How intimate was the tone of female History writing in the Modern period? Evidence from the Corpus of History English Texts
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How intimate was the tone of female History writing in the Modern period? Evidence from the Corpus of History English TextsAutor(es)
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Crespo, Begoña. 2019. “How intimate was the tone of female history writing in the Modern period? Evidence from the Corpus of History English Texts”. In Moskowich, Isabel; Begoña Crespo, Luis Puente-Castelo & Leida Maria Monaco (eds.) Writing history in Late Modern English: Explorations of the Coruña Corpus., 186–213.
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[Abstract] This paper is concerned with female authors and the attitude to their topics, as conveyed
through their writing. Late Modern as well as twentieth- and twenty-first century scholarly
writing has been said to be broadly objective in tone (Atkinson, 1999; Hyland, 2001; DontechevaNavrátilová, 2013), showing little or no trace of personal involvement. In recent times, however,
it has been claimed that such discourse is not as objective and detached as we might suppose
(Hyland, 2002) and that authors tend to express their thoughts and feelings through their texts
and make some kind of connection on an emotional level with their readership. Also, female
writing is said to present a more intimate tone than male writing (Argamon et al.; 2003, Biber
and Burges, 2000; Palander-Colin, 2006). In this work I will particularly explore the extent to
which the tone of Modern female history writing was intimate or involved, especially in
comparison to non-scholarly works by women written at the same time. To this end, I will
examine some of the linguistic strategies that have been recognised as indicators of authorial
presence (Biber, 1988; Quirk et al., 1985) and the reactions or feelings that can be aroused in the
readership. These linguistic strategies will be further examined from the point of view of two
variables: time and communicative format.
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Late Modern English scientific discourse
Female history writing
Involvement
Authorial presence
Life Sciences
Communicative format
Female history writing
Involvement
Authorial presence
Life Sciences
Communicative format
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9789027204240