The original studies in this volume provide new insights into the history of medical discourse across centuries in both professional and lay texts. The central
Based on an extensive corpus-based study, this revealing book explores how epistemic stance is expressed in the early modern period, and in doing so, presents n
Diachronic corpus pragmatics extends the pragmatic perspective to developments in the history of various languages and uses corpus-linguistic methods to trace t
Written by an interdisciplinary team of scholars, this book offers novel perspectives on the history of medical writing and scientific thought-styles by examini
This volume presents current state-of-the-art discussions in corpus-based linguistic research of the English language. The papers deal with Present-day English,