Corpus Pragmatic Studies On The History Of Medical Discourse

Author : Turo Hiltunen,Irma Taavitsainen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027257741

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Corpus Pragmatic Studies on the History of Medical Discourse by Turo Hiltunen,Irma Taavitsainen Pdf

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 pragmatics for future work. Some studies apply quantitative methods of corpus linguistics and Digital Humanities, others adopt a qualitative, discourse-analytical perspective, focusing on particular texts, authors or medical topics, or specific functionally-defined discourse forms such as narratives. Quantitative and qualitative approaches are mutually complementary and shed light on different aspects of historical medical discourse. The methodologies aim at establishing validity and reliability for pragmatic analysis, taking into account relevant contextual factors and insights from other fields, such as medical and social history, history of ideas, and science studies.

Author : Daniela Landert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781009237383

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Methods in Historical Corpus Pragmatics by Daniela Landert Pdf

Based on an extensive corpus-based study, this revealing book explores how epistemic stance is expressed in the early modern period, and in doing so, presents new methodologies for using corpora to investigate issues in historical pragmatics. It provides a new, corpus-driven method for the analysis of pragmatic functions that rely on context-dependent interpretations. By retrieving passages that include a high-density of the pragmatic function under investigation, the subsequent analysis can reveal previously neglected forms and context-dependent factors. It includes four empirical studies that apply the method to the analysis of epistemic stance in four Early Modern English corpora, the result of which emphasise the importance of context for the expression of stance. It also includes an appendix with inventories of Early Modern English stance expressions, offering starting points for further research studies. It is essential reading for researchers and students in historical pragmatics and corpus pragmatics.

Author : Irma Taavitsainen,Turo Hiltunen,Jeremy J. Smith,Carla Suhr
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781009117685

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Genre in English Medical Writing, 1500–1820 by Irma Taavitsainen,Turo Hiltunen,Jeremy J. Smith,Carla Suhr Pdf

Written by an interdisciplinary team of scholars, this book offers novel perspectives on the history of medical writing and scientific thought-styles by examining patterns of change and reception in genres, discourse, and lexis in the period 1500-1820. Each chapter demonstrates in detail how changing textual forms were closely tied to major multi-faceted social developments: industrialisation, urbanisation, expanding trade, colonialization, and changes in communication, all of which posed new demands on medical care. It then shows how these developments were reflected in a range of medical discourses, such as bills of mortality, medical advertisements, medical recipes, and medical rhetoric, and provides an extensive body of case studies to highlight how varieties of medical discourse have been targeted at different audiences over time. It draws on a wide range of methodological frameworks and is accompanied by numerous relevant illustrations, making it essential reading for academic researchers and students across the human sciences.

Author : Gavin Brookes,Luke C. Collins
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781003819790

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Corpus Linguistics for Health Communication by Gavin Brookes,Luke C. Collins Pdf

Corpus Linguistics for Health Communication provides an accessible and practical introduction to the use of corpus linguistics methods to analyse health-related language use across various contexts and genres. Offering a critical review of the field, discussion of extended case studies, and practical exercises based on spoken, written, and digital language data, this book: introduces the fields of health communication and corpus linguistics and critically reviews cutting-edge studies in the burgeoning area of corpus-based health communication; describes the processes involved in planning a corpus linguistics study of health communication, including designing and building a corpus, selecting tools, and implementing techniques of analysis; demonstrates how corpus linguistics methods can – and have – been applied to the study of spoken, written, and digital health communication, offering critical reflections and suggesting areas for future development. Corpus Linguistics for Health Communication is essential reading for those working at the interface of corpus linguistics and health communication. Both those with a little or a lot of experience in either field will find value in its pages.

Author : Irma Taavitsainen,Andreas H. Jucker,Jukka Tuominen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027270719

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Diachronic Corpus Pragmatics by Irma Taavitsainen,Andreas H. Jucker,Jukka Tuominen Pdf

Diachronic corpus pragmatics extends the pragmatic perspective to developments in the history of various languages and uses corpus-linguistic methods to trace them. The chapters in this volume focus on linguistic elements at several levels, from individual words to phrases, clauses and entire genres and discourse forms. Using the most recent corpus tools, the authors investigate correlations between forms, functions and contexts in diachronic case studies that combine quantitative precision with close qualitative interpretation. The articles deal with different languages including English, Dutch, Swedish, Italian, Spanish, Finnish, Estonian and Japanese, bringing their research traditions in pragmatics and corpus linguistics in dialogue with each other. This is the first time that such a wide range of languages has been brought together to showcase an exciting new field at the intersection of pragmatics, historical linguistics and corpus methodology.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789042029101

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Corpora: Pragmatics and Discourse by Anonim Pdf

This volume presents current state-of-the-art discussions in corpus-based linguistic research of the English language. The papers deal with Present-day English, worldwide varieties of English and the history of the English language. A special focus of the volume are studies in the broad field of corpus pragmatics and corpus-based discourse analysis. It includes corpus-based studies of speech acts, conversational routines, referential expressions and thought styles, as well as studies on the lexis, grammar and semantics of English. And it also includes several studies on technical aspects of corpus compilation, fieldwork and parsing.

