0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Browse All Departments
  • All Departments
Price
Status
Brand

Showing 1 - 13 of 13 matches in All Departments

Medical Writing in Early Modern English (Hardcover): Irma Taavitsainen, Paivi Pahta Medical Writing in Early Modern English (Hardcover)
Irma Taavitsainen, Paivi Pahta
R3,181 Discovery Miles 31 810 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

Developments in English - Expanding Electronic Evidence (Hardcover): Irma Taavitsainen, Merja Kytoe, Claudia Claridge, Jeremy... Developments in English - Expanding Electronic Evidence (Hardcover)
Irma Taavitsainen, Merja Kytoe, Claudia Claridge, Jeremy Smith
R3,063 Discovery Miles 30 630 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The history of the English language is a vast and diverse area of research. In this volume, a team of leading historians of English come together to analyse 'real' language, drawing on corpus data to shed new light on long-established issues and debates in the field. Combining synchronic and diachronic analysis, the chapters address the major issues in corpus linguistics - methodological, theoretical and applied - and place special focus on the use of electronic resources in the research of English and the wider field of digital humanities. Topics covered include polemical articles on the optimal use of corpus linguistic methods, macro-level patterns of text and discourse organisation, and micro-features such as interjections and hesitators. Covering Englishes from the past and present, this book is designed specifically for graduate students and researchers working in fields of corpus linguistics, the history of the English language, and historical linguistics.

Placing Middle English in Context (Hardcover, Reprint 2011): Irma Taavitsainen, Terttu Nevalainen, Paivi Pahta, Matti Rissanen Placing Middle English in Context (Hardcover, Reprint 2011)
Irma Taavitsainen, Terttu Nevalainen, Paivi Pahta, Matti Rissanen
R5,872 Discovery Miles 58 720 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies which integrate work in English linguistics into general and theoretical linguistics on the one hand, and comparative linguistics on the other. The TiEL series features volumes that present interesting new data and analyses, and above all fresh approaches that contribute to the overall aim of the series, which is to further outstanding research in English linguistics.

Medical and Scientific Writing in Late Medieval English (Hardcover): Irma Taavitsainen, Paivi Pahta Medical and Scientific Writing in Late Medieval English (Hardcover)
Irma Taavitsainen, Paivi Pahta
R3,178 Discovery Miles 31 780 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The late Middle Ages in England saw a flowering of scientific writing in the vernacular that moved English discourse in new directions and established new textual genres. This book examines the sociolinguistic causes and effects of that process, based on the empirical evidence from manuscripts and computerized files. Topics covered include scriptorial "house-styles", code-switching, translation strategies, and transmission processes. The book offers important new insights into vernacularization phenomena, and will be welcomed by historical linguists and medievalists alike.

Methods in Historical Pragmatics (Hardcover): Susan M. Fitzmaurice, Irma Taavitsainen Methods in Historical Pragmatics (Hardcover)
Susan M. Fitzmaurice, Irma Taavitsainen
R6,952 Discovery Miles 69 520 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume represents a timely collective review and assessment of what it is we do when we do English historical pragmatics or historical discourse analysis. The context for the volume is a critical assessment of the assumptions and practices defining the body of research conducted on the history of the English language from the perspective of historical pragmatics, broadly construed. The aim of the volume is to engage with matters of approach and method from different perspectives; accordingly, the contributions offer insights into earlier communicative practices, registers, and linguistic functions as gleaned from historical discourse. The essays are grouped according to their orientations within the scope of the study of language and meaning in historical texts, both literary and non-literary. The structure of the volume thus represents a critical convergence of traditions of reading texts and analyzing discourse and this in turn exposes key questions about the methods and the outcomes of such readings or analyses. The volume contributes to the growing maturity of historical pragmatic research approaches as it exemplifies and extends the range of approaches and methods that dominate the research enterprise. Contributors are prominent international scholars in the fields of linguistics, literature, and philology: Dawn Archer, Birte Boes, Laurel Brinton, Gabriella Del Lungo Camiciotti, James Fitzmaurice, Susan Fitzmaurice, Monika Fludernik, Andreas Jucker, Thomas Kohnen, Ursula Lenker, Lynne Magnusson, and Irma Taavitsainen.

Historical Pragmatics (Hardcover): Andreas H Jucker, Irma Taavitsainen Historical Pragmatics (Hardcover)
Andreas H Jucker, Irma Taavitsainen
R9,658 Discovery Miles 96 580 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

History of Englishes - New Methods and Interpretations in Historical Linguistics (Hardcover, Reprint 2011): Matti Rissanen,... History of Englishes - New Methods and Interpretations in Historical Linguistics (Hardcover, Reprint 2011)
Matti Rissanen, Ossi Ihalainen, Terttu Nevalainen, Irma Taavitsainen
R7,797 Discovery Miles 77 970 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies which integrate work in English linguistics into general and theoretical linguistics on the one hand, and comparative linguistics on the other. The TiEL series features volumes that present interesting new data and analyses, and above all fresh approaches that contribute to the overall aim of the series, which is to further outstanding research in English linguistics.

