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Chapter 5. The Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts and representativeness

An information and documentation analysis of Late Modern English scientific Texts
  • Elena Alfaya Lamas
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Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. About this book vii
  4. Explorations of life sciences writing (1700–1900) ix
  5. List of Contributors xi
  6. Chapter 1. The making of the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts (CELiST), a bunch of disciplines 1
  7. Chapter 2. Editorial policy in the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts 21
  8. Chapter 3. A look beyond the texts 39
  9. Chapter 4. A look beyond the texts 71
  10. Chapter 5. The Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts and representativeness 95
  11. Chapter 6. Lexical fixedness within the field of Life Sciences in Late Modern English 115
  12. Chapter 7. Engagement in the botanists of the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts 133
  13. Chapter 8. Linguistic indicators of persuasion in female authors in the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts 147
  14. Chapter 9. Persuasion in English scientific writing 169
  15. Chapter 10. “If you will take the trouble to inquire into it rather closely, I think you will find that it is not worth very much” 189
  16. Chapter 11. “This ingenious hypothe∫is hath a great appearance of truth” 209
  17. Chapter 12. Evaluative that structures in the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts 227
  18. Chapter 13. Authority and deontic modals in Late Modern English 249
  19. Chapter 14. A study of coherence relations in the English scientific register 265
  20. Chapter 15. Spotting register-internal variation in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century life sciences 289
  21. Index 309
https://doi.org/10.1075/z.237.05alf

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. About this book vii
  4. Explorations of life sciences writing (1700–1900) ix
  5. List of Contributors xi
  6. Chapter 1. The making of the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts (CELiST), a bunch of disciplines 1
  7. Chapter 2. Editorial policy in the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts 21
  8. Chapter 3. A look beyond the texts 39
  9. Chapter 4. A look beyond the texts 71
  10. Chapter 5. The Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts and representativeness 95
  11. Chapter 6. Lexical fixedness within the field of Life Sciences in Late Modern English 115
  12. Chapter 7. Engagement in the botanists of the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts 133
  13. Chapter 8. Linguistic indicators of persuasion in female authors in the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts 147
  14. Chapter 9. Persuasion in English scientific writing 169
  15. Chapter 10. “If you will take the trouble to inquire into it rather closely, I think you will find that it is not worth very much” 189
  16. Chapter 11. “This ingenious hypothe∫is hath a great appearance of truth” 209
  17. Chapter 12. Evaluative that structures in the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts 227
  18. Chapter 13. Authority and deontic modals in Late Modern English 249
  19. Chapter 14. A study of coherence relations in the English scientific register 265
  20. Chapter 15. Spotting register-internal variation in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century life sciences 289
  21. Index 309
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