The Birth of the Academic Article

Le Journal des Scavans and the Philosophical Transactions, 1665-1700
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-78179-830-0
Verlag: Equinox Publishing Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 336 g

This study is a linguistic analysis of the first two academic periodicals from their creation in 1665 until the end of the seventeenth century. These were Le Journal des Scavans in France and the Philosophical Transactions in England. The analysis is carried out within the framework of Systemic Functional Linguistics. The linguistic features and aspects of the theory necessary for understanding the rest of the book are explained, and the historical situation is described in order to place the texts in the context from which they derived. The corpus is made up of a selection of issues for the years 1665, 1675, 1685 and 1694/5, totalling over 66,000 words for Le Journal des Scavans, and over 77,000 words for the Philosophical Transactions. Thematic structure and progression, types of process, expressions of modality, and nominalised processes are studied in each of the periodicals and the results compared. It is shown that differences in the results for the two journals derive from differing editorial decisions, which themselves are engendered by the historical context.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Banks, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Getting Things Started: By Way of Introduction Chapter 2: Linguistic Background Chapter 3: Historical Background Chapter 4: The Documents to be Used: A Corpus Chapter 5: Thematic Structure: A Starting Point Chapter 6: Transitivity: Actions, Events, States Chapter 7: Modality: Possibility, Ability, Obligation Chapter 8: Nominalization: Reifying Processes Chapter 9: Winding Up and Winding Down: By Way of Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Banks, David
David Banks is Emeritus Professor of English Linguistics at the Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France.