Diachronic Corpora, Genre, and Language Change
Edited by Richard J. Whitt
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 85] 2018. viii, 337 pp.
Richard J. Whitt
List of John Benjamins publications for which Richard J. Whitt plays a role.
Title
Subjects Corpus linguistics | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2022 Chapter 8. Language, labour and ideology: Constructing epistemologies of childbirth in the first three centuries of English-language midwifery texts (1540–1800) Corpus Pragmatic Studies on the History of Medical Discourse, Hiltunen, Turo and Irma Taavitsainen (eds.), pp. 179–202 | Chapter
Writings on midwifery and women’s medicine related to childbirth reflect the many changes affecting this field during the Early Modern period, which in turn reflect changes in epistemological values Through the lens of critical discourse analysis, this paper discusses existing and emergent… read more
2018 “And all this is spoken of the naturall byrth …”: Metadiscourse in The Birth of Mankind and its German source text, Rosengarten English Text Construction 11:2, pp. 226–256 | Article
This paper provides an examination of the use of metadiscourse in the two versions of The Birth of Mankind, the first midwifery manual to be printed in English during the sixteenth century. It is a translation of a Latin text, which itself is a translation of the German Rosengarten. While much… read more
2018 Evidentiality and propositional scope in Early Modern German Journal of Historical Pragmatics 19:1, pp. 122–149 | Article
This paper provides an overview of verbal markers of evidentiality in Early Modern German (1650 to 1800) in light of Boye’s propositional scope hypothesis. The markers under investigation include the semi-auxiliary scheinen (‘to shine, appear, seem’) and the perception verbs sehen (‘see’) and… read more
2018 Using diachronic corpora to understand the connection between genre and language change Diachronic Corpora, Genre, and Language Change, Whitt, Richard J. (ed.), pp. 1–16 | Chapter
2014 Singular perception, multiple perspectives through ‘we’: Constructing intersubjective meaning in English and German Constructing Collectivity: 'We' across languages and contexts, Pavlidou, Theodossia-Soula (ed.), pp. 45–64 | Article
This paper presents the results of a corpus-based investigation of the role of the first-person plural pronoun in the construction of intersubjective meaning among evidential perception verbs of sight and sound in English and German (with most attention being given to written rather than spoken… read more