Astronomy ‘playne and simple’

Abstract

This volume includes methodological considerations and descriptions of some of the texts compiled in The Corpus of English Texts on Astronomy (CETA), together with a number of pilot studies using these texts showing how the corpus can be used to investigate English Astronomy writing between 1700 and 1900, from a synchronic and a diachronic perspective. CETA is part of the Coruña Corpus of English Scientific Writing (CC). Since the CC was designed in 2003 with a sampling method by which extracts of 10,000 words were selected, this method has been followed in CETA, with samples from 42 different authors both from Europe and North America. Some extralinguistic parameters, such as year of publication, sex, geographical provenance and text-types/genres have been considered for text selection. According to late Modern English text typology, the samples in CETA can be grouped in eight different categories and such categories, as well as some other metadata information, can be used to search the corpus. CETA, together with the Coruña Corpus Tool purpose-designed software by IrLab, was originally made available with the volume on CD-rom. As of early 2019, these are also accessible online at the Repositorio Universidade Coruña: CCT at http://hdl.handle.net/2183/21850and CETA at https://doi.org/10.17979/spudc.9788497497084

Linguistic Variation and Change in 250 Years of English Scientific Writing: A Data-Driven Approach

“…However, most of the existing work is either based on text samples or starts from predefined linguistic features. Further, there are numerous studies on selected scientific domains, such as medicine or astronomy, e.g., Nevalainen (2006), Moskowich and Crespo (2012) and Taavitsainen and Hiltunen (2019), which work on the basis of fairly small corpora containing hand-selected and often manually annotated material. Typically, such studies are driven from a historical socio-linguistic or pragmatic perspective and focus on selected linguistic phenomena, e.g., forms of address (Taavitsainen and Jucker, 2003).…”

Los modales dinámicos en textos de historia en lengua inglesa (1700-1900)

“…Este corpus, perteneciente al Coruña Corpus of English Scientific Writing (CC) dispone de su propia herramienta informática, Coruña Corpus Tool, 1 que permite hacer búsqueda según criterios sociolingüísticos, como puede ser el sexo o la procedencia, y textuales de acuerdo con el género (tratado, libro de texto, etc.) que se trate (para una descripción de la herramienta véaseMoskowich, Crespo, Lareo & Camiña Rioboo, (2012) y Barsaglini-Castro y Valcarce (2020)). Su uso ha dado lugar a numerosos trabajos sobre género textual, evaluación del léxico, análisis de la perspectiva, efectos pragmáticos de uso de la lengua, entre otros(Moskowich, 2016(Moskowich, , 2017a(Moskowich, , 2017bCrespo, 2017;Álvarez-Gil, 2018;Moskowich & Crespo, 2018Alonso-Almeida & Álvarez-Gil, 2019).En CHET, se ha buscado de manera computarizada concordancias que contengan los siguientes verbos modales centrales: can, could, may, might, shall, should, will, would y must.…”