Richard J Whitt
Biographic Data
| ID | 1165470 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard J Whitt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard J |
| FAMILY NAME | Whitt |
| SIGNATURE | WHITT R J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nottingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5249-671X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Viewpoint in Eighteenth-Century Birthing Narratives
This article provides a literary linguistic analysis of narrative viewpoint in a selection of eighteenth-century midwifery manuals. The eighteenth century is when the medicalisation of childbirth gained pace and the obstetric surgeon (known as the “man-midwife”) gradually displaced the female midwife from her heretofore exclusive province of assisting with normal deliveries. A range of sociomedical ideologies surrounding childbirth can be found i…
The poetics of sexual violence in three African-American women’s neo-slave narratives
This paper focuses on the representation of sexual violence in the neo-slave narratives of Margaret Walker, Octavia E. Butler and Toni Morrison. Through an exploration of mind-modelling in three key scenes, a range of linguistic techniques are employed to elucidate the psychological component of such violence. Each of the three authors examined here exposes, in stylistically distinct ways, different but equally devasting aspects of the violence v…
Schemata of estrangement in Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed
Ursula Le Guin’s novel The Dispossessed (1974) is the first literary treatment of anarchic utopianism, presenting the society on the moon Anarres as operating on social principles lacking any sort of State or governmental oversight (known in the novel as Odonianism). Scholarship on Le Guin’s novel has focused primarily on the overt political and philosophical aspects of the text, while the scant linguistic scholarship goes no further than uncover…
Epistemic space and key concepts in early and late modern medical discourse
This article provides a corpus-driven overview of the ‘epistemic space’ surrounding the use of two lockwords of Early and Late Modern English writings on midwifery and childbirth, child and uterus . Rather than searching for epistemic stance markers themselves, this study employs the ‘bottom-up’ approach by examining the propositions containing these lockwords, and then seeing what particular epistemic meanings are signalled by the surrounding di…
Trauma, Mind Style, and Unreliable Narration in Toni Morrison’s Home
This article provides a twofold reading of Toni Morrison’s novel Home. In the first instance, the stylistic representation of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is explored in relation to Frank’s mind style; this is done through a focused examination on passages related to Frank’s misremembered murder of a girl during his time as a soldier in the Korean War. Frank’s guilt and faulty memories, and his lingering experience of PTSD, lead to the i…
Satire in Eighteenth-Century Medical Discourse
This paper examines Tobias Smollett’s scathing assessment in the Critical Review of Elizabeth Nihell’s midwifery treatise, Treatise on the Art of Midwifery (1760), a polemic against the use of instruments in childbirth and the increasing popularity of man-midwifery. This continues with Nihell publishing a response to Smollett’s review, and then Smollett responding to Nihell’s response. The Nihell-Smollett exchange brings discourses surrounding tw…
Evidentiality and propositional scope in Early Modern German
This paper provides an overview of verbal markers of evidentiality in Early Modern German (1650 to 1800) in light of Boye’s propositional scope hypothesis. The markers under investigation include the semi-auxiliary scheinen (‘to shine, appear, seem’) and the perception verbs sehen (‘see’) and hören (‘hear’). I show that, although Boye’s hypothesis sheds new light on and calls into question previous diachronic accounts of scheinen , it appears not…
Evidentiality in Early Modern English Medical Treatises (1500–1700)
This study investigates diachronic trends in the use of evidential markers in Early Modern English medical treatises (1500–1700), with data drawn from the Corpus of Early Modern English Medical Texts . The state of medical thought and practice in Early Modern England is discussed, with particular focus on the changing role that Scholasticism played during this period. The nature of evidentiality and types of scholastic vs. non-scholastic evidence…
Das Paradigma deutscher Modalpartikeln
(Inter)Subjectivity and evidential perception verbs in English and German
Evidentiality, polysemy, and the verbs of perception in English and German
Evidentiality and Perception Verbs in English and German
Evidentiality, the linguistic encoding of a speaker’s or writer’s evidence for an asserted proposition, has begun to receive serious attention from linguists only in the last quarter century. Much of this attention has focused on languages that encode evidentiality in the grammar, while much less interest has been shown in languages that express evidentiality through means other than inflectional morphology. In English and German, for instance, t…
Auditory evidentiality in English and German
(Inter)Subjectivity and evidential perception verbs in English and German
Auditory evidentiality in English and German
Evidentiality and propositional scope in Early Modern German
