ThePhilosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 1675-1975
A sociohistorical discourse analysis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2884904 |
|---|---|
| Authors | D Atkinson (0000-0002-7460-542X, Auburn University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 333-371 |
| Publication date | 1996-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language in Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-4045 • E-ISSN: 1469-8013 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0047404500019205 |
| OpenAlex | W2046490368 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 25 |
| References cited | 30 |
This study traces the evolution of scientific research writing in English from 1675 to 1975. Two separate methods of discourse analysis - rhetorical analysis focusing on broad genre characteristics, and sociolinguistic register analysis - are applied to a large corpus of articles from thePhilosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. The two sets of results are then interpreted vis-à-vis the Royal Society's social history to yield an integrated description. Findings indicate that: (a) research writing in the 17th - 18th centuries was substantially influenced by communicative norms of author-centered genteel conduct; (b) greater attention to methodology and precision in the interest of scientific specialization brought about pronounced textual changes in the 19th century, although gentlemanly norms were still in evidence; and (c) by the late 20th century, expanded theoretical description/discussions appear to have replaced experiments and methods as the rhetorical centerpiece of the research article. (Discourse analysis, rhetorical analysis, register, social studies of science, scientific writing, corpus linguistics
Art · Corpus linguistics · Discourse analysis · Epistemology · Linguistics · Literature · Register (sociolinguistics) · Rhetorical device · Rhetorical question · Scientific writing · Social science · Sociology · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · History · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · linguistics and terminology studies · Philosophy
Speaking and Writing in the University
Corpus Analysis of Scientific and Medical Writing Across Time
Register, Genre, and Style
Register, Genre, and Style
Linguistic Features of the Language of Schooling
Lexical bundles in university spoken and written registers
Scientific experimental articles are modernist stories
The Limits of Variation in Scientific Abstracts – Syntactic and Functional Constraints
Changing patterns of the grammatical stance devices in medical research articles (1970–2020)
Shell noun phrases in scientific writing
Is academic writing less passivized? Corpus-based evidence from research article abstracts in applied linguistics over the past three decades (1990–2019)
Exploring the interactive and interactional metadiscourse in doctoral dissertation writing
The Structure of Scientific Writing
Teaching Academic Writing in English at Arab Universities
Self-mention and uncertain communication in the British Medical Journal (1840–2007)
Linguistic Perspectives on Register
The passive voice in scientific writing through the ages
Academic criticism in Spanish medical discourse
Eighteenth Century Female Authors
The importance of corpus-based research for language teachers
Contrasting rhetorics/contrasting cultures
How bundles in medical research articles have changed structurally and functionally (1970–2020)
Conjunction in sentence and discourse
ThePhilosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 1675-1975
What Do Economists Talk About? A Linguistic Analysis of Published Writing in Economic Journals
Variation across Speech and Writing
A preliminary discourse on the study of natural philosophy.
The Construction of Professional Discourse
The Evolution of Medical Research Writing from 1735 to 1985
The pragmatics of politeness in scientific articles
Totius in Verba
The birth and early days of the Philosophical Transactions
Pump and Circumstance
Modern Evolution of the Experimental Report in Physics
Adverbial stance types in English
Genre Analysis
A Scholar and a Gentleman
The House of Experiment in Seventeenth-Century England
ThePhilosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 1675-1975
Drift and the Evolution of English Style
Central Problems in Social Theory
The Manufacture of Knowledge
A Social History of Truth
| Unique citing works | 25 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,83 |
| Citation span | 1996 - 2026 (31) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 24 |