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Eighteenth century female authors: women and science in the Coruña Corpus of English Scientific Writing
(The Australian Linguistic Society, 2013)
[Abstract] This paper explores the use of linguistic features characteristic of impersonal or personal style in scientific writing by female authors in the eighteenth century. Variables such as discipline, subject-matter ...
Pronouns as stance markers in the Coruña Corpus : an analysis of the CETA, CEPhiT and CHET.
(Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, 2017)
[Abstract] It is now widely accepted that knowledge is negotiated and negotiation implies involvement on the part of both readers and writers. Since there seems to be some connection between involvement and stancetaking ...
At close range: prefaces and other text types in the Coruña Corpus of English Scientific Writing
(Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Servicio de Publicaciones y Difusión Científica, 2016)
[Abstract] What we nowadays term “front matter” was conceived of in the past as a direct address to the reader. Over time, standard formulae were developed and certain rhetorical devices consolidated. Late modern authors ...
Involved In Writing Science: Nineteenth-Century Women in the Coruña Corpus
(Center for Promoting Ideas, 2015)
[Abstract]The aim of this work is to offer an overview of female scientific writing in English in the nineteenth century. In particular, we want to focus on the analysis of the more or less informational style of texts ...
How intimate was the tone of female History writing in the Modern period? Evidence from the Corpus of History English Texts
(John Benjamins, 2019)
[Abstract] This paper is concerned with female authors and the attitude to their topics, as conveyed
through their writing. Late Modern as well as twentieth- and twenty-first century scholarly
writing has been said to ...