Taavitsainen I, Pahta P
Early Sci Med. 1998 May;3(2):157-85. doi: 10.1163/157338298x00266.
This article proposes a model for linguistic analysis of scientific thought-styles, combining quantitative and qualitative analyses in the variationist frame and focusing on writings of the scholastic period. The first part of the article considers factors that led to the vernacularisation of scientific writings in fifteenth-century England and the sources, underlying traditions and audiences of these writings. The empirical part focuses on two features typical of scholasticism: references to authorities and the use of prescriptive phrases. The results show statistical differences between varieties of writing. A close semantic analysis reveals a pattern which is related to the underlying layers of tradition and to the sociohistorical background of the texts. The material comes from a computer-readable Corpus of Early English Medical Writing 1375-1750, which the authors are compiling at the University of Helsinki.
本文提出了一种科学思想风格的语言分析模型，该模型在变异主义框架内结合了定量和定性分析，并聚焦于学术时期的著作。文章的第一部分探讨了导致15世纪英国科学著作本土化的因素，以及这些著作的来源、潜在传统和受众。实证部分聚焦于经院哲学的两个典型特征：对权威的引用和规定性短语的使用。结果显示了不同写作变体之间的统计差异。细致的语义分析揭示了一种与传统的底层结构以及文本的社会历史背景相关的模式。材料来自于赫尔辛基大学正在编纂的计算机可读的《1375 - 1750年早期英语医学写作语料库》。
