"All families and genera" : exploring the Corpus of English life sciences texts / edited by Isabel Moskowich, Inés Lareo, Gonzalo Camiña.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rioboo, Gonzalo Camiña, editor.

Lareo Martín, Inés, editor.

Moskowich, Isabel, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Corpus of English life sciences texts.

English literature--18th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.

Life sciences--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Life sciences.

Life sciences--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Life sciences literature--Great Britain--History and criticism.

Life sciences literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (328 pages)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2021]

Summary:

""All families and genera": Exploring the Corpus of English life sciences texts aims at exploring scientific writing in late modern English. This volume is the fourth of its kind devoted to the analysis of the relations between language and different scientific disciplines from 1700 to 1900. Here, forty texts on biology and related fields as compiled in the Corpus of English life sciences texts (CELiST) constitute the basis for the fifteen studies describing scientific discourse on both methodological issues, the period and the status of the discipline itself as well as pilot studies. CELiST is accompanied by an updated version of the Coruña Corpus Tool (CCT), a purpose-designed software. Both the tool and the corpus are freely accessible at the Repositorio Universidade Coruña: CCT at http://hdl.handle.net/2183/21850 and CELiST at https://ruc.udc.es/dspace/handle/2183/25720 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.17979/spudc.9788497497848). The book is addressed to an international readership. It is of interest for university libraries as well as other academic institutions/societies and individual scholars specialised in corpus linguistics and historical linguistics all over the world"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

"All families and genera"

Title page

Copyright page

Table of contents

About this book

Explorations of life sciences writing (1700-1900): A Preface

List of contributors

Chapter 1. The making of the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts (CELiST), a bunch of disciplines

1. Introduction: Biology or something else?

2. The structure of CELiST

3. The authors in CELiST

3.1 The sex of the authors

3.2 Geography

4. The texts in CELiST

4.1 The genres in CELiST

Works cited

Chapter 2. Editorial policy in the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts: Criteria, conventions, encoding and editorial marks

1. General remarks

1.1 Headers

1.2 Fonts

1.3 Page numbers

1.4 Chapter and section titles

1.5 Paragraphs and lines

1.6 Analysable items

1.7 Omissions and amendments

2. Mark-up language

2.1 Tags in CELiST

3. Editorial marks and decisions

3.1 Pages

3.2 Lines and paragraphs

3.3 Words

4. List of editorial marks used in CELiST

5. Concluding remarks

Acknowledgements

Chapter 3. A look beyond the texts: The samples in the eighteenth-century Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts

1. Introduction

2. The eighteenth-century samples in CELiST

1707. James Douglas, M. D.

1707. Sir Hans Sloane

1717. James Keill

1720. William Gibson

1723. Patrick Blair

1730. Thomas Boreman

1737. Elizabeth Blackwell

1737. John Brickell M. D.

1743. George Edwards

1750. Griffith Hughes

1752. James Solas Dodd

1758. William Borlase

1766. Thomas Pennant

1769. Edward Bancroft

1774. Oliver Goldsmith

1774. William Withering

1786. William Speechly

1789. James Bolton

1794. Edward Donovan

1795. Sir James Edward Smith

3. A note on the Appendix

Works cited.

Chapter 4. A look beyond the texts: The samples in the nineteenth-century Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts

2. Description of the nineteenth-century life sciences texts

1804. Maria Elizabetha Jacson

1808. Alexander Wilson

1816. Priscilla Wakefield

1819. Sir William Lawrence

1824. Edward Jenner

1828. John Davidson Godman

1832. Almira Hart Lincoln (Phelps)

1835. Sir William Jardine

1840. Anne Pratt

1848. Sir John Graham Dalyell

1859. Elizabeth (Cabot Cary) Agassiz

1859. Charles Robert Darwin

1863. Thomas Henry Huxley

1867. Herbert Spencer

1876. Alexander Macallister

1879. Phebe Lankester

1880. Francis Maitland Balfour

1889. Sir Francis Galton

1895. Emily Lovira Gregory

1898. Alpheus Spring Packard

Chapter 5. The Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts and representativeness: An information and documentation analysis of Late Modern English scientific Texts

2. The corpus and representativeness

3. Methodology

4. Findings and discussion

Qualitative representativeness

Quantitative representativeness

Chapter 6. Lexical fixedness within the field of Life Sciences in Late Modern English: Evidence from the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts

2. Corpus and methodology

3. The analysis

3.1 Structure variable

3.2 Chronological distribution

3.3 Genre variable

3.4 Semantic categorisation

3.5 Reversibility of components

4. Conclusions

Chapter 7. Engagement in the botanists of the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts: Flourishing female scientific writing

2. Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English botany

2.1 Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English botanists

2.2 Sources.

3. Directives in female and male botanists

4. Historical evolution of directives

5. Conclusion

Chapter 8. Linguistic indicators of persuasion in female authors in the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts

2. Women scientists, prefaces and persuasion

3. Material and methodology

4. Data analysis and discussion

4.1 Prefaces and bodies: General data

Chapter 9. Persuasion in English scientific writing: Exploring suasive verbs in the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts and posthumanism English texts

2. Persuasion, stance and suasive verbs in scientific writing

3. Corpus and methodology

4. Analysis of data

Chapter 10. "If you will take the trouble to inquire into it rather closely, I think you will find that it is not worth very much": Authorial presence through conditionals and citation sequences in late modern English life sciences texts

2. The author in the text in late modern English scientific writing

3. An overview on studies of authorial presence

4. Conditionals and authorial presence

5. Expressing opinions by means of citation sequences

6. Corpus and methodology

7. Analysis of the results

7.1 Conditionals

7.2 Citation sequences

8. Concluding remarks

Funding

Chapter 11. "This ingenious hypothe∫is hath a great appearance of truth": The expression of true facts in the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts

1. Introduction and objectives

2. On adverbs and examples: Expressing true facts in Life Sciences

3. Evidence in context: data from CELiST

4. "My views amount to the following": A brief analysis of the examples

Chapter 12. Evaluative that structures in the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts

2. Stance and evaluative-that

3. Method

4. Evaluative that-expressions: Analysis and results

4.1 Evaluative entity

4.2 Evaluative stance

4.3 Evaluative source

4.4 Expression

Chapter 13. Authority and deontic modals in Late Modern English: Evidence from the Corpus of Life Sciences Texts

2. Deontic modality

4. Deontic modals in CELiST

4.1 The form of deontic modals

4.2 The function of deontic modals

5. Conclusions

Chapter 14. A study of coherence relations in the English scientific register: Conjunctions in the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts

2. Methodology

2.1 Corpus description

2.2 Variables and procedure

3. Data analysis

3.1 Type of relation

3.2 Sex of author

3.3 Age of author

3.4 Place of education

3.5 Genre and level of specialisation

Appendix 1. Conjunctions not found in the corpus

Appendix 2. Conjunctions found in the corpus

Additive conjunctions

Causal conjunctions

Adversative conjunctions

Temporal conjunctions

Chapter 15. Spotting register-internal variation in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century life sciences: Descriptivemess and argumentation in the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts

2. Register variation and change in historical and scientific English

3. Methodology: The Multidimensional Analysis applied

4.1 Variation across time and disciplines

4.2 Variation across genres

4.3 Variation across male and female scientific discourse

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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