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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. 289–308

Chapter 15
Spotting register-internal variation in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century life sciences

Descriptiveness and argumentation in the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts

| 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
  • Notes
  • Works cited
Published online: 10 September 2021
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