Epistemic space and key concepts in early and late modern medical discourse
An exploration of two genres
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21695482 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard J Whitt (0000-0002-5249-671X, University of Nottingham, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 241-269 |
| Publication date | 2023-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | English Language and Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1360-6743 • E-ISSN: 1469-4379 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s136067432200034x |
| OpenAlex | W4316804716 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 69 |
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 discourse context. Both treatises and periodicals representative of medical writing from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries are examined, thus allowing any diachronic trends characteristic of a period that witnessed much change in midwifery practices, and medicine more broadly, to be uncovered. Data are drawn from the Early Modern English Medical Texts (EMEMT) and Late Modern English Medical Texts (LMEMT) corpora
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Epistemology · Linguistics · Literature · Sociology · Computer Science · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · History · Lexicography and Language Studies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy
The making of man-midwifery
Hedging in Scientific Research Articles
Stancetaking in Discourse
Discourse and Knowledge
Stance
Evaluation in Text
The Scientific Revolution
Medieval and Early Renaissance Medicine
Epistemic Meaning
Corpora in Applied Linguistics
Evaluation
Evidentiality
Knowledge and the Scholarly Medical Traditions
Evidentiality and Perception Verbs in English and German
Evidentiality in Early Modern English Medical Treatises (1500–1700)
A Cross-Linguistic Survey of the Grammaticization of Evidentiality
The birth and early days of the Philosophical Transactions
Laboratory Life
Epistemological positioning and evidentiality in English news discourse
So ADJ/ADV that clause patterns in Early Modern English medical writing
Evidentiality and propositional scope in Early Modern German
Generating Bodies and Gendered Selves
Corpus Approaches to Evaluation
Eighteenth Century British Midwifery
The Founding of the Edinburgh Medical School
Commitments and Styles of European Scientific Thinking
The Nature of Knowledge
Evidentiality
The dynamics of stance constructions
The Audience for Science in Eighteenth Century Edinburgh
Not hedging but implying
Mood and Modality
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |