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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. 95–114

Chapter 5
The Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts and representativeness

An information and documentation analysis of Late Modern English scientific Texts

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Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.The corpus and representativeness
  • 3.Methodology
  • 4.Findings and discussion
    • Qualitative representativeness
    • Quantitative representativeness
  • 5.Concluding remarks
  • Note
  • Works cited
Published online: 10 September 2021
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https://doi.org/10.1075/z.237.05alf
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