Middle English recipes
Genre characteristics, text type features and underlying traditions of writing
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12821650 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Irma Taavitsainen (0000-0001-9032-5930, University of Helsinki, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 85-113 |
| Publication date | 2001-02-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Historical Pragmatics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1566-5852 • E-ISSN: 1569-9854 |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/jhp.2.1.05taa |
| OpenAlex | W1991847848 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
This article focuses on Middle English medical recipes and aims to show that the concepts of “genre”, “text type” and “text tradition” provide useful tools for historical discourse analysis, as they operate in different ways and illustrate various sides of medieval texts. Medical recipes are a well-defined procedural genre included in a variety of contexts: they form the major contents of remedybooks, but they are also found within the learned tradition of medical writing. The reception and use of these texts can be studied through their genre contexts and other extralinguistic features. The assessment of their text-type features shows that a higher degree of standardisation is found in remedybooks; academic texts and surgical treatises show more variation. The observed differences cannot be attributed to genre, and the readership was presumably much the same. The underlying traditions seem to have been important: remedybooks were handbooks for consultation to find cures for diseases. The more standardised the format, the more easily the advice was accessible. In contrast, recipes in the learned tradition were included in longer treatises as integral parts for demonstration of the healing principles
Art · Audience measurement · Contrast (vision · Genre analysis · Linguistics · Literature · Medical education · Medical writing · Middle English · Old English · Political science · Variation (astronomy · Variety (cybernetics · Computer Science · History · Medicine · Medieval Literature and History · Philosophy · Psychology · Artificial Intelligence
Women or Healers
Register, Genre, and Style
Lexicalization and Language Change
Register, Genre, and Style
A systemic functional account of modal verbs in late modern English women’s instructive writing (1700–1900)
La configuración textual de las recetas médicas en español (siglos XV-XVI)
Third-person singular present tense inflectional variation in Medieval and Early Modern English scientific texts
If ‐Conditionals as Arguments in Nineteenth‐Century Women's Instructive Writing in English
The problem of data in the cognitive linguistic research on metonymy
Never mind the text types, here's textual force
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.48 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2026 (22) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |