Overview

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 CETA, together with the Coruña Corpus Tool purpose-designed software by IrLab, was originally made available with the volume on CD-rom.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

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Author:   Isabel Moskowich (University of A Coruña) ,  Begoña Crespo (University of A Coruña) ,  Isabel Moskowich (University of A Coruña) ,  Inés Lareo (University of A Coruña)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Weight:   0.625kg
ISBN:  

9789027211941

ISBN 10:   9027211949
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   04 July 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Acknowledgments; 2. Preface (by Rabade, Luis Iglesias); 3. 1. Late Modern English in its historical context (by Beal, Joan C.); 4. 2. Astronomy as scientific knowledge in Modern England (by Crespo, Begona); 5. 3. CETA as a tool for the study of modern astronomy in English (by Moskowich, Isabel); 6. 4. Astronomical discourse in 18th and 19th century texts: A new-born model in the transmission of science (by Crespo, Begona); 7. 5. Patterns of English scientific writing in the 18th century: Adjectives and other building-blocks (by Moskowich, Isabel); 8. 6. Accounting for observations of the heavens in the 18th century: New nouns to explain old phenomena (by Camina Rioboo, Gonzalo); 9. 7. Subject specific vocabulary in astronomy texts: A diachronic survey of the Corpus of English Texts on Astronomy (by Cantos, Pascual); 10. 8. A corpus-driven analysis of complex predicates in 18th century scientific writings in CETA (by Lareo, Ines); 11. 9. The emergence and evolution of the pattern N + PREP + V-ing in historical scientific texts (by Gray, Bethany); 12. 10. An analysis of hedging in eighteenth century English astronomy texts (by Alonso Almeida, Francisco); 13. 11. Thematic structure in eighteenth century astronomical texts: A study of a small sample of articles from the Corpus of English Texts on Astronomy (by Banks, David); 14. Index

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All articles make extensive use of the Corpus of English Texts on Astronomy (CETA), a subcorpus of the Coruna Corpus of English Scientific Writing, and delightfully the book comes with a copy of the corpus on CD-ROM. This makes the volume another valuable addition to the growing number of similar products published by John Benjamins (see Taavitsainen and Pahta, 2010; and Kytoe et al., 2011) -- Elena Pierazzo, King's College London, in Literary and Linguistic Computing, Vol. 28, No. 3, 2013

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