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<DIV>'ASTRONOMY PLAYNE AND SIMPLE':THE WRITING OF SCIENCE BETWEEN 1700 AND 1900<BR></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV>Edited by Isabel Moskowich and Begoña Crespo</DIV>
<DIV>University of A Coruña</DIV>
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<DIV>John Benjamins Publishing Company</DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN>[<A href="http://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/z" target=_blank>Not in series</A>, 173] 2012. xi, 240 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)</SPAN><BR></DIV>
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<DIV><A href="http://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/z.173/main" target=_blank>http://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/z.173/main</A></DIV>
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<DIV><EM>Hardbound: Available</EM></DIV>
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<DIV style="FLOAT: left"><EM><BR></EM></DIV><SPAN><BR></SPAN><EM><SPAN>e-Book</SPAN> – <SPAN>Forthcoming</SPAN> <BR></EM></DIV>
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<H3 class=bksubtitle2>Including CD-Rom: A Corpus of English Texts on Astronomy (CETA)</H3>
<DIV class=bkauthor>Compiled by Isabel Moskowich, Inés Lareo, Gonzalo Camiña Rioboo and Begoña Crespo</DIV>
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<DIV class=bkauthor>The <EM>Corpus of English Texts on Astronomy</EM> (CETA) is part of the <EM>Coruña Corpus of English Scientific Writing</EM> (CC). <EM>CETA</EM> has been compiled for the description of English Astronomy writing between 1700 and 1900, from a synchronic and a diachronic perspective.</DIV></SPAN>Since the <EM>CC</EM> was designed in 2003 with a sampling method by which extracts of 10,000 words were selected, this method has been followed in <EM>CETA</EM>, with samples from 42 different authors both from Europe and North America. Some extralinguistic parameters, such as year of publication, sex, geographical provenance and text-types/genres have been considered for text selection. According to late Modern English text typology, the samples in <EM>CETA</EM> can be grouped in eight different categories and such categories, as well as some other metadata information, can be used to search the corpus.</DIV>
<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 1.5em; CLEAR: both"><EM>CETA</EM> is released on CD-Rom with <EM>Coruña Corpus Tool</EM> (CCT), purpose-designed software by IrLab. It is accompanied by the volume <EM>Astronomy ‘playne and simple’</EM>, which includes descriptions of some of the texts compiled in <EM>CETA</EM>, together with a number of pilot studies using these texts.</P></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN>-- <BR><SPAN name="x"></SPAN>Dr Isabel Moskowich<BR>Senior Lecturer<BR>Dept. of English Philology<BR>Universidade da Coruña<BR>15071 SPAIN<BR>Research Group: www.udc.es/grupos/muste<BR>MA & PhD programmes: www.imaes.eu/<BR><SPAN name="x"></SPAN><BR></SPAN></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></div></body></html>