lnu.sePublications
Change search
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf
"Strong Churlish Purging Pills": Multi-adjectival Premodification in Early Modern Medical Writing in English
University of Helsinki, Finland.
2014 (English)In: Diachronic Corpus Pragmatics / [ed] Irma Taavitsainen, Andreas H. Jucker, Jukka Tuominen, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014, p. 157-188Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

This article looks at the frequency and use of sequences of two or more attributive adjectives in early modern medical writing in English. Taking as a starting point the observation that long sequences of premodifiers are one of the many linguistic features that add complexity to present-day academic writing, I examine the situation diachronically and pragmatically during the period when the scholastic style of thought gave way to empiricism. The study will argue that while a modest increase in multi-adjectival premodifiers can be observed over the timeline, the observation can be largely attributed to pragmatic contexts which arose from the practice of early modern medicine and which, by and large, cannot be considered a predictor of present-day scientific style.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014. p. 157-188
Series
Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, ISSN 0922-842X ; 243
Keywords [en]
historical, english, corpus linguistics, adjectives, pre modification
National Category
Specific Languages
Research subject
Humanities, English
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-61987ISBN: 9789027270719 (electronic)ISBN: 9789027256485 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:lnu-61987DiVA, id: diva2:1085891
Available from: 2017-03-30 Created: 2017-03-30 Last updated: 2018-01-13Bibliographically approved

Open Access in DiVA

No full text in DiVA

Other links

Info about chapter

Authority records

Tyrkkö, Jukka

Search in DiVA

By author/editor
Tyrkkö, Jukka
Specific Languages

Search outside of DiVA

GoogleGoogle Scholar

isbn
urn-nbn

Altmetric score

isbn
urn-nbn
Total: 78 hits
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf