
Medical Writing in Early Modern English
Title:
Medical Writing in Early Modern English
Author:
Series (if any):
Studies in English Language
Format:
Hardback
Number of pages:
320 pages, 13 Tables, black and white; 10 Halftones, unspecified; 33 Line drawings, unspecified
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13:
9780521117661
EAN:
9780521117661
Classifications:
Linguistics
Weight (g):
768
Dimensions (mm):
235 x 161 x 21
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
Provides a new perspective on the evolution of the language of medicine, based on a large electronic corpus of medical texts. It is useful for researchers and students within several fields, including the development of special languages, genre and register analysis, corpus linguistics, historical pragmatics, and medical and cultural history.




















