Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics

<p>This collection showcases original research highlighting innovations in the application of corpus linguistic methods to the study of English historical medical discourse.</p><p>The volume builds on recent work expanding the contours of health communication research to extend to medical texts of the past, whose preservation allows for a clearer understanding of changes to medical knowledge and practices over time through their production, reception, and use. Chapters explore how corpus linguistic methods allow for a critical examination of how this past medical knowledge is mediated through language across a diverse range of health issues, time periods, textual genres, and sociocultural contexts. While focusing on the English language, the collection demonstrates a point of entry for future work applying corpus linguistic methodologies to historical medical texts more broadly across other languages, periods, and texts to continue growing this burgeoning area of research.</p><p>This book will be of interest to scholars in corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, medical humanities, and historical linguistics.</p>