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"Of medicineз sedatyueз": Some notes on adjective position and oral register in Middle English medical texts
No full textThe position of adjectives in the English Noun Phrase is regarded as something quite fixed and
pertaining to the level of syntax rather than to any other. In previous studies (Moskowich 2002;
Moskowich – Crespo 2002; Lareo – Moskowich 2009), it has been shown, however, that there
seem to be some other extra-syntactic variables at stake determining word-order patterns.
This paper aims at analysing the word-order patterns of adjectives in the emerging scientific
writing in the Middle Ages, particularly in medical texts written in English. To this end,
several texts contained in MEMT (Middle English Medical Texts) will be analysed. As a first
approach, samples belonging to the three different traditions included in the Corpus will be considered.
This examination of samples from a surgical text, a specialised one and a remedy book
will also help obtain some conclusions regarding the evolution in the use of the so called French type
adjectives in the language
“Of medicines sedatives”: some notes on adhective position
No full textThe position of adjectives in the English Noun Phrase is regarded as something quite fixed and
pertaining to the level of syntax rather than to any other. In previous studies (Moskowich 2002;
Moskowich – Crespo 2002; Lareo – Moskowich 2009), it has been shown, however, that there
seem to be some other extra-syntactic variables at stake determining word-order patterns.
This paper aims at analysing the word-order patterns of adjectives in the emerging scientific
writing in the Middle Ages, particularly in medical texts written in English. To this end,
several texts contained in MEMT (Middle English Medical Texts) will be analysed. As a first
approach, samples belonging to the three different traditions included in the Corpus will be considered.
This examination of samples from a surgical text, a specialised one and a remedy book
will also help obtain some conclusions regarding the evolution in the use of the so called Frenchtype
adjectives in the language.Galicia. Consellería de Educación e Coordenación Universitaria, PGIDIT07PXIB104160PRMinisterio de Ciencia e Innovación; FFI2008-01649/FIL
Personal Pronouns in CHET and CECheT: Authorial Presence and Other Nuances Revealed
No full text[Abstract] This paper aims at presenting a portrait of late Modern English scientific writing by studying its use of first-person pronouns. Pronouns reveal authorial presence and their quantification may be helpful. Following previous research (Moskowich, 2017), I have now conducted a qualitative analysis in which pronouns are grouped according to five functions each of them with a different pragmatic value. My research questions include whether there is a tendency from author-centred to object-centred prose over time, whether female writers are more present in their writings than their male counterparts and whether texts belonging to the Humanities (represented here by the Corpus of History English Texts) are also more “subjective” than those belonging to the Hard Sciences (represented by the Corpus of English Chemistry Texts), generally regarded more “objective” and, therefore, more unlikely to contain a high amount of personal pronouns and more so with certain pragmatic functions. The use of variables such as time, sex of the author and discipline allow for a study of change on the one hand and of variation on the other.Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad; FFI2016-75599-
The Coruña Corpus Tool
No full textEl Coruña Corpus de documentos científicos será usado para el estudio
diacrónico del discurso científico en la mayoría de los niveles lingüísticos, contribuyendo
de esta forma al estudio del desarrollo histórico del inglés. El Coruña Corpus
Tool es un sistema de recuperación de información que permite compilar conocimiento
sobre el corpus.The Coruña Corpus of scientific writing will be used for the diachronic
study of scientific discourse from most linguistic levels and thereby contribute to
the study of the historical development of English. The Coruña Corpus Tool is an
information retrieval system that allows the extraction of knowledge from the corpus.The research which is here reported
on has been funded by the Xunta de Galicia
through its Dirección Xeral de Investigación e Desenvolvemento,
grant number PGIDIT03PXIB10402PR
(supervised by Isabel Moskowich-Spiegel). This grant
is hereby gratefully acknowledged. The first author
also has to acknowledge the funds of the “Secretaría
de Estado de Universidades e Investigación” and FEDER
(MEC TIN2005-08521-C02-02) and “Xunta de
Galicia”(PGIDIT06 PXIC10501PN)
Writing history in Late Modern English: explorations of the Coruña corpus/ edited by Isabel Moskowich, Begoña Crespo, Luis Puente-Castelo, Leida Maria Monaco.
