LINGUIST List 30.4525
Fri Nov 29 2019
Books: Writing History in Late Modern English: Moskowich, Crespo, Puente-Castelo, Monaco (eds.)
Editor for this issue: Jeremy Coburn <jecoburnlinguistlist.org>
Date: 01-Nov-2019
From: Karin Plijnaar <karin.plijnaar
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Subject: Writing History in Late Modern English: Moskowich, Crespo, Puente-Castelo, Monaco (eds.)
E-mail this message to a friend Title: Writing History in Late Modern English
Subtitle: Explorations of the Coruña Corpus
Published: 2019
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Book URL:
https://benjamins.com/catalog/z.225 Editor: Isabel Moskowich
Editor: Begoña Crespo
Editor: Luis Puente-Castelo
Editor: Leida Maria Monaco
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027262011 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 158.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027262011 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 88.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027262011 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 105.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027204240 Pages: 278 Price: U.S. $ 158.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027204240 Pages: 278 Price: U.K. £ 88.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027204240 Pages: 278 Price: Europe EURO 111.30
Abstract:
This volume focuses on the relationship and interaction of language and science between 1700 and 1900. It pays particular attention to English History writing in late Modern English as compiled in the Corpus of History English Texts (CHET), a newly released sub-corpus of the Coruña Corpus of English Scientific Writing. The chapters cover methodological issues, the period and the status of the discipline itself, as well as pilot studies for the description of scientific discourse using CHET. They embrace topics in several linguistic fields: discourse analysis, syntax, semantics, morpho-syntax. The studies take into account extralinguistic parameters of texts, such as year of publication, sex of the author, geographical provenance of authors and the communicative formats/genres to which the text sample belongs. In the particular case of CHET, the collected samples can be grouped in eight different categories and such categories, as well as the above-mentioned metadata information, can be used to search the corpus. The book is of interest for scholars specialised in corpus linguistics and historical linguistics, as well as linguists in general. The metadata information used for analysis can also be of interest for historians and historians of science in particular.The Corpus of History English Texts (CHET), accompanied by the Coruña Corpus Tool (CCT), purpose-designed software by IrLab, is accessible online at the Repositorio Universidade Coruña at
http://hdl.handle.net/2183/21849 Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
Pragmatics
Text/Corpus Linguistics
Subject Language(s):
English (eng) Written In: English (eng)
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