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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 ...
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 ...
Different Paths for Words and Money: The Semantic Field of Commerce and Finance in Middle English
(Rodopi, 2007)
[Abstract] Our aim in this paper is to examine the relationship between society and language change. Development such as the discovery of new territories and the introduction of new and exotic products and practices are ...
An introduction to CHET, the Corpus of History English Texts
(John Benjamins, 2019)
[Abstract] The chapter presents the different methodological issues and the theoretical decisions made
when facing the compilation of a corpus of texts dealing with History for the late Modern English
period. The first ...
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 ...