Elisabetta Lonati
List of John Benjamins publications for which Elisabetta Lonati plays a role.
Articles
2024 Duties, offices, and conduct: The lexis of moral sense and practical ethics in late eighteenth-century medical writing Unlocking the History of English: Pragmatics, prescriptivism and text types, Caon, Luisella, Moragh S. Gordon and Thijs Porck (eds.), pp. 129–152 | Chapter
The general aim of this study is to investigate the lexis of moral sense and practical ethics in a number of medical works published between 1770 and 1803. Two physicians laid the foundations of medical morality: John Gregory (1724–1773) and Thomas Percival (1740–1804). In their works, they… read more
2020 Chapter 10. Paratextual features in 18th-century medical writing: Framing contents and expanding the text The Dynamics of Text and Framing Phenomena: Historical approaches to paratext and metadiscourse in English, Peikola, Matti and Birte Bös (eds.), pp. 233–266 | Chapter
This study focusses on the paratextual apparatus of 18th-century medical writing, with specific reference to tables of contents, indexes, appendices and glossaries in handbooks and compendia published in the second half of the century. The analysis, carried out on a sample of relevant works of… read more