1st Edition
Historical Medical Discourse Corpus Linguistic Perspectives
List of Editors
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
1. Corpora and the Study of Historical Medical Discourse
Gavin Brookes, Niall Curry, Tony McEnery & Emma Putland
2. From “I Tried a Purge” to “Experimental Intervention”: A Corpus-Based Discourse Study of Depersonalisation as a Conceptual Strategy in Medical Writing from 1700 to the Present
Georg Marko
3. Patterns of Change in Late Modern English Microbiology Texts
Katrin Menzel
4. The Adaptation of Medical Knowledge in Late-seventeenth- and Early-eighteenth-century Manuscript Household Books
Giulia Rovell
5. Gender-Based Evidence of Modalisation and Modulation Strategies in Nineteenth-Century Institution English Recipes
Francisco J. Alonso-Almeida
6. The Role of Personal Pronouns to Express Interpersonality in Women’s Recipe Collections
Isabel de la Cruz-Cabanillas
7. When People Overload The/Their Stomach(s): Non-Verbal Plural Number Agreement and Generic Reference in Early and Late Modern Medical Discourse
Karolina Rudnicka & Richard J. Whitt
8. Sensory Language as a Gateway to Knowledge and Evidence in Early Modern English Midwifery Writing (1540-1800): On Verbs of Tactile Perception
Richard J. Whitt
9. Midwifery and Medical Writing in Eigteenth-century British Reference Works: A Historical and Diachronic Corpus-Based Study
Elisabetta Lonati
10. Advertising a Proprietary Medicine: Daffy’s Elixir Salutis in Eighteenth-Century Newspaper Advertisements
Carla Suhr
11. Anti-Vaccination Discourse in Victorian England: Key Semantic Domains and Parallels with Present-Day Anti-Vaccination Arguments
Elena Semino, Derek Gatherer, Tara Coltman-Patel, William Dance, Alice Deignan and Claire Hardaker
Index
Biography
Gavin Brookes is Reader in Linguistics and UKRI Future Leader Fellow in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University, UK.
Niall Curry is Senior Lecturer in the School of English at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.
Tony McEnery is Distinguished Professor of Linguistics and English Language in the Department of English Language and Linguistics at Lancaster University, UK, and Changjiang Chair at Xi'an Jiaotong University, China.
Emma Putland is Senior Research Associate for the project ‘Public Discourses of Dementia: Challenging stigma and promoting personhood’, based in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University, UK.