No full textIncludes bibliographical references and index."This volume focuses on the relationship and interaction of language and science between 1700 and 1900. It pays particular attention to English history writing in Late Modern English as compiled in the Corpus of History English Texts (CHET), a newly released subcorpus of the Coruña Corpus of English Scientific Writing. The chapters cover methodological issues, the period and the status of discipline itself, as well as pilot studies for the description of scientific discourse using CHET. They embrace topics in several linguistic fields: discourse analysis, syntax, semantics, morphosyntax. The studies take into account extralinguistic parameters of texts, such as year of publication, sex of the author, geographical provenance of authors and the communicative formats/genres to which the text sample belongs. In the particular case of CHET, the collected samples can be grouped in eight different categories and such categories, as well as the above-mentioned metadata information, can be used to search the corpus. The Corpus of History English Texts (CHET), accompanied by the Coruña Corpus Tool (CCT) purpose-designed software by IrLab, is accessible online at the Repositorio Universidade Coruña at http://hdl.handle.net/2183/21849"--Writing history in Late Modern English: explorations of the Coruña Corpus : a preface / Javier Pérez Guerra -- A review of the development of historical writing and writers in English from 1700 to 1900 / Elena Alfaya Lamas -- "There were always Indians passing to and fro" : notes on the representation of Native Americans in CHET documents / Marina Dossena -- An introduction to CHET, the Corpus of History English Texts / Isabel Moskowich -- Typical linguistic patterns of English history texts from the eighteenth to the nineteenth century : an information-theoretic approach / Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Katrin Menzel and Elke Teich -- Exploring the narrative dimension in Late Modern English history texts / Leida Maria Monaco -- Time and history : a preliminary approach to binomials in late Modern English astronomy and history texts / Paloma Núñez Pertejo -- "Were this efitimation, however, to be depended on": inversion conditionals as evidence of paradigmatic change in CHET / Luis Puente-Castelo -- Modal verb categories in CHET / Francisco Alsono-Almeida and Francisco J. Álvarez Gil -- A corpus-based study of some certainty adverbs in the Corpus of History English Texts / Maria Jose Esteve Ramos and Ines Lareo -- How intimate was the tone of female history writing in the Modern period? evidence from the Corpus of History English Texts / Begoña Crespo -- Neither I nor we: inexplicit authorial voice in eighteenth century academic texts / Margarita Mele Marrero -- Do writers express the same attitude in historical genres? a contrastive analysis of attitude devices in the Corpus of History English Texts / María Luisa Carrió-Pastor -- On cognitive complexity in scientific discourse: a corpus-based study on additive coherence relations / Iria Bello Viruega.1 online resource (vi, 278 pages
Multimodalumas istoriniuose tekstuose: paratekstinių bruožų vertė kuriant Coruña Corpus (CC)
No full textIn this article, we explain how the project of the Coruña Corpus of English Scientific Writing (CC) included non-linguistic elements in the corpus design from the very inception of the project, which allow for the analysis of paratextual devices such as layout, punctuation, decoration, and/or other visual language, this in order to explore how a text interacts with its context and hence how such aspects of a work are also important and meaningful in themselves. These elements are key to an understanding of how texts were perceived by their contemporary audiences, and can only be fully appreciated by considering their meaning to the reader. The considerable time and effort involved in the compilation of these minute details in the CC reflects the belief that paratextual features in the Late Modern English period can be considered vectors of additional meaning, and hence need to be included when designing and studying the linguistic material of the period. Multimodality, a current trend in various forms of linguistic analysis, provides the appropriate and necessary framework for the way we work with historical corpora and has the potential to open up new and enriching avenues of research
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Daughter of fortune: Isabel Allende's popularity from a readership perspective
No full textThe primary aim of this thesis is to explore and critically interrogate Isabel Allende’s popularity cross-culturally in Britain and Spain. It analyses readers’ responses to Allende’s works as well as the discourses surrounding her public representation, an approach that is ‘readerly’ but must also take account of production and text. This approach is intended to further the understanding of Allende’s work which so far has always been analysed from a textual perspective. However, the relationship between Allende’s popularity, her texts, public representation and readers has not been yet analysed in detail.This thesis is innovative in other ways too. Methodologically, it approaches readers through the under studied cultural form of the reading group. It also incorporates a comparative dimension by looking at the reception of Allende in two different cultural contexts: the British and Spanish respectively. Finding out about Allende’s popularity has involved asking readers about their reading experiences as well as analysing the production of discourses around her public representation. Paul Ricoeur’s (1984, 1988) perspective on authorial intentions and readers’ responses to texts helps in understanding the intricacies surrounding what is involved in reading any text. It draws attention to Allende’s and her publishers’ authorial strategies, her ‘strategies of persuasion’ and the specificity of the lives and contexts of British and Spanish reading publics. Equally, this ‘readerly’ approach draws on feminist audience research and primarily on the work of Ien Ang and Janice Radway. Their work with viewers and readers respectively is particularly useful in establishing and developing methodological parameters for the study of reading groups. As a whole, this thesis contributes to the understanding of Allende’s cross-cultural popularity by situating readers at the centre
CETA
No full text[Description] To use the Corpus of English Texts on Astronomy (CETA) you must download the software Coruña Corpus Tool (http://hdl.handle.net/2183/21850).The Corpus of English Texts on Astronomy (CETA) is part of the Coruña Corpus of English Scientific Writing (CC). As a specialised corpus, CETA has been compiled for the description of English Astronomy writing between 1700 and 1900, from a synchronic and diachronic perspective. All text files in CETA are accompanied by a metadata file with extensive information about the text sampled and its author's sociolinguistic background. Samples can be filtered according to certain parameters contained in the metadata filesThis is a re-issue of CETA, first published on CD-Rom by John Benjamins as a companion to the volume: Moskowich, Isabel and Crespo, Begoña (eds.), 2012, "Astronomy Playne and Simple". The writing of science between 1700 and 1900. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/z.173
Please note this present license applies to the re-issued Corpus only, and NOT to the book accompanying it.The corpus was compiled also thanks to the collaboration of the following people: Nuria Bello Piñón, María José Esteve Ramos, Marta González Orta, Irma González Souto, Emma Lezcano González, Paula Lojo Sandino.[Descrición] Para usar o Corpus of English Texts on Astronomy (CETA), debe descargar o software Coruña Corpus Tool (http://hdl.handle.net/2183/21850).O Corpus of English Texts on Astronomy (CETA) fai parte do Coruña Corpus of English Scientific Writing (CC). Como corpus especializado que é, CETA foi compilado co obxectivo de permitir a descrición da produción escrita sobre astronomía en inglés entre os anos 1700 e 1900, desde un punto de vista tanto sincrónico como diacrónico. Cada mostra de texto de CETA está acompañada dun arquivo de metadatos con información sobre o texto e o perfil sociolingüístico do seu autor. As mostras poden ser seleccionadas de acordo cos parámetros contidos nestes arquivos de metadatos.Esta é unha re-edición de CETA, publicado por primeira vez en CD-Rom por John Benjamins como complemento do libro: Moskowich, Isabel and Crespo, Begoña (eds.), 2012, "Astronomy Playne and Simple". The writing of science between 1700 and 1900. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/z.173.
