Chapter published in:
“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. 133–146

Chapter 7
Engagement in the botanists of the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts

Flourishing female scientific writing

| University of La Laguna
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English botany
    • 2.1Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English botanists
    • 2.2Sources
  • 3.Directives in female and male botanists
  • 4.Historical evolution of directives
  • 5.Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Works cited
Published online: 10 September 2021
https://doi.org/10.1075/z.237.07mel
References

Works cited

Collins Dictionary Online
2020 Botany: Terms Used in Botany. Word List: Terms Used in Botany. Retrieved January 20, 2020, from https://​www​.collinsdictionary​.com​/word​-lists​/botany​-terms​-used​-in​-botany
Biber, Douglas; Johansson, Stig; Leech, Geoffrey; Conrad, Susan, and Finegan, Edward
1999 Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English. London: Longman.Google Scholar
Easterby-Smith, Sarah
2017 Botanical Collecting in 18th-century London. Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, 34/4: 279–297. CrossrefGoogle Scholar
2018 Cultivating Commerce: Cultures of Botany in Britain and France, 1760–1815. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
George, Sam
2005 Linnaeus in Letters and the Cultivation of the Female Mind: ‘Botany in an English Dress’. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 28/1: 1–18. First published Online 2008. CrossrefGoogle Scholar
2014 Carl Linnaeus, Erasmus Darwin and Anna Seward: Botanical Poetry and Female Education. Science & Education, 23: 673–694. CrossrefGoogle Scholar
Hyland, Ken and Jiang, Feng (Kevin)
2016 ‘We Must Conclude that…’: A Diachronic Study of Academic Engagement. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 24: 29–42. CrossrefGoogle Scholar
Hyland, Ken
2002 Authority and Invisibility: Authorial Identity in Academic Writing. Journal of Pragmatics, 34: 1091–1112. CrossrefGoogle Scholar
2005 Stance and Engagement: A Model of Interaction in Academic Discourse. Discourse Studies, 7/2: 173–192. CrossrefGoogle Scholar
Jacson, Maria Elizabeth
1804  Botanical Lectures. By a Lady. Altered from “Botanical Dialogues for the use of schools”, and adapted to the use of persons of all ages, by the same author. London: printed for J. Johnson by T. Bensley.Google Scholar
Kohnen, Thomas
2008 “Tracing Directives through Text and Time: towards a methodology of corpus-based diachronic speech-act analysis”. In Jucker, Andreas and Taavitsainen, Irma (eds.), Speech Acts in the History of English. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 295–310. CrossrefGoogle Scholar
Lareo, Inés; Monaco, Leida Maria; Esteve-Ramos, María José and Moskowich, Isabel
(comps.) 2020 The Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts (CELiST). A Coruña: Universidade da Coruña. CrossrefGoogle Scholar
Lincoln, Almira Hart Phelps
1832 Familiar Lectures on Botany, including practical and elementary Botany, with generic and specific Descriptions of the most common native and foreign Plants and a Vocabulary of botanical Terms. For the use of Higher schools and academies. Hartford: J. F. Huntington.Google Scholar
Mele-Marrero, Margarita
2019 “Neither I nor we: Unexplicit Authorial Voice in 18thC Academic Texts” In Moskowich, Isabel; Crespo, Begoña; Puente-Castelo, Luis and Monaco, Leida Maria. Writing History in Late Modern English: Explorations of the Coruña Corpus, 216–234.Google Scholar
Moskowich, Isabel; Camiña, Gonzalo; Lareo, Inés and Crespo, Begoña
(comps.) 2016 Corpus of English Philosophy Texts (CEPhiT). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. CrossrefGoogle Scholar
Moskowich, Isabel; Lareo, Inés; Camiña Rioboó, Gonzalo and Crespo, Begoña
(comps.) 2012 Corpus of English Texts on Astronomy (CETA). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. CrossrefGoogle Scholar
Moskowich, Isabel; Lareo, Inés; Lojo Sandino, Paula and Sánchez-Barreiro, Estefanía
(comps.) 2019 Corpus of History English Texts (CHET). A Coruña: Universidade da Coruña. CrossrefGoogle Scholar
Pérez Hernández, Lorena and Ruiz de Mendoza, Francisco J.
2002 Grounding, Semantic Motivation, and Conceptual Interaction in Indirect Directive Speech Acts. Journal of Pragmatics, 34: 259–284. CrossrefGoogle Scholar
Searle, John R.
1976 A Classification of Illocutionary Acts. Language in Society, 5/1: 1–23. CrossrefGoogle Scholar
Shteir, Ann B.
1990 Botanical Dialogues: Maria Jacson and Women’s Popular Science Writing in England. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 23: 301–317. CrossrefGoogle Scholar
Stearn, William T.
1966 Botanical Latin. History, Grammar, Syntax, Terminology and Vocabulary. London: David & Charles Newton Abbot.Google Scholar
University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Glossary of Botanical Terms. Retrieved February 25, 2020 from https://​www​.usask​.ca​/biology​/rareplants​_sk​/root​/htm​/en​/researcher​/5​_gloss​.php
Van Olmen, Daniël and Heinold, Simone
(eds.) 2017 Imperatives and Directive Strategies from a Functional-Typological Perspective. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. CrossrefGoogle Scholar
Zou, Hang J. and Hyland, Ken
2019 ‘Think about How Fascinating this is’: Engagement in Academic Blogs Across Disciplines. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 43: 1–12. CrossrefGoogle Scholar