nam a22 4500 z.173/779011048 nljbp 240918104900.6 cr ||||||||||| 141111s2012 ne |||||||||||||||||eng|d 2012013479 9789027272508 (e-Book) nljbp eng nljbp nljbp QB28 520.9/03 23 CFF bicssc LAN009000 bisacsh Astronomy ‘playne and simple’ The writing of science between 1700 and 1900 Including CD-Rom: A Corpus of English Texts on Astronomy (CETA) Edited by Isabel Moskowich and Begoña Crespo Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2012 ©2012 1 online resource (xi, 240 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Preface / Luis Iglesias Rábade -- 1. Late Modern English in its historical context / Joan C. Beal -- 2. Astronomy as scientific knowledge in Modern England / Begoña Crespo -- 3. CETA as a tool for the study of modern astronomy in English / Isabel Moskowich -- 4. Astronomical discourse in 18th and 19th century texts / Begoña Crespo -- 5. Patterns of English scientific writing in the 18th century / Isabel Moskowich -- 6. Accounting for observations of the heavens in the 18th century / Gonzalo Camiña -- 7. Subject specific vocabulary in astronomy texts / Pascual Cantos Gómez and Nila Vázquez -- 8. A corpus-driven analysis of complex predicates in 18th century scientific writings in CETA / Inés Lareo -- 9. The emergence and evolution of the pattern N + PREP + V-ing in historical scientific texts / Bethany Gray and Douglas Biber -- 10. An analysis of hedging in eighteenth century English astronomy texts / Francisco Alonso-Almeida -- 11. Thematic structure in eighteenth century astronomical texts / David Banks This volume includes methodological considerations and descriptions of some of the texts compiled in The Corpus of English Texts on Astronomy (CETA), together with a number of pilot studies using these texts showing how the corpus can be used to investigate English Astronomy writing between 1700 and 1900, from a synchronic and a diachronic perspective. CETA is part of the Coruña Corpus of English Scientific Writing (CC). Since the CC was designed in 2003 with a sampling method by which extracts of 10,000 words were selected, this method has been followed in CETA, with samples from 42 different authors both from Europe and North America. Some extralinguistic parameters, such as year of publication, sex, geographical provenance and text-types/genres have been considered for text selection. According to late Modern English text typology, the samples in CETA can be grouped in eight different categories and such categories, as well as some other metadata information, can be used to search the corpus. CETA, together with the Coruña Corpus Tool purpose-designed software by IrLab, was originally made available with the volume on CD-rom. As of early 2019, these are also accessible online at the Repositorio Universidade Coruña: CCT at http://hdl.handle.net/2183/21850and CETA at https://doi.org/10.17979/spudc.9788497497084 Provided by publisher. Corpus linguistics Electronic/Multimedia Products English linguistics Germanic linguistics Historical linguistics Moskowich, Isabel editor Crespo, Begoña editor Moskowich, Isabel editor Lareo, Inés editor Camiña, Gonzalo editor Crespo, Begoña editor Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2012 Hardbound version: 9789027211941 DOI https://doi.org/10.1075/z.173 JB e-Platform https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027272508