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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Analising the Coruña Corpus: Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity Markers
(Adam Mickiewicz University, 2022)
[Abstract] This paper aims to analyse the concepts of subjectivity and intersubjectivity in scientific writing through the use of stance adverbs perhaps and possibly. These adverbs act as markers of the authors’ presence ...
‘A matter both of curioſity and uſefulneſs’: Compiling the Corpus of English Texts on Language
(Asociación Española de Lingüística de Corpus, 2019)
[Abstract] This paper describes the compilation of CETeL, the subcorpus on ‘Language and
Linguistics’ in the Coruña Corpus of English Scientific Writing, and discusses the various
challenges encountered during the process ...
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 ...
But be ſure you let it ſettle: Late Modern Authors’ Presence in English Scientific Texts
(The Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies (AEDEAN), 2024)
[Abstract] The use of pronouns shows the author’s intention to address the reading public or the presence of the target readership in texts. This paper focuses on second-person pronouns, which are especially revealing of ...