Medical Writing in Early Modern English
By: edited by Irma Taavitsainen and Päivi Pahta
Contributors: Taavitsainen, Irma; Pahta, Päivi
Series: Studies in English language
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780521117661
Subjects: History, Early Modern 1451-1600; English literature; History, 17th Century; Medical writing; History and criticism; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative; Writing; Medicine in Literature; Literature and medicine; Medicine; History
Description: "Medical writing tells us a great deal about how the language of science has developed in constructing and communicating knowledge in English. This volume provides a new perspective on the evolution of the special language of medicine, based on the electronic corpus of Early Modern English Medical Texts, containing over two million words of medical writing from 1500 to 1700. The book presents results from large-scale empirical research on the new materials and provides a more detailed and diversified picture of domain-specific developments than any previous book. Three introductory chapters provide the sociohistorical, disciplinary and textual frame for nine empirical studies, which address a range of key issues in a wide variety of medical genres from fresh angles. The book is useful for researchers and students within several fields, including the development of special languages, genre and register analysis, (historical) corpus linguistics, historical pragmatics, and medical and cultural history"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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