Chapter published in:
“All families and genera”: Exploring the Corpus of English Life Sciences TextsEdited by Isabel Moskowich, Inés Lareo and Gonzalo Camiña
[Not in series 237] 2021
► pp. 289–308
Chapter 15Spotting register-internal variation in eighteenth- and
nineteenth-century life sciences
Descriptiveness and argumentation in the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts
Leida Maria Monaco | University of Oviedo
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Register variation and change in historical and scientific English
- 3.Methodology: The Multidimensional Analysis applied
- 4.Analysis of data
- 4.1Variation across time and disciplines
- 4.2Variation across genres
- 4.3Variation across male and female scientific discourse
- 5.Concluding remarks
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Notes -
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Published online: 10 September 2021
https://doi.org/10.1075/z.237.15mon
https://doi.org/10.1075/z.237.15mon
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