Early Modern English Medical Texts
Corpus description and studies
Editors
| University of Helsinki
| University of Tampere
The corpus Early Modern English Medical Texts (EMEMT) is the second component of the Corpus of Early English Medical Writing (CEEM), a three-part series of historical corpora of medical writing from 1375-1800. EMEMT contains a two-million word representative sample of the entire field of English medical writings that appeared in print between 1500 and 1700, and provides continuity to Middle English Medical Texts (MEMT), published on CD-ROM by John Benjamins in 2005.
The EMEMT corpus includes c. 230 texts, ranging from theoretical treatises rooted in academic traditions of medicine to popularized and utilitarian texts verging on household literature. The texts are grouped into six text categories that facilitate systematic research into the history of medical writing in its disciplinary context: general treatises and textbooks; treatises on specific topics; recipe collections and materia medica ; regimen and health guides; surgical treatises; and samples of the first scientific journal, the Philosophical Transactions.
EMEMT is released on CD-Rom with EMEMT Presenter, purpose-designed software by Raymond Hickey.
The corpus is published with a book, Early Modern English Medical Texts: Corpus Description and Studies, edited by Irma Taavitsainen & Päivi Pahta.
[Not in series, 160] 2010. xv, 370 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Preface
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vii–viii
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List of contributors
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ix–xii
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List of abbreviations
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xiii–xiv
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Conventions used in this book
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xv–xvi
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1–8
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Part I. Background
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11–12
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13–28
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29–54
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Part II. Corpus description
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57–62
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Corpus categories
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65–72
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73–100
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101–110
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111–118
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119–126
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127–132
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133–146
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Part III. Studies
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149–150
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151–166
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167–190
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191–214
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Part IV. Technical aspects
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217–218
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219–278
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279–290
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Early Modern English Medical Texts: Corpus bibliography
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291–344
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References
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345–362
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Name index
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363–366
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Subject index
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367–370
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“A most welcome addition to the world of diachronic English corpora. [...] I do not know any diachronic corpus of this dimension which is accompanied by such a wealth of instructive information. This is actually where corpus users should start before they embark on more sophisticated automatic analyses of ever-growing amounts of data and this is where they should return to when they seek explanations for their corpus findings.”
Thomas Kohnen, Universität zu Köln, in Journal of Historical Pragmatics, Vol. 14:2 (2013)
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Subjects
Electronic/Multimedia Products
Linguistics
BIC Subject: CF/2AB – Linguistics/English
BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General