Eighteenth Century Female Authors: Women and Science in the<i>Coruña Corpus of English Scientific Writing</i>

Moskowich, Isabel

doi:10.1080/07268602.2013.857570

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“…The contrast can be seen in examples (5) and (6) (6) They look very pretty when dried in that way, because, though they have lost all their spines and suckers, the spots where these appendages were attached form a sort of pattern in regular rows or zones over the surface of the animal. (Agassiz, 1859:8) As regards the use of adverbial subordinators across genres, it appears to be very similar to that found in earlier studies (Moskowich 2013;Moskowich and Monaco 2014), and is unequally represented across the seven genres for which we have samples. Adverbial subordinators abound in Treatise (5.5 nf) and Textbook (5.3 nf).…”

Section: Isabel Moskowich and Leida María Monaco Linking Ideas In Womsupporting

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“…Lakoff (1990:50) claims that there are users of "high-involvement styles" and users of "considerate styles". As argued elsewhere (Moskowich, 2013), and in terms of power relations, the former are considered to be domineering whereas the latter are said to be dominated in discourse interaction. This could perhaps be also applied not only to the degree of involvement but also to the ability to use and express abstract thought.…”

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Linking ideas in women’s writing: evidence from the Coruña Corpus

Moskowich

Monaco

2016

Rev. lingüíst. leng. apl.

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This paper provides an overview of some rhetorical devices found in scientific works by late Modern English women. We will focus on apparently marginal linguistic elements as devices fundamental for the expression of logical reasoning in different disciplines. We have based our study on four subcorpora in the Coruña Corpus of English Scientific Writing, so that the behaviour and distribution of rhetorical devices will be studied at a microscopic level and attending not only to how they appear in each discipline, but also taking into consideration elements such as time and genre. Our conclusions are limited but we observe the effort women made at a moment when their role in society was not related to knowledge. In general there is an overall increase in the frequency of features typical of an abstract style as well as an increase of conjuncts and adverbial subordinators as linking devices.

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Section: Isabel Moskowich and Leida María Monaco Linking Ideas In Womsupporting

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Linking ideas in women’s writing: evidence from the Coruña Corpus

Moskowich

Monaco

2016

Rev. lingüíst. leng. apl.

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“…Cuando estudió la lengua vernácula de Belfast, Leslie Milroy descubrió que en ocasiones las mujeres se comportaban lingüísticamente como los hombres (Milroy 1987). Esto ocurría en la zona donde existía un alto índice de desempleo masculino y donde las mujeres eran quienes salían a trabajar.…”

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And Other Things: Un estudio sobre los "extenders" en textos científicos en inglés del siglo XVIII

Sánchez Barreiro

2024

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La utilización de los "extenders", frases del tipo "or whatever" o "and things like that", que aparecen habitualmente al final de una enumeración, es tremendamente habitual en contextos orales e informales. Sin embargo, su análisis en entornos escritos y menos coloquiales ha tenido menos relevancia. Ciertamente, estos elementos lingüísticos comprenden un conjunto de estructuras consideradas propias del lenguaje impreciso, lo que podría hacer suponer que no tienen especial cabida en según qué registros. El presente trabajo supone una aproximación a los "extenders" desde otro punto de vista, evidenciando su uso también en los textos científicos en inglés desde bien temprano en su historia y de forma muy especial en inglés moderno. Colección "Studies in English Language and Literature (SELAL)", nº 4

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“…This may be interpreted in terms of the type of intended addressee of textbooks. At that time, women wrote textbooks as well as other instructional material for children or for other women (Moskowich, 2013;Crespo, 2015) as illustrated in the examples below:…”

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At close range: prefaces and other text types in the Coruña Corpus of English Scientific Writing

Crespo

Moskowich

2016

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What we nowadays term "front matter" was conceived of in the past as a direct address to the reader. Over time, standard formulae were developed and certain rhetorical devices consolidated. Late modern authors were familiar with the highly conventionalised patterns of prefaces and dedications and employed their "discursive freedom" in their scientific works even though the style used for the transmission of scientific knowledge was also changing and being standardised. This paper revolves precisely around the either parallel or divergent development of prefaces to scientific works and the body of the texts themselves. In order to study such evolutions we have analysed samples written by women between 1700 and 1900 in the Coruña Corpus of English Scientific Writing. The scrutiny of some linguistic elements generally admitted to express involvement have rendered a decline in the use of involvement features but we assume that frequency of use of the same features should be different in both prefaces and actual works. Unexpectedly, the overall frequency of these features is higher in the texts than in their corresponding prefaces.

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Eighteenth Century Female Authors: Women and Science in theCoruña Corpus of English Scientific Writing

Cited by 9 publications

References 13 publications

Linking ideas in women’s writing: evidence from the Coruña Corpus

Linking ideas in women’s writing: evidence from the Coruña Corpus

And Other Things: Un estudio sobre los "extenders" en textos científicos en inglés del siglo XVIII

At close range: prefaces and other text types in the Coruña Corpus of English Scientific Writing

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