Listar por autor "Crespo, Begoña"
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A Corpus of History Texts (CHET) as part of the Coruña Corpus Project
Crespo, Begoña; Moskowich, Isabel (St. Petersburgh State University, 2015)[Abstract] The aim of this paper is to offer a description of the Corpus of Historical English Texts (CHET), one of the several sub-corpora within the Coruña Corpus of English Scientific Writing (CC). The compilation ... -
Adjectival forms in Middle English: syntactic and semantic implications.
Moskowich, Isabel; Crespo, Begoña (Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2002)[Abstract] Our main purpose in this paper is to look into the place of adjectives in a particular period in the history of English as regards their position in the Noun Phrase and whether such position may somehow alter ... -
Analising the Coruña Corpus: Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity Markers
Crespo, Begoña (Adam Mickiewicz University, 2022)[Abstract] This paper aims to analyse the concepts of subjectivity and intersubjectivity in scientific writing through the use of stance adverbs perhaps and possibly. These adverbs act as markers of the authors’ presence ... -
“Arguments That Could Possibly Be Urged”: Modal Verbs and Tentativeness in the Coruña Corpus
Moskowich, Isabel; Crespo, Begoña (2019-07-22)[Abstract] This paper complements previous research into the late Modern English scientific writing uses of the adverbs possibly and perhaps as manifestations of either subjectivity or intersubjectivity, as presented in ... -
Astronomy, Philosophy, Life Sciences and History Texts: Setting the Scene for the Study of Modern Scientific Writing
Crespo, Begoña; Moskowich, Isabel (Routledge, 2020-06-12)[Abstract] The aim of this paper is to offer a description of four of the existing subcorpora of the Coruña Corpus of English Scientific Writing. Both the principles of compilation and the sociolinguistic variables considered ... -
At close range: prefaces and other text types in the Coruña Corpus of English Scientific Writing
Crespo, Begoña; Moskowich, Isabel (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 ... -
But be ſure you let it ſettle: Late Modern Authors’ Presence in English Scientific Texts
Crespo, Begoña; Moskowich, Isabel (The Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies (AEDEAN), 2024)[Abstract] The use of pronouns shows the author’s intention to address the reading public or the presence of the target readership in texts. This paper focuses on second-person pronouns, which are especially revealing of ... -
CETA in the context of the Coruña Corpus
Crespo, Begoña; Moskowich, Isabel (Oxford University Press, 2010)[Abstract] The Coruña Corpus (CC): a Collection of Samples for the Historical Study of English Scientific Writing is a project on which the MUSTE group has been working since 2003 in the University of A Coruña (Spain). It ... -
Classifying communicative formats in CHET, CECHeT and others
Moskowich, Isabel; Crespo, Begoña (EasyChair, 2016)[Abstract] This paper describes one of the concerns of corpus compilers when gathering samples of texts. In particular, it explores how to classify such samples in wider categories in the case of the Corpus of English ... -
Corpus of English Philosophy Texts (CEPhiT)
Moskowich, Isabel; Camiña-Rioboó, Gonzalo; Lareo, Inés; Crespo, Begoña (2018) -
Corpus of English Texts on Astronomy (CETA)
Moskowich, Isabel; Lareo, Inés; Camiña Rioboó, Gonzalo; Crespo, Begoña (2019) -
Different Paths for Words and Money: The Semantic Field of Commerce and Finance in Middle English
Moskowich, Isabel; Crespo, Begoña (Rodopi, 2007)[Abstract] Our aim in this paper is to examine the relationship between society and language change. Development such as the discovery of new territories and the introduction of new and exotic products and practices are ... -
How intimate was the tone of female History writing in the Modern period? Evidence from the Corpus of History English Texts
Crespo, Begoña (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 ... -
Involved In Writing Science: Nineteenth-Century Women in the Coruña Corpus
Crespo, Begoña; Moskowich, Isabel (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 ... -
Language Windowing through Corpora
Moskowich, Isabel; Crespo, Begoña; Lareo, Inés; Lojo Sandino, Paula (Universidade da Coruña, Servizo de Publicacións, 2021)[Abstract] The collection of essays we are presenting here are just a mere sample of the interest the topics relating to Corpus Linguistics have arisen everywhere. Such different topics as those related to Computational ... -
Linguistic indicators of persuasion in female authors in the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts
Crespo, Begoña (John Benjamins, 2021)[Abstract] In this work it is my aim to offer a description of the way in which women used linguistic devices denoting persuasion in samples that represent late Modern scientific writing, on the one hand, that is to say, ... -
Lop-webbe and henne cresse: morphological aspects of the scientific register in late Middle English
Moskowich, Isabel; Crespo, Begoña (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 ... -
Medicine, Astronomy, affixes and others: an account of verb formation in some Early Scientific works
Crespo, Begoña; Moskowich, Isabel (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). ... -
MuStE: the Dimensions of Linguistic Research at UDC
Moskowich, Isabel; Crespo, Begoña (Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos (Aedean), 2019)[Abstract] MuStE stands for Research Group for Multidimensional Corpus-based Studies in English. Of course, it is also an old-fashioned form of the verb must, which may reflect some of the characteristics of the people ... -
Persuasion in English Philosophy Texts (CEPhiT)
Crespo, Begoña; Moskowich, Isabel (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, 2015)[Abstract]The aim of this paper is to offer a description of the Corpus of English Philosophy Texts (CEPhiT) as well as to present a pilot study on persuasion strategies. Although this corpus contains samples from the ...