Author : Steven Coats,Veronika Laippala
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781350362277

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Linguistics across Disciplinary Borders by Steven Coats,Veronika Laippala Pdf

This volume highlights the ways in which recent developments in corpus linguistics and natural language processing can engage with topics across language studies, humanities and social science disciplines. New approaches have emerged in recent years that blur disciplinary boundaries, facilitated by factors such as the application of computational methods, access to large data sets, and the sharing of code, as well as continual advances in technologies related to data storage, retrieval, and processing. The “march of data” denotes an area at the border region of linguistics, humanities, and social science disciplines, but also the inevitable development of the underlying technologies that drive analysis in these subject areas. Organized into 3 sections, the chapters are connected by the underlying thread of linguistic corpora: how they can be created, how they can shed light on varieties or registers, and how their metadata can be utilized to better understand the internal structure of similar resources. While some chapters in the volume make use of well-established existing corpora, others analyze data from platforms such as YouTube, Twitter or Reddit. The volume provides insight into the diversity of methods, approaches, and corpora that inform our understanding of the “border regions” between the realms of data science, language/linguistics, and social or cultural studies.

Author : Irma Taavitsainen,Päivi Pahta
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139493833

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Medical Writing in Early Modern English by Irma Taavitsainen,Päivi Pahta Pdf

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.

Author : Andreas Jucker
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780748686414

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English Historical Pragmatics by Andreas Jucker Pdf

Providing an ideal introduction to historical pragmatics, this guide gives students a solid grounding in historical pragmatics and teaches the methodology needed to analyse language in social, cultural and historical contexts. Using a number of case studies including politeness, news discourse, and scientific discourse, this book provides new insights into the analysis of discourse markers, interjections, terms of address and speech acts. Through focusing on the methodological problems in using historical data, students learn the key concepts in historical pragmatics, as well as covering recent work at the interface of between language and literature.

Author : Alexander Bergs,Laurel J. Brinton
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 1168 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110251609

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English Historical Linguistics. Volume 2 by Alexander Bergs,Laurel J. Brinton Pdf

Author : Merja Kytö,Erik Smitterberg
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027261434

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Late Modern English by Merja Kytö,Erik Smitterberg Pdf

The past few decades have witnessed an unprecedented surge of interest in the language of the Late Modern English period. Late Modern English: Novel Encounters covers a broad range of topics addressed by international experts in fields such as phonology, morphology, syntax, lexis, spelling and pragmatics; this makes the collection attractive to any scholar or student interested in the history of English. Each of the four thematic sections in the book represents a core area of Late Modern English studies. This division makes it easy for specialists to access the chapters that are of immediate relevance to their own work. An introductory chapter establishes connections between chapters within as well as between the four sections. The volume highlights recent advances in research methodology such as spelling normalization and other areas of corpus linguistics; several contributions also shed light on the interplay of internal and external factors in language change.

Author : Irma Taavitsainen,Turo Hiltunen,Jeremy J. Smith,Carla Suhr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
ISBN : 1009105345

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Genre in English Medical Writing, 1500-1820 by Irma Taavitsainen,Turo Hiltunen,Jeremy J. Smith,Carla Suhr Pdf

"Written by an interdisciplinary team of scholars, this book offers novel perspectives on the history of medical writing and scientific thought-styles by examining patterns of change and reception in genres, discourse, and lexis in the period 1500-1820. Each chapter demonstrates in detail how changing textual forms were closely tied to major multi-faceted social developments: industrialisation, urbanisation, expanding trade, colonialization, and changes in communication, all of which posed new demands on medical care. It then shows how these developments were reflected in a range of medical discourses, such as bills of mortality, medical advertisements, medical recipes, and medical rhetoric, and provides an extensive body of case studies to highlight how varieties of medical discourse have been targeted at different audiences over time. It draws on a wide range of methodological frameworks and is accompanied by numerous relevant illustrations, making it essential reading for academic researchers and students across the human sciences"--

Author : Andreas H. Jucker,Irma Taavitsainen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 756 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110214284

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Historical Pragmatics by Andreas H. Jucker,Irma Taavitsainen Pdf

The Handbook of Historical Pragmatics provides an authoritative and accessible overview of this versatile new field in pragmatics devoted to a diachronic study of language use and human interaction in context. It covers all areas of historical pragmatics from grammaticalization theory to pragmatic entities, such as discourse markers, speech acts and politeness to individual discourse domains from scientific writing to literary discourse. Each contribution, written by a leading specialist, gives a succinct, representative and up-to-date overview of research questions, theories, methods and recent developments in the field.

Author : Karin Aijmer,Christoph Rühlemann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107015043

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Corpus Pragmatics by Karin Aijmer,Christoph Rühlemann Pdf

The first handbook to survey and expand the burgeoning field of corpus pragmatics, the intersection of pragmatics and corpus linguistics.

Author : Anne O'Keeffe,Michael McCarthy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 711 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135153632

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The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics by Anne O'Keeffe,Michael McCarthy Pdf

Provides an overview of a dynamic and rapidly growing area with a widely applied methodology. This handbook covers the historical development of the field and its growing influence and application in other areas. It is suitable for advanced undergraduates and postgraduates.