عنوان

Medical Writing in Early Modern English /

(Number (ISBN

0521117666

(Number (ISBN

9780521117661

Number

b528460

Title Proper

Medical Writing in Early Modern English /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Irma Taavitsainen and Päivi Pahta

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Cambridge :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Cambridge University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2011, c2011.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xix, 300 pages, 10 pages of plates :

Other Physical Details

illustrations ;

Dimensions

24 cm

Series Title

STUDIES IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 264-293) and index

Text of Note

"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 two 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"--

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

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

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

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

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

History, 17th Century-- Great Britain

History, Early Modern 1451-1600-- Great Britain

Medicine-- Great Britain

Medicine in Literature-- Great Britain

Writing-- history-- Great Britain

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Class number

Class number

Pahta, Päivi

Taavitsainen, Irma

Date of Transaction

20110607023645.0

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