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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A look beyond the texts: the samples in the nineteenth-century Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts
(John Benjamins, 2021)
[Abstract] This chapter complements the previous one in that it deals with the nineteenth-century texts
we have included in the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts, CELiST, one of the corpora
in the Coruña Corpus of ...