Linking ideas in women’s writing: evidence from the Coruña Corpus
This paper provides an overview of some rhetorical devices found in scientific works by late Modern English women. We will focus on apparently marginal linguistic elements as devices fundamental for the expression of logical reasoning in different disciplines. We have based our study on four subcorp...
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| description | This paper provides an overview of some rhetorical devices found in scientific works by late Modern English women. We will focus on apparently marginal linguistic elements as devices fundamental for the expression of logical reasoning in different disciplines. We have based our study on four subcorpora in the Coruña Corpus of English Scientific Writing, so that the behaviour and distribution of rhetorical devices will be studied at a microscopic level and attending not only to how they appear in each discipline, but also taking into consideration elements such as time and genre. Our conclusions are limited but we observe the effort women made at a moment when their role in society was not related to knowledge. In general there is an overall increase in the frequency of features typical of an abstract style as well as an increase of conjuncts and adverbial subordinators as linking devices. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1124bfe0f8d04430a860c6a88c13fdbe2022-12-22T00:53:47ZengUniversidad Politécnica de ValenciaRevista de Lingüística y Lenguas Aplicadas1886-24381886-62982016-07-01111354910.4995/rlyla.2016.46604345Linking ideas in women’s writing: evidence from the Coruña CorpusIsabel Moskowich0Leida María Monaco1Universidade da CoruñaUniversidade da CoruñaThis paper provides an overview of some rhetorical devices found in scientific works by late Modern English women. We will focus on apparently marginal linguistic elements as devices fundamental for the expression of logical reasoning in different disciplines. We have based our study on four subcorpora in the Coruña Corpus of English Scientific Writing, so that the behaviour and distribution of rhetorical devices will be studied at a microscopic level and attending not only to how they appear in each discipline, but also taking into consideration elements such as time and genre. Our conclusions are limited but we observe the effort women made at a moment when their role in society was not related to knowledge. In general there is an overall increase in the frequency of features typical of an abstract style as well as an increase of conjuncts and adverbial subordinators as linking devices.http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/rdlyla/article/view/4660Coruña Corpusabstractionlogical reasoningfemale writingscientific Englishlate Modern English |
| spellingShingle | Isabel Moskowich Leida María Monaco Linking ideas in women’s writing: evidence from the Coruña Corpus Revista de Lingüística y Lenguas Aplicadas Coruña Corpus abstraction logical reasoning female writing scientific English late Modern English |
| title | Linking ideas in women’s writing: evidence from the Coruña Corpus |
| title_full | Linking ideas in women’s writing: evidence from the Coruña Corpus |
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| title_short | Linking ideas in women’s writing: evidence from the Coruña Corpus |
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| topic | Coruña Corpus abstraction logical reasoning female writing scientific English late Modern English |
| url | http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/rdlyla/article/view/4660 |
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