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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Persuasion in English Philosophy Texts (CEPhiT)
(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 ... -
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 ... -
A Corpus of History Texts (CHET) as part of the Coruña Corpus Project
(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 ... -
Eighteenth-century scientific writing in the Coruña Corpus: English "cultivated by industrious and good hands"
(Universidad de La Laguna, Servicio de Publicaciones, 2015)[Abstract]This paper aims at comparing the use of classical terms in eighteenth scientific writing in English once the patterns of Scholasticism have been abandoned and the new methods brought about by Empiricism are ... -
Lexical Richness in Modern Writers: evidence from the Corpus of History English Texts
(Universidad de La Laguna, Servicio de Publicaciones, 2016)[Abstracts] This paper addresses the issue of lexical density and its popularity after the arrival of corpus linguistics and its methodology. In fact, this is now one of the most frequently used descriptive tools in the ... -
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 ... -
Linking ideas in women's writing: evidence from the Coruña Corpus
(Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, 2016)[Abstract]This paper provides an overview of some rhetorical devices found in scientific works by late Modern English women. We will focus on apparently marginal linguistic elements as devices fundamental for the expression ... -
The might of ‘might’: A mitigating strategy in eighteenth and nineteenth century female scientific discourse
(Universidad de La Laguna, 2016)[Abstract] Apart from the practical function of efficiently exchanging knowledge, scientific writing is also used to convey persuasion by using a number of pragmatic strategies that help authors gain acceptance for their ... -
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 ... -
Genre and change in the Corpus of History English Texts
(Göteborg University, 2017)[Abstract] This paper provides an overview of the Corpus of History English Texts, one of the component parts of the Coruña Corpus of English Scientific Writing (Moskowich and Crespo 2012), looking in particular at the ... -
MuStE: the Dimensions of Linguistic Research at UDC
(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 ... -
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 ... -
‘A matter both of curioſity and uſefulneſs’: Compiling the Corpus of English Texts on Language
(Asociación Española de Lingüística de Corpus, 2019)[Abstract] This paper describes the compilation of CETeL, the subcorpus on ‘Language and Linguistics’ in the Coruña Corpus of English Scientific Writing, and discusses the various challenges encountered during the process ... -
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 ... -
“Arguments That Could Possibly Be Urged”: Modal Verbs and Tentativeness in the Coruña Corpus
(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 ... -
The Coruña Corpus of English Scientific Writing: Challenge and Reward
(Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos (Aedean), 2020)[Abstract] Short description of the (hi)story of the Coruña Corpus and its Project since its inception. -
There are differences between scientific and non-scientific English indeed: a case study
(Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague, 2020)[Abstracts] This study considers the behaviour of one specific stance adverb, indeed. In a previous analysis of scientific texts, indeed was found to be one of the most frequently used adverbs in the expression of emphatic ...