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.
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