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Corpus pragmatic studies on the history of medical discourse /

"The original studies in this volume provide new insights into the history of medical discourse across centuries in both professional and lay texts. The central themes deal with changes in medical writing in various societal and cultural contexts in search for best practices in corpus pragmatic...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hiltunen, Turo (Editor ), Taavitsainen, Irma (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2022]
Colección:Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 330.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Corpora, pragmatics, and historical medical discourse / Turo Hiltunen and Irma Taavitsainen
  • "A geography of names" : a genre analysis of nationality-driven names for venereal disease in seventeenth-century England / Tony McEnery and Helen Baker
  • Medical topics and style from 1500 to 2018 : a corpus-driven exploration / Gerold Schneider
  • Medical discourse in Late Modern English : insights from a multidisciplinary corpus of scientific journal articles / Katrin Menzel
  • Survival or death : Mine/my and thine/thy variation in Early Modern English medical writing / Terry Walker and Merja Kytö
  • Towards a local grammar of stance expression in Late Modern English medical writing / Turo Hiltunen
  • "Die Blumenzeit der Frau" : a corpus-based study of the development of medical references to menstruation in historical texts on herbology / Gohar Schnelle, Carolin Odebrecht, Anke Lüdeling, Laura Perlitz and Catharina Fisher
  • Language, labour and ideology : constructing epistemologies of childbirth in the first three centuries of English-language midwifery texts (1540-1800) / Richard J. Whitt
  • Unhappy patients and eminent physicians : the representation of patients and practitioners in Late Modern English medical writing / Anu Lehto
  • The discursive dynamics of personal experience narratives and medical advice in 18th-century British consultation letters : the case of Dr. William Cullen / Anna Franca Plastina
  • Communicating authority : self-mentions in early modern English medical narratives (1500-1700) / Karoliina Ollikainen
  • How old is old? The discourse of "good" ageing in nineteenth-century self-help medical texts / Kim Grego
  • The popularization of learned medicine in late seventeenth-century England : accommodating translation strategies and textual aspects / Giulia Rovelli.