This paper provides an overview of verbal markers of evidentiality in Early Modern German (1650 to 1800) in light of Boye’s propositional scope hypothesis. The markers under investigation include the semi-auxiliary scheinen (‘to shine, appear, seem’) and the perception verbs sehen (‘see’) and hören (‘hear’). I show that, although Boye’s hypothesis sheds new light on and calls into question previous diachronic accounts of scheinen , it appears not…
Auditory evidentiality in English and German
Evidentiality, polysemy, and the verbs of perception in English and German
Evidentiality and Perception Verbs in English and German
Evidentiality, the linguistic encoding of a speaker’s or writer’s evidence for an asserted proposition, has begun to receive serious attention from linguists only in the last quarter century. Much of this attention has focused on languages that encode evidentiality in the grammar, while much less interest has been shown in languages that express evidentiality through means other than inflectional morphology. In English and German, for instance, t…
(Inter)Subjectivity and evidential perception verbs in English and German
Das Paradigma deutscher Modalpartikeln
Evidentiality in Early Modern English Medical Treatises (1500–1700)
This study investigates diachronic trends in the use of evidential markers in Early Modern English medical treatises (1500–1700), with data drawn from the Corpus of Early Modern English Medical Texts . The state of medical thought and practice in Early Modern England is discussed, with particular focus on the changing role that Scholasticism played during this period. The nature of evidentiality and types of scholastic vs. non-scholastic evidence…
Evidentiality and propositional scope in Early Modern German
This paper provides an overview of verbal markers of evidentiality in Early Modern German (1650 to 1800) in light of Boye’s propositional scope hypothesis. The markers under investigation include the semi-auxiliary scheinen (‘to shine, appear, seem’) and the perception verbs sehen (‘see’) and hören (‘hear’). I show that, although Boye’s hypothesis sheds new light on and calls into question previous diachronic accounts of scheinen , it appears not…
Epistemic space and key concepts in early and late modern medical discourse
This article provides a corpus-driven overview of the ‘epistemic space’ surrounding the use of two lockwords of Early and Late Modern English writings on midwifery and childbirth, child and uterus . Rather than searching for epistemic stance markers themselves, this study employs the ‘bottom-up’ approach by examining the propositions containing these lockwords, and then seeing what particular epistemic meanings are signalled by the surrounding di…
Trauma, Mind Style, and Unreliable Narration in Toni Morrison’s Home
This article provides a twofold reading of Toni Morrison’s novel Home. In the first instance, the stylistic representation of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is explored in relation to Frank’s mind style; this is done through a focused examination on passages related to Frank’s misremembered murder of a girl during his time as a soldier in the Korean War. Frank’s guilt and faulty memories, and his lingering experience of PTSD, lead to the i…
Satire in Eighteenth-Century Medical Discourse
This paper examines Tobias Smollett’s scathing assessment in the Critical Review of Elizabeth Nihell’s midwifery treatise, Treatise on the Art of Midwifery (1760), a polemic against the use of instruments in childbirth and the increasing popularity of man-midwifery. This continues with Nihell publishing a response to Smollett’s review, and then Smollett responding to Nihell’s response. The Nihell-Smollett exchange brings discourses surrounding tw…
Schemata of estrangement in Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed
Ursula Le Guin’s novel The Dispossessed (1974) is the first literary treatment of anarchic utopianism, presenting the society on the moon Anarres as operating on social principles lacking any sort of State or governmental oversight (known in the novel as Odonianism). Scholarship on Le Guin’s novel has focused primarily on the overt political and philosophical aspects of the text, while the scant linguistic scholarship goes no further than uncover…
Viewpoint in Eighteenth-Century Birthing Narratives
This article provides a literary linguistic analysis of narrative viewpoint in a selection of eighteenth-century midwifery manuals. The eighteenth century is when the medicalisation of childbirth gained pace and the obstetric surgeon (known as the “man-midwife”) gradually displaced the female midwife from her heretofore exclusive province of assisting with normal deliveries. A range of sociomedical ideologies surrounding childbirth can be found i…
The poetics of sexual violence in three African-American women’s neo-slave narratives
This paper focuses on the representation of sexual violence in the neo-slave narratives of Margaret Walker, Octavia E. Butler and Toni Morrison. Through an exploration of mind-modelling in three key scenes, a range of linguistic techniques are employed to elucidate the psychological component of such violence. Each of the three authors examined here exposes, in stylistically distinct ways, different but equally devasting aspects of the violence v…
Philosophy (10 works) · Linguistics (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Art (6 works) · Evidentiality (6 works) · German (5 works) · History (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Perception (5 works) · Sociology (5 works)