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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 ...
Medicine, Astronomy, affixes and others: an account of verb formation in some Early Scientific works
(Universidad de Oviedo, Servicio de Publicaciones, 2006)
[Abstract]The patterns of derivational morphology found in Middle English in general should, theoretically, coincide with those found in an emerging functional variety of English from the same period (scientific writing). ...
Stance is present in scientific writing, indeed. Evidence from the Coruña Corpus of English Scientific Writing
(Jan Kochanowski University Press, 2014)
[Abstract]Stance as a pragmatic feature has been discussed widely in recent years, although the analysis of its presence in the scientific register has been more limited. Stance is most clearly seen in the use of adverbs ...
Lop-webbe and henne cresse: morphological aspects of the scientific register in late Middle English
(De Gruyter, 2006)
[Abstract]The aim of the present paper is to present an approach to the vernacularisation of English scientific
texts with special attention to lexicon. Word-formation is a better indicator than other linguistic
levels ...
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 ...
The Golden Rule of Divine Philosophy exemplified in the Coruña Corpus of English Scientific Writing
(Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 2011)
[Abstract] The present paper aims at presenting a new sub-corpus of the Coruña Corpus of English Scientific Writing. The corpus is a compilation of scientific texts published between 1700 and 1900 and has been compiled by ...