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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 ...
Patterns of english scientific writing in the 18th Century: adjectives and other Building-blocks
(John Benjamins, 2012)
[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 ...
CETA as a tool for the study of Modern Astronomy in English
(John Benjamins, 2012)
[Abstract] Modern culture can be said to depend on writing to such an extent that if scientific knowledge is not written it simply does not exist (Hyland, 1998). It is easy to observe, when glancing through any more or ...
An introduction to CHET, the Corpus of History English Texts
(John Benjamins, 2019)
[Abstract] The chapter presents the different methodological issues and the theoretical decisions made
when facing the compilation of a corpus of texts dealing with History for the late Modern English
period. The first ...
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 ...