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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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Stance in the corpus of English life sciences texts: A vindication of text-reading
(Universitat Jaume I, 2023)
[Abstract] Stance in academic writing has been discussed extensively within the fields of discourse analysis andpragmatics (Alonso-Almeida, 2015; Hyland,2005; White, 2003). Thus, Hyland and Jiang (2016) identify certain ...