Explorations through Early Modern English Medical Texts

2010 ◽  
pp. 151-166
Author(s):  
Anu Lehto ◽  
Raisa Oinonen ◽  
Päivi Pahta
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Medical Texts ◽  
Early Modern English

So ADJ/ADV that clause patterns in Early Modern English medical writing

2012 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 313-335
Author(s):  
Turo Hiltunen
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Medical Writing ◽  
Entire Period ◽  
Medical Texts ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Medical English ◽  
Early Modern English ◽  
Popular Texts

This paper investigates how an intensifying phraseological pattern involving the adverb so followed by a delayed declarative content clause is used in medical English in the early modern period (1500–1700). So may occur with adjectival, nominal or adverbial heads, and the pattern is used for indicating degree, extent or manner. The analysis employs the recently published Early Modern English Medical Texts corpus to show (i) that the pattern was in use throughout the entire period, (ii) that it tends to be more frequently used in learned rather than popular texts, and (iii) that it is typically used for giving descriptions and less often in instructions.

scholarly journals Evidentiality in Early Modern English Medical Treatises (1500–1700)

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Jason Whitt
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern England ◽  
The State ◽  
Medical Texts ◽  
Early Modern English ◽  
Quantitative Results ◽  
Medical Treatises ◽  
Changing Role

AbstractThis study investigates diachronic trends in the use of evidential markers in Early Modern English medical treatises (1500–1700), with data drawn from the Corpus of Early Modern English Medical Texts. The state of medical thought and practice in Early Modern England is discussed, with particular focus on the changing role that Scholasticism played during this period. The nature of evidentiality and types of scholastic vs. non-scholastic evidence are given attention, and quantitative results are outlined. It is shown that as scholastic models of medicine gave way to more empirically-driven approaches, the use of evidential markers indicating direct perceptual and inferential evidence increased drastically, while the use of markers signaling reported information – particularly information mediated by classical authorities – decreased significantly. The results are finally discussed in light of discursive and typological considerations relating to contextual changes accompanying the reference to classical authors as sources of evidence, as well as the notion of “marked” and “unmarked” evidence types.

scholarly journals Linguistic Complexity across Two Early Modern English Scientific Text Types

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 50-71
Author(s):  
Jesús Romero-Barranco
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Medical Texts ◽  
Linguistic Complexity ◽  
Scientific Text ◽  
Language Typology ◽  
Early Modern English ◽  
Text Types ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Early English

In linguistics the concept of complexity has been analysed from various perspectives, among them language typology and the speech/writing distinction. Within intralinguistic studies, certain key linguistic features associated with reduced or increased complexity have been identified. These features occur in different patterns across various registers and their frequency is an indicator of the level of complexity of different kinds of texts. The concept of complexity has not, to date, been evaluated in early English medical writing, especiallyin terms of different text types. Thus, the present article analyses linguistic complexity in two Early Modern English medical texts, a surgical treatise (ff. 34r-73v) and a collection of medical recipes (ff. 74r-121v) housed as MS Hunter 135 in Glasgow University Library. Since they represent two different types of medical text, they can be productively compared in terms of linguistic complexity. The results obtained confirm that the surgical treatise is more complex than the collection of medical recipes owing to the higher presence of linguistic features denoting increased complexity in the former and of those indicating reduced linguistic complexity in the latter.

Exploring Early Modern English Medical Texts

2010 ◽  
pp. 219-278 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jukka Tyrkkö ◽  
Raymond Hickey ◽  
Ville Marttila
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Medical Texts ◽  
Early Modern English

Introducing Early Modern English Medical Texts

2010 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Päivi Pahta ◽  
Irma Taavitsainen
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Medical Texts ◽  
Early Modern English

Medical texts in 1500–1700 and the corpus of Early Modern English Medical Texts

2011 ◽  
pp. 9-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irma Taavitsainen ◽  
Peter Murray Jones ◽  
Päivi Pahta ◽  
Turo Hiltunen ◽  
Ville Marttila ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Medical Texts ◽  
Early Modern English
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