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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. ...
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 ...