Medical Writing in Early Modern English / Edited by Irma Taavitsainen, Päivi Pahta.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Taavitsainen, Irma.

Pahta, Päivi.

Series:

Cambridge books online.

Studies in English Language

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical writing--Great Britain--History--16th century.

Medical writing--Great Britain--History--17th century.

Literature and medicine--Great Britain--History--16th century.

Literature and medicine--Great Britain--History--17th century.

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

English literature.

Literature and medicine.

History.

Medical writing.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

PDF

Summary:

The aim of this series is to provide a framework for original studies of English, both present-day and past. All books are based securely on empirical research, and represent theoretical and descriptive contributions to our knowledge of national and international varieties of English, both written and spoken. The series covers a broad range of topics and approaches, including syntax, phonology, grammar, vocabulary, discourse, pragmatics and sociolinguistics, and is aimed at an international readership.

Medical writing tells us a great deal about how the language of science has developed in constructing and communicating knowledge in English. This volume provides a new perspective on the evolution of the special language of medicine, based on the electronic corpus of Early Modern English Medical Texts, containing over 2 million words of medical writing from 1500 to 1700. The book presents results from large-scale empirical research on the new materials and provides a more detailed and diversified picture of domain-specific developments than any previous book. Three introductory chapters provide the sociohistorical, disciplinary and textual frame for nine empirical studies, which address a range of key issues in a wide variety of medical genres from fresh angles. The book is useful for researchers and students within several fields, including the development of special languages, genre and register analysis, (historical) corpus linguistics, historical pragmatics, and medical and cultural history. Book jacket.

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ISBN:

9780511921193

9780521117661

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