31.214, Books: Late Modern English Medical Texts: Taavitsainen, Hiltunen (eds.)

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Subject: 31.214, Books: Late Modern English Medical Texts: Taavitsainen, Hiltunen (eds.)

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Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 13:45:01
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Late Modern English Medical Texts: Taavitsainen, Hiltunen (eds.)

 


Title: Late Modern English Medical Texts 
Subtitle: Writing medicine in the eighteenth century. Including the LMEMT Corpus 
Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/z.221 


Editor: Irma Taavitsainen
Editor: Turo Hiltunen

Hardback: ISBN:  9789027203229 Pages: 432 Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027203229 Pages: 432 Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027203229 Pages: 432 Price: Europe EURO 104.94


Abstract:

The eighteenth century in medicine is a fallow period lying between the
innovations of the Royal Society (1662–) with its new ways of doing science
and the nineteenth-century achievements of clinical and laboratory medicine.
The period deserves more attention, as the seeds of some modern approaches,
like statistics leading to probabilities, date from this century. This volume
provides a comprehensive description of the main developments in 1700–1800.
Its main focus is on language use in context, with stylistic variation
according to genres, authors and audiences. The volume is interdisciplinary:
the chapters chart changes and continuities and draw on corpus linguistics,
discourse analysis, history of medicine, digital humanities and computer
science, and all studies are based on the corpus of "Late Modern English
Medical Texts" (LMEMT). In addition, the volume contains a detailed
description of corpus categories focusing on chronological coverage of the
texts, criteria for inclusion, discourse forms, and background facts. The
volume concludes with a Manual of the corpus, providing information about
annotation conventions and examples of how the corpus can be used.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     Historical Linguistics
                     Pragmatics
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)


Written In: English  (eng)

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