Product Description: Medical writing tells us a great deal about how the language of science has developed in constructing and communicating knowledge in English. This volume provides a new perspective on the evolution of the special language of medicine, based on the electronic corpus of Early Modern English Medical Texts, containing over two million words of medical writing from 1500 to 1700...read more

Product Description: 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...read more

Electronic corpus of half-a-million words including three traditions of medical writing (surgical treatises, specialized texts, and remedy books) from c. 1375 to c. 1500, and an appendix of recipes from c. 1330. Most text samples come from printed editions, but new material (unpublished theses, new transcripts) is also offered. Includes MEMT presenter software suite to view and browse texts and perform corpus searches.

Product Description: This book investigates linguistic variation as a complex continuum of language use from standard to nonstandard. In our view, these notions can only be established through mutual definition, and they cannot exist without the opposite pole...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)