Scholastic genre scripts in English medical writing 1375–1800
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Irma Taavitsainen
Abstract
Late medieval scientific and medical writing had several different genres and levels of writing from the beginning. Learned genres, including commentaries, were introduced into English with the vernacularization boom. The Latin “genre script” lists ancient authorities’ opinions of a topic, finishing with the commentator’s own. Writing conventions were adopted with a time lag, and fully-fletched commentaries emerge when the heyday of Scholasticism was already over. Research became increasingly based on observation and new top genres were based on empirical science. This chapter traces generic features derived from Scholasticism with genre dynamics and meaning-making practices at center stage. The material comes from medical corpora with background metadata.
Abstract
Late medieval scientific and medical writing had several different genres and levels of writing from the beginning. Learned genres, including commentaries, were introduced into English with the vernacularization boom. The Latin “genre script” lists ancient authorities’ opinions of a topic, finishing with the commentator’s own. Writing conventions were adopted with a time lag, and fully-fletched commentaries emerge when the heyday of Scholasticism was already over. Research became increasingly based on observation and new top genres were based on empirical science. This chapter traces generic features derived from Scholasticism with genre dynamics and meaning-making practices at center stage. The material comes from medical corpora with background metadata.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Preface and acknowledgments vii
- Using diachronic corpora to understand the connection between genre and language change 1
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Part I. Methods in diachronic corpus linguistics
- ‘From above’, ‘from below’, and regionally balanced 19
- Diachronic collocations, genre, and DiaCollo 41
- Classical and modern Arabic corpora 65
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Part II. Genre and diachronic corpora
- Scholastic genre scripts in English medical writing 1375–1800 95
- Academic writing as a locus of grammatical change 117
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Part III. Genre-based analyses of linguistic phenomena
- The importance of genre in the Greek diglossia of the 20th century 149
- “You can’t control a thing like that” 171
- Concessive conjunctions in written American English 195
- Variation of sentence length across time and genre 219
- A comparison of multi-genre and single-genre corpora in the context of contact-induced change 241
- Some methodological issues in the corpus-based study of morphosyntactic variation 261
- The interplay between genre variation and syntax in a historical Low German corpus 281
- Genre influence on word formation (change) 301
- Index 333
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Preface and acknowledgments vii
- Using diachronic corpora to understand the connection between genre and language change 1
-
Part I. Methods in diachronic corpus linguistics
- ‘From above’, ‘from below’, and regionally balanced 19
- Diachronic collocations, genre, and DiaCollo 41
- Classical and modern Arabic corpora 65
-
Part II. Genre and diachronic corpora
- Scholastic genre scripts in English medical writing 1375–1800 95
- Academic writing as a locus of grammatical change 117
-
Part III. Genre-based analyses of linguistic phenomena
- The importance of genre in the Greek diglossia of the 20th century 149
- “You can’t control a thing like that” 171
- Concessive conjunctions in written American English 195
- Variation of sentence length across time and genre 219
- A comparison of multi-genre and single-genre corpora in the context of contact-induced change 241
- Some methodological issues in the corpus-based study of morphosyntactic variation 261
- The interplay between genre variation and syntax in a historical Low German corpus 281
- Genre influence on word formation (change) 301
- Index 333
