David Banks
List of John Benjamins publications for which David Banks plays a role.
2024 The text of the Bayeux Tapestry: Propaganda in the 11th century. A linguistic note Language, Context and Text 6:2, pp. 449–466 | Article
The Bayeux Tapestry, which strictly speaking is not a tapestry at all but a piece of embroidery, was produced in the late 11th century, probably commissioned by Odo, bishop of Bayeux, William the Conqueror’s half-brother. Its objective is to support William’s invasion and conquest of England. It… read more
2022 Some linguistic features of the physical sciences research article before, during and after the First World War Language, Context and Text 4:1, pp. 61–83 | Article
Previous studies suggest that in times of great turbulence scientific writing becomes more conservative. In order to see whether this is true of the period of the First World War, a sample of research articles in the field of the physical sciences for the years 1900, 1910, 1920 and 1930 was… read more
2021 Turbulent periods and the development of the scientific research article, 1735–1835 Journal of Historical Pragmatics 22:1, pp. 96–120 | Article
The results of a previous study (Banks 2018) suggest that the development of scientific writing is more conservative in times of great turbulence. In an attempt to verify this, samples were taken from the Mémoires de l’Académie des Sciences and the Philosophical Transactions for the years 1735,… read more
2021 Translating the English academic article for a French readership in 1686 Language, Context and Text 3:1, pp. 93–129 | Article
Previous studies of translations from the Philosophical Transactions to the Journal des Sçavans in 1665 and 1675 showed that the translators adopted a strategy of selective translation. The present study looks at five examples published in 1686. Selective translation is again in evidence.… read more
2013 Review of Percebois & Petit (2011): Études de Stylistique Anglaise Terminology 19:1, pp. 139–142 | Review
2012 11. Thematic structure in eighteenth century astronomical texts: A study of a small sample of articles from the Corpus of English Texts on Astronomy Astronomy ‘playne and simple’: The writing of science between 1700 and 1900, Moskowich, Isabel and Begoña Crespo (eds.), pp. 221–238 | Article
2005 Emerging scientific discourse in the late seventeenth century: A comparison of Newton’s Opticks, and Huygens’ Traité de la lumière Functions of Language 12:1, pp. 65–86 | Article
This study concerns two scientific texts of the late seventeenth century. One is Newton’s Opticks, written in English; the other, written in French, is Traité de la lumière by Huygens. It is argued that the two writers have different ideologies, in the sense that Newton is working in an empirical… read more
2003 The evolution of grammatical metaphor in scientific writing Grammatical Metaphor: Views from systemic functional linguistics, Simon-Vandenbergen, Anne-Marie, Miriam Taverniers and Louise J. Ravelli (eds.), pp. 127–147 | Article