New arguments for new audiences: a corpus-based analysis of interpersonal strategies in Early Modern English medical recipes

Marttila, Ville

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“…Apart from personal reference the authors/compilers used many strategies to convince the readers that the remedies described in the compilations were actually effective (cf. Wear 2000: 85;Marttila 2011). This was done by, for instance, referring to the source of the medicine, usually some medical authorities.…”

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Medieval medical writings and their readers: communication of knowledge in Middle English medical recipes

Sylwanowicz¹

2023

Linguistica Silesiana

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In late medieval England learned medicine leapt the walls of universities and became available to people with no formal medical training (cf. also Jones 1999, Jones 2004. This widespread interest in medicine was partly triggered by the vernacularisation of medical writings. This process involved, among other things, (1) gradual evolution of conventions and norms for, e.g. recipe writing (cf. Carroll 2004) and/or (2) employment of various strategies to adapt the texts to the new audience. The study will attempt to explain what strategies were employed to adapt medical texts, in particular recipes, to the intended audience, i.e., "who speaks [writes] what language to whom and when" (Fishman 1979: 15). For instance, some recipes contain foreign (mostly French and Latin) or sophisticated terminology whereas other recipe collections make use of vernacular resources. This implies that the language of medieval recipes might be the indicator of a social distinction between the readers. The data for the paper come from the Middle English Medical Texts (MEMT), a computerised collection of medical treatises written between 1330 and 1500.

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Medieval medical writings and their readers: communication of knowledge in Middle English medical recipes

Sylwanowicz¹

2023

Linguistica Silesiana

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“…Interaction in written texts has been studied, although not as intensively as interaction in oral texts, from different linguistic approaches (e.g., Crismore, 1989;Hoey, 1983Hoey, , 2001Hyland, 2005;Myers, 1999;Nystrand, 1986;Thompson, 2001;Thompson & Thetela, 1995), although, with few exceptions (e.g., Liao, 2007Liao, , 2011Mason, 2000), from a monolingual angle (see Marttila, 2011, for an examination of textual strategies in English 17th-century remedy books that address a lay audience).…”

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Reading minds: A study of deictic shifts in translated written interaction between mental-health professionals and their readers

Ricoy

2021

LANS-TTS

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The practice of knowledge mediation in written texts relating to the health sciences has hitherto received limited attention within Translation Studies. The overall aim of this study is to explore writer-reader interaction in a bilingual corpus of medical leaflets published on the website of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (UK). In order to do this, a comparative analysis of English source texts and Spanish target texts was conducted to identify shifts in personal reference, which served to contrast patterns in knowledge transfer processes between mental health experts and their target audiences. The study is underpinned by Thompson and Thetela’s (1995) tenet that interactive and interactional features have to be considered in conjunction. It seeks to make a contribution to the relatively understudied field of how interaction patterns differ across cultural and linguistic settings. The corpus is of special interest due to the sensitivity of its subject matter, the varied constituency it addresses and the fact that the translated texts were produced and revised by mental health professionals.

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“…Thus, accuracy in naming medical mixtures or identifying a medical disorder was not the only requirement. It was also necessary to convince potential lay readers that the described remedies were actually eff ective (Marttila 2011;Sylwanowicz 2013;Tyrkkö 2014;Wear 2000).…”

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Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies

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The consonantal spellings of Old English (OE) were signifi cantly infl uenced by the consonantal spellings of Old Irish (OI). 1) vs. (post-vocalic) : though OE did not have a distinction between /θ/ and /ð/, OI did, spelling this as vs. (postvocalic) . 2) vs. : though OE did not have a distinction between /h/ and /x/, OI did, spelling the latter as . 3) and : both spellings appear to be from Irish. 4) : spellings of the "mixed voice" type, including "cg", occur in OI, where they can spell either single or geminate voiced plosives. 5) (and ): almost certainly in fi nal position in OE represent singles, not geminates, as they can in OI. 6) Spelling rules referring to post-vocalic position: all cases show OE spelling having had, like OI spelling, rules referring to post-vocalic position, which appear to be additionally evidenced by "illogical doubling" in Northumbrian. 7) The meaning of before front Vs: in OE spelling as in OI spelling, but not as in Roman Latin spelling, before front Vs spells a palatal approximant rather than a palatal aff ricate. The overall conclusion is that the OE spelling system was developed by Irish missionary linguists.

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New arguments for new audiences: a corpus-based analysis of interpersonal strategies in Early Modern English medical recipes

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Medieval medical writings and their readers: communication of knowledge in Middle English medical recipes

Medieval medical writings and their readers: communication of knowledge in Middle English medical recipes

Reading minds: A study of deictic shifts in translated written interaction between mental-health professionals and their readers

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