| Contents |
Explorations of life sciences writing (1700-1900) : A preface -- The making of the Corpus of English life sciences texts (CELiST), a bunch of disciplines / Isabel Moskowich -- Editorial policy in the Corpus of English life sciences texts : Criteria, conventions, encoding and editorial marks / Gonzalo Camiña -- A look beyond the texts : the samples in the eighteenth-century Corpus of English life sciences texts / Inés Lareo and Isabel Moskowich -- A look beyond the texts : the samples in the nineteenth-century Corpus of English life sciences texts / Inés Lareo and Isabel Moskowich -- The Corpus of English life sciences texts and representativeness : an information and documentation analysis of Late Modern English scientific Texts / Elena Alfaya Lamas -- Lexical fixedness within the field of life sciences in late modern English : evidence from the Corpus of English life sciences texts / Magdalena Bator -- Engagement in the botanists of the Corpus of English life sciences texts : flourishing female scientific writing / Margarita Mele-Marrero -- Linguistic indicators of persuasion in female authors in the Corpus of English life sciences texts / Begoña Crespo -- Persuasion in English scientific writing : exploring suasive verbs in the Corpus of English life sciences texts and posthumanism English texts / Anabella Barsaglini-Castro -- "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 / Luis Puente-Castelo -- "This ingenious hypothesis hath a great appearance of truth" : the expression of true facts in the Corpus of English life sciences texts / María José Esteve Ramos -- Evaluative that structures in the Corpus of English life sciences texts / Francisco Alonso-Almeida and Francisco J. Álvarez-Gil -- Authority and deontic modals in late modern English : evidence from the Corpus of life sciences texts / Francisco J. Álvarez-Gil -- A study of coherence relations in the English scientific register : conjunctions in the Corpus of English life sciences texts / Iria Bello Viruega and Elisa Narváez García -- Spotting register-internal variation in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century life sciences : descriptiveness and argumentation in the Corpus of English life sciences texts / Leida Maria Monaco. |
| Abstract |
""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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2021020976 |
| ISBN | 9789027209245 (hardback) |
| ISBN | (pdf) |
