"This volume focuses on the relationship and interaction of language and science between 1700 and 1900. It pays particular attention to English history writing in Late Modern English as compiled in the Corpus of History English Texts (CHET), a newly released subcorpus of the Coruña Corpus of English Scientific Writing. The chapters cover methodological issues, the period and the status of discipline itself, as well as pilot studies for the description of scientific discourse using CHET. They embrace topics in several linguistic fields: discourse analysis, syntax, semantics, morphosyntax. The studies take into account extralinguistic parameters of texts, such as year of publication, sex of the author, geographical provenance of authors and the communicative formats/genres to which the text sample belongs. In the particular case of CHET, the collected samples can be grouped in eight different categories and such categories, as well as the above-mentioned metadata information, can be used to search the corpus. The Corpus of History English Texts (CHET), accompanied by the Coruña Corpus Tool (CCT) purpose-designed software by IrLab, is accessible online at the Repositorio Universidade Coruña at http://hdl.handle.net/2183/21849"--.

• Writing History in Late Modern English
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Table of contents
• About this book
• Writing history in Late Modern English: Explorations of the Coruña Corpus – A Preface
  • References
• Chapter 1. A review of the development of historical writing and writers in English from 1700 to 1900
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Conceptual frame of reference
  • 3. General outline of the discipline and its main representatives
  • 4. Conclusion
  • References
• Chapter 2. “There were always Indians passing to and fro”: Notes on the representation of Native Americans in CHET documentsNotes on the representation of Native Americans in CHET documents
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The documents under investigation
  • 3. Native Americans in CHET
    • 3.1 Cruelty, warfare, and other clichés
    • 3.2 Ideology in language representation: Wigwam words and eloquent speeches
    • 3.2 Ideology in language representation: Wigwam words and eloquent speeches
    • 3.3 Interpreters and scouts, missionaries and trappers
  • 4. Concluding remarks
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
    • Primary sources
    • Secondary sources
• Chapter 3. An introduction to CHET, the Corpus of History English texts: An introduction to CHET, the Corpus of History English texts
  • 1. Historical knowledge
  • 2. Compilation principles in CHET
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
• Chapter 4. Typical linguistic patterns of English History texts from the eighteenth to the nineteenth century: An information-theoretic approach
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Data and methodology
    • 2.1 Corpora
    • 2.2 Detecting and inspecting variation with information-theoretic measures
      • 2.2.1 Feature detection
      • 2.2.2 Feature inspection
  • 3. Analyses
    • 3.1 Typical linguistic patterns of CHET
    • 3.2 Productivity of typical patterns
      • 3.2.1 Nominal patterns with prepositional phrases
      • 3.2.2 To-infinitive
  • 4. Summary and discussion
  • References
• Chapter 5. Exploring the narrative dimension in late Modern English history texts
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The multidimensional analysis and the “narrative” dimension
  • 3. Corpus and methodology
  • 4. Analysis of data
    • 4.1 Variation across time and disciplines
    • 4.2 Variation across genres within eighteenth-century CHET
  • 5. Concluding remarks
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Appendix. Individual dimension 4 scores per text
• Chapter 6. Time and history: A preliminary approach to binomials in late Modern English astronomy and history texts
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Binomials
    • 2.1 Definition
    • 2.2 Formal structure of binomials and word class of constituents
    • 2.3 Function
    • 2.4 Semantic structure
  • 3. Methodology
  • 4. Results
    • 4.1 Binomials in the Corpus of English Texts on Astronomy (CETA)
      • 4.1.1 Word class of constituents and connectors
      • 4.1.2 Semantic structure
    • 4.2 Binomials in the Corpus of History English Texts (CHET)
      • 4.2.1 Word class of constituents and connectors
      • 4.2.2 Semantic structure
  • 5. Final remarks
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
• Chapter 7. “Were this eſtimation, however, to be depended on”: Inversion conditionals as evidence of paradigmatic change in CHET
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Conditionals and their versatility as a resource for scientific writing
  • 3. Beyond if: The formal variability of conditionals
    • 3.1 Inversion conditionals
    • 3.2 Some grammatical characteristics of inversion conditionals
  • 4. Inversion conditionals in use: Previous studies
    • 4.1 Inversion conditionals as evidence of paradigmatic change
  • 5. Corpus and methodology
  • 6. Results and discussion
  • 7. Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
• Chapter 8. Modal verb categories in CHET
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Modality and modal categories
    • 2.1 Modal verbs
  • 3. The texts, the method, and results
    • 3.1 The texts and the method
    • 3.2 Results
  • 4. Modal verb categories
    • 4.1 Epistemic modals
      • 4.1.1 Inferentiality
    • 4.2 Deontic modals
    • 4.3 Dynamic modals
  • 5. Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
• Chapter 9. A corpus-based study of some certainty adverbs in the Corpus of History English Texts
  • 1. Introduction and objectives
  • 2. Data and methodology
  • 3. Analysis
  • 4. Concluding remarks
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
• Chapter 10. How intimate was the tone of female history writing in the Modern period?: Evidence from the Corpus of History English Texts
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Authorial presence in scientific discourse: Identity and interaction
  • 3. Materials and methodology
  • 4. Analysis and discussion
    • 4.1 The time variable
    • 4.2 The communicative format variable
    • 4.3 Detailed analysis of the most frequent involvement features
  • 5. Concluding remarks
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
• Chapter 11. Neither I nor we: Inexplicit authorial voice in eighteenth century academic texts
  • 1. Authorial voice
  • 2. Authors in CETA and CHET
    • 2.1 Thomas Birch (1705–1766)
    • 2.2 Walter Anderson (?-1800)
    • 2.3 Matthew Stewart (1717–1785)
  • 3. First person pronouns and other stance/engagement markers
    • 3.1 Birch’s authorial voice
    • 3.2 Anderson’s authorial voice
    • 3.3 Stewart’s authorial voice
  • 4. Cross-case analysis
  • 5. Final remarks on exceptional voices
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
• Chapter 12. Do writers express the same attitude in historical genres?: A contrastive analysis of attitude devices
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Attitude devices
  • 3. The Enlightenment
  • 4. Procedure
    • 4.1 Material
    • 4.2 Method
  • 5. Results and discussion
  • 6. Conclusions
  • References
• Chapter 13. On cognitive complexity in scientific discourse: A corpus-based study on additive coherence relations
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Additive focus operators
  • 3. Additive connectives
  • 4. Methodology
  • 5. Data analysis
    • 5.1 Gender
    • 5.2 Place of origin
    • 5.3 Text types
  • 6. Conclusions and suggestions for further research
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
• Index