Diachronic Perspectives on Domain-specific English (Paperback): Marina Dossena, Irma Taavitsainen Diachronic Perspectives on Domain-specific English (Paperback)
Marina Dossena, Irma Taavitsainen
R2,320 Discovery Miles 23 200 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume reflects the results of a workshop on the investigation of specialized discourse in a diachronic perspective, held within the 15th European Symposium on Language for Special Purposes ('New Trends in Specialized Discourse', Bergamo 2005). The articles deal with developments from the late medieval period to the present day, and the book encompasses studies in which the long-established tradition of domain-specific English is highlighted. The fields of contributions range from scientific to legal to political and business discourse. Special attention is given to argumentation, in an attempt to assess the time-depth of typical rhetorical strategies. Some methodological innovations are introduced in corpus linguistics. Numerous contributions bring new materials to scholarly discussion, as recently released or in-progress 'second-generation' corpora are used as data. Recent changes in present-day legal and scientific writing are also discussed as they witness fast adaptation to new requirements, due to the advent and growing familiarity of new technologies, international law and changes in academia.

Genre in English Medical Writing, 1500-1820 - Sociocultural Contexts of Production and Use (Hardcover): Irma Taavitsainen, Turo... Genre in English Medical Writing, 1500-1820 - Sociocultural Contexts of Production and Use (Hardcover)
Irma Taavitsainen, Turo Hiltunen, Jeremy J. Smith, Carla Suhr
R2,711 Discovery Miles 27 110 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

Medical Writing in Early Modern English (Paperback): Irma Taavitsainen, Paivi Pahta Medical Writing in Early Modern English (Paperback)
Irma Taavitsainen, Paivi Pahta
R1,141 Discovery Miles 11 410 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

Medical and Scientific Writing in Late Medieval English (Paperback): Irma Taavitsainen, Paivi Pahta Medical and Scientific Writing in Late Medieval English (Paperback)
Irma Taavitsainen, Paivi Pahta
R1,230 Discovery Miles 12 300 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Medical and scientific writing in English has evolved over more than a millennium, from its genesis in the Anglo-Saxon era to its present-day position as the 'lingua franca' of science. This 2004 volume focuses on its development as a genre in late medieval English. During this period it emerged in the vernacular, as its Graeco-Roman conventions were modified in a new socio-historical context. Seven experts discuss the various linguistic and textual processes involved in vernacularising science, and how they related to communicative practices and to the writers and readers of medical and scientific texts. Referring to authentic medieval texts, they show how discourse communities adopted scriptorial 'house-styles', how vocabulary and code-switching patterns reflect the multilingual context of the period, and how intertextuality featured between shared materials. Bringing together several perspectives on this research area, this book will be welcomed by linguists and historians of science alike.

English Historical Pragmatics (Paperback): Andreas Jucker, Irma Taavitsainen English Historical Pragmatics (Paperback)
Andreas Jucker, Irma Taavitsainen
R784 Discovery Miles 7 840 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is your guide to historical pragmatics in English studies. 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.

Developments in English - Expanding Electronic Evidence (Paperback): Irma Taavitsainen, Merja Kytoe, Claudia Claridge, Jeremy... Developments in English - Expanding Electronic Evidence (Paperback)
Irma Taavitsainen, Merja Kytoe, Claudia Claridge, Jeremy Smith
R1,054 Discovery Miles 10 540 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The history of the English language is a vast and diverse area of research. In this volume, a team of leading historians of English come together to analyse 'real' language, drawing on corpus data to shed new light on long-established issues and debates in the field. Combining synchronic and diachronic analysis, the chapters address the major issues in corpus linguistics - methodological, theoretical and applied - and place special focus on the use of electronic resources in the research of English and the wider field of digital humanities. Topics covered include polemical articles on the optimal use of corpus linguistic methods, macro-level patterns of text and discourse organisation, and micro-features such as interjections and hesitators. Covering Englishes from the past and present, this book is designed specifically for graduate students and researchers working in fields of corpus linguistics, the history of the English language, and historical linguistics.

Free Delivery
Pinterest Twitter Facebook Google+
You may like...
Assessing with Respect - Everyday…
Starr Sackstein Paperback R773 R669 Discovery Miles 6 690
How to Find the Christmas Spirit
Charly Froh Hardcover R639 Discovery Miles 6 390
Research Anthology on Synthesis…
Information R Management Association Hardcover R16,568 Discovery Miles 165 680
40 Lives In 40 Days - Experiencing God's…
John MacArthur Hardcover R431 R390 Discovery Miles 3 900
Out Of Season
Erin Lee Hardcover R607 Discovery Miles 6 070
History of Islamic Philosophy
Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Oliver Leaman Paperback R3,936 Discovery Miles 39 360
Good Night, Good Night, Victoria Beach
Rae St Clair Bridgman Hardcover R797 R705 Discovery Miles 7 050
Supporting Modern Teaching in Islamic…
Ismail Hussein Amzat Hardcover R5,037 Discovery Miles 50 370
Stem Cells and Cancer Stem Cells, Volume…
M. A. Hayat Hardcover R5,666 R5,311 Discovery Miles 53 110
Five Black Arts - a Popular Account of…
William Turner Coggeshall Paperback R688 Discovery Miles 6 880

 

Partners