A presente licencia aplícase á re-edición do corpus e NON ao libro.O corpus foi recopilado coa colaboración das seguintes persoas:: Nuria Bello Piñón, María José Esteve Ramos, Marta González Orta, Irma González Souto, Emma Lezcano González, Paula Lojo Sandino.[Descripción] Para usar el Corpus of English Texts on Astronomy (CETA), debe descargar el software Coruña Corpus Tool (http://hdl.handle.net/2183/21850).El Corpus of English Texts on Astronomy (CETA) forma parte del Coruña Corpus of English Scientific Writing (CC). CETA, como corpus especializado, fue compilado con el objetivo de permitir la descripción de la producción escrita sobre astronomía en inglés entre los años 1700 y 1900, desde un punto de vista tanto sincrónico como diacrónico. Cada muestra de texto de CETA está acompañada de un archivo de metadatos con información sobre el texto y el perfil sociolingüístico de su autor. Las muestras se pueden seleccionar de acuerdo con parámetros incluidos en estos archivos de metadatos.Esta es una re-edición de CETA, publicado por primera vez en CD-Rom por John Benjamins como complemento del libro: Moskowich, Isabel and Crespo, Begoña (eds.), 2012, "Astronomy Playne and Simple". The writing of science between 1700 and 1900. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/z.173.
La presente licencia se aplica a la re-edición del corpus y NO al libro.El corpus fue recopilado con la colaboración de las siguientes personas: Nuria Bello Piñón, María José Esteve Ramos, Marta González Orta, Irma González Souto, Emma Lezcano González, Paula Lojo Sandino.Xunta de Galicia; PGIDIT03PXIB10402PRXunta de Galicia; PGIDIT07PXIB104160PRMinisterio de Ciencia e Innovación; FI2008-01649http://hdl.handle.net/2183/21850https://doi.org/10.1075/z.17
Patterns of english scientific writing in the 18th Century: adjectives and other Building-blocks
No full text[Abstract] It is often claimed that the written register tends to reflect a nominal style, in which nouns, phrases and adjectives abound, whereas a verbal style, containing higher proportions of verbs, complement clauses and adverbs, among others, is typical of the oral register (Sager et al, 1980; Biber, 2008). Another feature of the written register, and particularly of scientific writing, is that the vocabulary is in general characterised by its specificity and a tendency to have non-Germanic, classical origins (Moskowich, 2008). These two factors, the nominal style and the nature of the vocabulary, may be said to be typical of English scientific writing. This observation is usually made of present day English. It is the aim of this study to ascertain whether written scientific texts adhered to such a pattern in the past, looking at English astronomy texts produced throughout the 18th century and contained in CETA (Corpus of English Texts on Astronomy). My specific focus will be on attributive adjectives as elements indexical of that nominal style.
At the same time, I will try to explore how this nominal style is reflected in the nature of adjectives as regards adjectival suffixation and the etymological origin of suffixes in scientific writing, as well as in the genres to which the different text samples have been assigned
The Lexical Scandinavian Element in Early Modern English: Some Preliminary Considerations
No full text[Abstract] The aim of this paper is to compare the behaviour of Scandinavian loan-words in Early Modern English with the one they exhibited in Middle English. For this purpose, two corpora have been used: the EModE section of the computerized Helsinki Corpus and the ME corpus in Moskowich (1993), as these are representative of the language of both periods. Section 1 examines the features characterizing the corpora and also the variables studied, namely grammatical category, chronological subperiod, text-type and semantic field. The second section focuses on the statistical data emanating from the analysis of the corpus. A comparison between the behaviour of scandinavisms in ME and EModE is made in section 3. Finally, the hypothesis that the distribution of scandinavisms becomes less marked in EModE as regards text-types and semantic fields is confirmed by statistical data and examples drawn from both corpora
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