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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 ...
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 ...
The Coruña Corpus Tool
(Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, 2007)
[Abstracts] The Coruña Corpus of scientific writing will be used for the diachronic study of scientific discourse from most linguistic levels and thereby contribute to the study of the historical development of English. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The making of the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts (CELiST), a bunch of disciplines
(John Benjamins, 2021)
[Abstract] Contrary to what happens with huge corpora automatically taken from the Internet by
crawlers, the compilation of a smaller specialised corpus is a time-consuming, carefully
planned task that must follow a ...
A look beyond the texts: The samples in the eighteenth-century Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts
(John Benjamins, 2021)
[Abstract] This chapter deals with the eighteenth-century texts we have included in the Corpus of
English Life Sciences Texts, CELiST, one of the corpora included in the Coruña Corpus of
English Scientific Writing. The ...