Publications

Publication details [#45766]

Salager-Meyer, Francoise, María Ángeles Alcaraz Ariza and Maryelis Pabón Berbesí. 2007. Collegiality, critique and the construction of scientific argumentation in medical book reviews: A diachronic approach. Journal of Pragmatics 39 (10) : 1758–1774.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

argumentation | diachronic change | review | scientific language | social constraint

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This article uses a corpus of 100 French-written book reviews, 50 published between 1890 and 1900 and 50 published between 1990 and 2000, to examine the evolution of criticisms and their targets. The targets show the increasing social function and complexity of today's scientific book review enterprise.