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”

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