Medical Writing in Early Modern English

Herausgeber: Pahta, Päivi; Taavitsainen, Irma

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Produktbeschreibung

A new view on the evolution of the language of medicine based on a large electronic corpus of medical texts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 619g
• ISBN-13: 9780521117661
• ISBN-10: 0521117666
• Artikelnr.: 32203797

Inhaltsangabe

1. An interdisciplinary approach to medical writing in early modern English
Päivi Pahta and Irma Taavitsainen; 2. Medical texts in 1500-1700 and the
corpus of early modern English medical texts Irma Taavitsainen, Peter
Murray Jones, Päivi Pahta, Turo Hiltunen, Ville Marttila, Maura Ratia,
Carla Suhr and Jukka Tyrkkö; 3. Medical literacies and medical culture in
early modern England Peter Murray Jones; 4. Verbs of knowing: discoursive
practices in early modern vernacular medicine Turo Hiltunen and Jukka
Tyrkkö; 5. Defining in early modern English medical texts Rod McConchie and
Anne Curzan; 6. Dissemination and appropriation of medical knowledge:
humoral theory in early modern medical writing and lay texts Irma
Taavitsainen; 7. Code-switching in early modern English medical writing
Päivi Pahta; 8. New arguments for new audiences: a corpus-based analysis of
interpersonal strategies in early modern English medical recipes Ville
Marttila; 9. Efficacy phrases in early modern English medical recipes
Martti Mäkinen; 10. Medical pamphlets: controversy and advertising Maura
Ratia and Carla Suhr; 11. The development of specialized discourse in the
Philosophical Transactions Maurizio Gotti; 12. The expression of stance in
early (1665-1712) publications of the Philosophical Transactions and other
contemporary medical prose: innovations in a pioneering discourse Bethany
Gray, Douglas Biber and Turo Hiltunen.