In:“All families and genera”: Exploring the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts
Edited by Isabel Moskowich, Inés Lareo and Gonzalo Camiña
[Not in series 237] 2021
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Published online: 10 September 2021
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Table of contents
About this bookVII
Explorations of life sciences writing (1700–1900): A PrefaceIX
Jeremy Smith
List of contributorsXI
Chapter 1.The making of the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts (CELiST), a bunch of
disciplines1
Isabel Moskowich
Chapter 2.Editorial policy in the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts: Criteria, conventions, encoding and editorial marks21
Gonzalo Camiña
Chapter 3.A look beyond the texts: The samples in the eighteenth-century Corpus of English Life Sciences
Texts39
Inés Lareo
Isabel Moskowich
Chapter 4.A look beyond the texts: The samples in the nineteenth-century Corpus of English Life Sciences
Texts71
Inés Lareo
Isabel Moskowich
Chapter 5.The Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts and representativeness: An information and documentation analysis of Late Modern English
scientific texts95
Elena Alfaya-Lamas
Chapter 6.Lexical fixedness within the field of Life Sciences in Late Modern
English: Evidence from the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts115
Magdalena Bator
Chapter 7.Engagement in the botanists of the Corpus of English Life Sciences
Texts: Flourishing female scientific writing133
Margarita Mele Marrero
Chapter 8.Linguistic indicators of persuasion in female authors in the Corpus of
English Life Sciences Texts147
Begoña Crespo
Chapter 9.Persuasion in English scientific writing: Exploring suasive verbs in the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts and
posthumanism English texts169
Anabella Barsaglini-Castro
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 texts189
Luis Puente-Castelo
Chapter 11.“This ingenious hypothe∫is hath a great appearance of truth”: The expression of true facts in the Corpus of English Life Sciences
Texts209
Maria José Esteve-Ramos
Chapter 12.Evaluative that structures in the Corpus of English Life
Sciences Texts227
Francisco Alonso-Almeida
Francisco J. Álvarez-Gil
Chapter 13.Authority and deontic modals in Late Modern English: Evidence from the corpus of life sciences texts249
Francisco J. Álvarez-Gil
Chapter 14.A study of coherence relations in the English scientific register: Conjunctions in the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts265
Iria Bello Viruega
Elisa Narváez García
Chapter 15.Spotting register-internal variation in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century
life sciences: Descriptiveness and argumentation in the Corpus of English Life Sciences
Texts289
Leida Maria Monaco
Index309
