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Intensification in Eighteenth Century Medical Writing
Journal of English Linguistics ( IF 0.542 ) Pub Date : 2021-01-15 , DOI: 10.1177/0075424220982649
Turo Hiltunen 1
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While intensifiers are primarily associated with informal spoken registers, they serve important interpersonal functions also in more formal registers like academic prose. The use of intensifiers in scientific writing has accordingly been explored in Present-Day English, and previous studies have also investigated diachronic changes in this register in Middle and Early Modern English. However, the Late Modern English period remains largely unexplored, despite the fact that at least in medical writing it represents an important transition period both intellectually and textually. To follow up on the trends and developments established in previous work, this paper explores the patterns of intensification in eighteenth century medical writing using Late Modern English Medical Texts (LMEMT; Taavitsainen et al. 2019), which contains a large collection of texts representing different areas of medicine. While the intensifiers that are selected for study are ubiquitous in the data, their frequency varies considerably between individual texts, and this variation is often linked to the characteristics of individual sub-registers. At the same time, the use of intensifiers in this period is characterized by stability rather than dramatic change, despite ongoing changes in the sociocultural context of medicine. Along with providing a detailed investigation of the frequency of the main intensifiers in different categories of medical writing of the period, the analysis describes their co-selection patterns with particular adjectives.



中文翻译:

十八世纪医学写作中的强化

强化词主要与非正式口语记录有关,但它们在重要的人际关系中也起着重要作用,例如在学术散文等更正式的记录中。因此,当今英语已经探索了在科学写作中使用增强器的方法,并且先前的研究也调查了中古英语和现代英语中该寄存器的历时变化。然而,尽管至少在医学写作中,它代表了智力和文本上的重要过渡时期,但现代英语晚期仍未得到充分开发。为了跟上先前工作中确立的趋势和发展,本文探讨了使用现代近代英语医学文本(LMEMT; Taavitsainen等人2019)的18世纪医学写作的强化模式,其中包含代表不同医学领域的大量文本。尽管选择用于研究的增强器在数据中无处不在,但它们的频率在各个文本之间有很大的不同,并且这种变化通常与各个子寄存器的特性有关。同时,尽管医学社会文化背景不断变化,但在此期间使用增强剂的特点是稳定而不是剧烈的变化。除了详细调查该时期医学写作不同类别中主要增强器的频率外,该分析还介绍了它们与特定形容词的共选模式。它们的频率在各个文本之间有很大的不同,并且这种变化通常与各个子寄存器的特性有关。同时,尽管医学社会文化背景不断变化,但在此期间使用增强剂的特点是稳定而不是剧烈的变化。除了详细调查该时期医学写作不同类别中主要增强器的频率外,该分析还介绍了它们与特定形容词的共选模式。它们的频率在各个文本之间有很大的不同,并且这种变化通常与各个子寄存器的特性有关。同时,尽管医学社会文化背景不断变化,但在此期间使用增强剂的特点是稳定而不是剧烈的变化。除了详细调查该时期医学写作不同类别中主要增强器的频率外,该分析还介绍了它们与特定形容词的共选模式。尽管医学的社会文化背景不断发生变化。除了详细调查该时期医学写作不同类别中主要增强器的频率外,该分析还介绍了它们与特定形容词的共选模式。尽管医学的社会文化背景不断发生变化。除了详细调查该时期医学写作不同类别中主要增强器的频率外,该分析还介绍了它们与特定形容词的共选模式。

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