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“All families and genera”: Exploring the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts
Edited by Isabel Moskowich, Inés Lareo and Gonzalo Camiña
[Not in series 237] 2021
► pp. 1–20

Chapter 1
The making of the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts (CELiST), a bunch of disciplines

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Article outline
  • 1.Introduction: Biology or something else?
  • 2.The structure of CELiST
  • 3.The authors in CELiST
    • 3.1The sex of the authors
    • 3.2Geography
  • 4.The texts in CELiST
    • 4.1The genres in CELiST
  • Notes
  • Works cited
Published online: 10 September 2021
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