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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
CETA in the context of the Coruña Corpus
(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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Morphologically complex nouns in english scientific: texts after empiricism
(Bern Open Publishing, 2010)
[Abstract] The present paper aims at providing a new viewpoint on the development of scientific writing as regards its lexicon following the introduction of the scientific method in England. Although it will not provide ...
The Golden Rule of Divine Philosophy exemplified in the Coruña Corpus of English Scientific Writing
(Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 2011)
[Abstract] The present paper aims at presenting a new sub-corpus of the Coruña Corpus of English Scientific Writing. The corpus is a compilation of scientific texts published between 1700 and 1900 and has been compiled by ...