850and CELiST at https://ruc.udc.es/dspace/handle/2183/25720(DOI: https://doi.org/10.17979/spudc.9788497497848).
The book is addressed to an international readership. It is of interest for university libraries as well as other academic institutions/societies and individual scholars specialised in corpus linguistics and historical linguistics all over the world.
CELiST is accompanied by an updated version of the Coruña Corpus Tool (CCT), a purpose-designed software. Both the tool and the corpus are freely accessible at the Repositorio Universidade Coruña: CCT at http://hdl.handle.net/2183/21850and CELiST at https://ruc.udc.es/dspace/handle/2183/25720(DOI: https://doi.org/10.17979/spudc.9788497497848).
The book is addressed to an international readership. It is of interest for university libraries as well as other academic institutions/societies and individual scholars specialised in corpus linguistics and historical linguistics all over the world.
[Not in series, 237] 2021. xv, 310 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 12 August 2021
Published online on 12 August 2021
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
- About this book | pp. vii–viii
- Explorations of life sciences writing (1700–1900): A Preface
- List of Contributors | pp. xi–xvi
- Chapter 1. The making of the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts (CELiST), a bunch of disciplinesIsabel Moskowich | pp. 1–20
- Chapter 2. Editorial policy in the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts: Criteria, conventions, encoding and editorial marksGonzalo Camiña | pp. 21–38
- Chapter 3. A look beyond the texts: The samples in the eighteenth-century Corpus of English Life Sciences TextsInés Lareo and Isabel Moskowich | pp. 39–70
- Chapter 4. A look beyond the texts: The samples in the nineteenth-century Corpus of English Life Sciences TextsInés Lareo and Isabel Moskowich | pp. 71–94
- Chapter 5. The Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts and representativeness: An information and documentation analysis of Late Modern English scientific TextsElena Alfaya-Lamas | pp. 95–114
- Chapter 6. Lexical fixedness within the field of Life Sciences in Late Modern English: Evidence from the Corpus of English Life Sciences TextsMagdalena Bator | pp. 115–132
- Chapter 7. Engagement in the botanists of the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts: Flourishing female scientific writingMargarita Mele-Marrero | pp. 133–146
- Chapter 8. Linguistic indicators of persuasion in female authors in the Corpus of English Life Sciences TextsBegoña Crespo | pp. 147–168
- Chapter 9. Persuasion in English scientific writing: Exploring suasive verbs in the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts and Posthumanism English TextsAnabella Barsaglini-Castro | pp. 169–188
- Chapter 10. “If you will take the trouble to inquire into it rather closely, I think you will find that it is not worth very much”: Authorial presence through conditionals and citation sequences in late modern English life sciences textsLuis Puente-Castelo | pp. 189–208
- Chapter 11. “This ingenious hypothe∫is hath a great appearance of truth”: The expression of true facts in the Corpus of English Life Sciences TextsMaría José Esteve-Ramos | pp. 209–226
- Chapter 12. Evaluative that structures in the Corpus of English Life Sciences TextsFrancisco Alonso-Almeida and Francisco J. Álvarez-Gil | pp. 227–248
- Chapter 13. Authority and deontic modals in Late Modern English: Evidence from the Corpus of Life Sciences TextsFrancisco J. Álvarez-Gil | pp. 249–264
- Chapter 14. A study of coherence relations in the English scientific register: Conjunctions in the Corpus of English Life Sciences TextsIria Bello Viruega and Elisa Narváez García | pp. 265–288
- Chapter 15. Spotting register-internal variation in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century life sciences: Descriptiveness and argumentation in the Corpus of English Life Sciences TextsLeida Maria Monaco | pp. 289–308
- Index | pp. 309–310
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Esteve-Ramos, María José
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