Early Modern English Medical Texts

Corpus description and studies

Editors
ORCID logoIrma Taavitsainen | University of Helsinki
Päivi Pahta | University of Tampere
HardboundAvailable
ISBN 9789027211774 | EUR 95.00 | USD 143.00
The corpus Early Modern English Medical Texts (EMEMT) is the second component of the Corpus of Early English Medical Writing (CEEM), a three-part series of historical corpora of medical writing from 1375-1800. EMEMT contains a two-million word representative sample of the entire field of English medical writings that appeared in print between 1500 and 1700, and provides continuity to Middle English Medical Texts (MEMT), published on CD-ROM by John Benjamins in 2005.

The EMEMT corpus includes c. 230 texts, ranging from theoretical treatises rooted in academic traditions of medicine to popularized and utilitarian texts verging on household literature. The texts are grouped into six text categories that facilitate systematic research into the history of medical writing in its disciplinary context: general treatises and textbooks; treatises on specific topics; recipe collections and materia medica ; regimen and health guides; surgical treatises; and samples of the first scientific journal, the Philosophical Transactions.

EMEMT is released on CD-Rom with EMEMT Presenter, purpose-designed software by Raymond Hickey.

The corpus is published with a book, Early Modern English Medical Texts: Corpus Description and Studies, edited by Irma Taavitsainen & Päivi Pahta.

[Not in series, 160] 2010.  xv, 370 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)
Publishing status: Available
Table of Contents
“A most welcome addition to the world of diachronic English corpora. [...] I do not know any diachronic corpus of this dimension which is accompanied by such a wealth of instructive information. This is actually where corpus users should start before they embark on more sophisticated automatic analyses of ever-growing amounts of data and this is where they should return to when they seek explanations for their corpus findings.”
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Condorelli, Marco
2021. The Standardisation ofiandyin Early Modern English (1500–1700). English Studies 102:1  pp. 101 ff. DOI logo
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2012. Medical, Official, and Monastic Documents in Sociolinguistic Research. In The Handbook of Historical Sociolinguistics,  pp. 140 ff. DOI logo
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2017. The Corpus of Historical English Law Reports 1535–1999 (CHELAR): A resource for analysing the development of English legal discourse. ICAME Journal 41:1  pp. 53 ff. DOI logo
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2020. Linguistic Perspectives on Register. Annual Review of Linguistics 6:1  pp. 435 ff. DOI logo
Hiltunen, Turo & Irma Taavitsainen
2022. Chapter 1. Corpora, pragmatics, and historical medical discourse. In Corpus Pragmatic Studies on the History of Medical Discourse [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 330],  pp. 1 ff. DOI logo
Jiang, Feng (Kevin)
2019. Isabel Moskowich, Gonzalo Camiña Rioboo, Inés Lareo & Begoña Crespo (eds.), ‘The conditioned and the unconditioned’: Late Modern English texts on philosophy. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2016. Pp. xi + 182 (incl. CD-Rom). ISBN 9789027212290.. English Language and Linguistics 23:1  pp. 221 ff. DOI logo
Kytö, Merja & Päivi Pahta
2012. Evidence from historical corpora up to the twentieth century. In The Oxford Handbook of the History of English,  pp. 123 ff. DOI logo
Lehto, Anu
2022. Chapter 9. Unhappy patients and eminent physicians. In Corpus Pragmatic Studies on the History of Medical Discourse [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 330],  pp. 203 ff. DOI logo
Martín, Javier Calle
2017. “When That Wounds Are Evil Healed”: Revisiting Pleonastic That in Early English Medical Writing. Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 52:1  pp. 5 ff. DOI logo
Menzel, Katrin, Jörg Knappen & Elke Teich
2021. Generating linguistically relevant metadata for the Royal Society Corpus. Research in Corpus Linguistics 9:1  pp. 1 ff. DOI logo
Monaco, Leida Maria
2016. Was late Modern English scientific writing impersonal?. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 21:4  pp. 499 ff. DOI logo
Monaco, Leida Maria
Moskowich, Isabel
2022. Irma Taavitsainen and Turo Hiltunen (eds.). Late Modern English Medical Texts: Writing medicine in the eighteenth century. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2019. Pp. xix + 432. ISBN 9789027203229.. English Language and Linguistics 26:4  pp. 922 ff. DOI logo
Ollikainen, Karoliina
2022. Chapter 11. Communicating authority. In Corpus Pragmatic Studies on the History of Medical Discourse [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 330],  pp. 251 ff. DOI logo
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Schneider, Gerold
2022. Chapter 3. Medical topics and style from 1500 to 2018. In Corpus Pragmatic Studies on the History of Medical Discourse [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 330],  pp. 49 ff. DOI logo
Schnelle, Gohar, Carolin Odebrecht, Anke Lüdeling, Laura Perlitz & Catharina Fisher
2022. Chapter 7. “Die Blumenzeit der Frau”. In Corpus Pragmatic Studies on the History of Medical Discourse [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 330],  pp. 153 ff. DOI logo
Sylwanowicz, Marta
2018. Middle and Early Modern English Medical Recipes: Some Notes on Specialised Terminology. Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies :27/2  pp. 89 ff. DOI logo
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Taavitsainen, Irma
2018. Scholastic genre scripts in English medical writing 1375–1800. In Diachronic Corpora, Genre, and Language Change [Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 85],  pp. 95 ff. DOI logo
Taavitsainen, Irma
2020. A medical debate of “heated pamphleteering” in the early eighteenth century. In Manners, Norms and Transgressions in the History of English [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 312],  pp. 142 ff. DOI logo
Taavitsainen, Irma
2021. Medical book reviews 1665–1800. Journal of Historical Pragmatics 22:2  pp. 245 ff. DOI logo
Tyrkkö, Jukka & Joanna Kopaczyk
2018. Chapter 1. Present applications and future directions in pattern-driven approaches to corpus linguistics. In Applications of Pattern-driven Methods in Corpus Linguistics [Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 82],  pp. 1 ff. DOI logo
Walker, Terry & Merja Kytö
2022. Chapter 5. Survival or death. In Corpus Pragmatic Studies on the History of Medical Discourse [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 330],  pp. 105 ff. DOI logo
Whitt, Richard J.
2018. Using diachronic corpora to understand the connection between genre and language change. In Diachronic Corpora, Genre, and Language Change [Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 85],  pp. 1 ff. DOI logo
Whitt, Richard J.
2022. Chapter 8. Language, labour and ideology. In Corpus Pragmatic Studies on the History of Medical Discourse [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 330],  pp. 179 ff. DOI logo
WHITT, RICHARD J.
2023. Epistemic space and key concepts in early and late modern medical discourse: an exploration of two genres. English Language and Linguistics 27:2  pp. 241 ff. DOI logo
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Electronic/Multimedia Products

Electronic/Multimedia Products

Main BIC Subject

CF/2AB: Linguistics/English

Main BISAC Subject

LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
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