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Popularizing Learned Medicine in Late-17th-Century England
This book offers an overview of the vernacularization and popularization of learned medical knowledge in the late seventeenth century, a particularly significant moment in English history on account of the social and cultural transformations in progress at the time. Starting with a survey of the medical texts that were translated from Latin into English in such a pivotal period, the book provides an insight into their context of production and an analysis of the actual translation strategies and procedures that were exploited at the macro- and micro-textual levels in order to disseminate the specialized subject and language of learned medicine to a wider, non-specialized audience. In addition to some very popular texts, including Nicholas Culpeper’s 1649 unauthorized translation of the Royal College of Physicians’s Pharmacopoeia Londinensis, the volume also discusses more obscure and previously neglected publications, which nonetheless played a fundamental role in the popularization of learned medicine.
The Language of Discovery, Exploration and Settlement
This volume offers the first fully-focused study on the language and discourse employed in historical accounts of discovery, exploration and settlement, stretching from the 16th to 19th centuries, and covering areas as far afield as the Americas, Africa, India, Australasia and the Arctic. In the examination of the discourse (and accompanying paratextual features when present), the contributors make use of qualitative and quantitative analysis in order to identify the manner in which the knowledge disseminators of the time adapted, created and exploited the language of the genre in which they were communicating to inform or persuade contemporary readers. The chapters focus, in particular, on six genres: namely, print news, manuscript correspondence, journals, dictionaries, travel books and geography schoolbooks. Knowledge dissemination is mediated through these six different genres, but, in each case, the genre in question conveys three common aspects of knowledge dissemination: the factual, the personal and the ideological. The focus is, as such, on how domain-specific knowledge is mediated in specialized and popularizing discourse in order to address different stakeholders.
Recent Trends in Translation Studies
This volume offers a snapshot of current perspectives on translation studies within the specific historical and socio-cultural framework of Anglo-Italian relations. It addresses research questions relevant to English historical, literary, cultural and language studies, as well as empirical translation studies. The book is divided into four chapters, each covering a specific research area in the scholarly field of translation studies: namely, historiography, literary translation, specialized translation and multimodality. Each case study selected for this volume has been conducted with critical insight and methodological rigour, and makes a valuable contribution to scientific knowledge in the descriptive and applied branches of a discipline that, since its foundation nearly 50 years ago, has concerned itself with the description, theory and practice of translating and interpreting.
Corpus Pragmatic Studies on the History of Medical Discourse
The original studies in this volume provide new insights into the history of medical discourse across centuries in both professional and lay texts. The central themes deal with changes in medical writing in various societal and cultural contexts in search for best practices in corpus pragmatics for future work. Some studies apply quantitative methods of corpus linguistics and Digital Humanities, others adopt a qualitative, discourse-analytical perspective, focusing on particular texts, authors or medical topics, or specific functionally-defined discourse forms such as narratives. Quantitative and qualitative approaches are mutually complementary and shed light on different aspects of historical medical discourse. The methodologies aim at establishing validity and reliability for pragmatic analysis, taking into account relevant contextual factors and insights from other fields, such as medical and social history, history of ideas, and science studies.
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Myth and (mis)information
This collection draws together original scholarship from international contributors on a range of aspects of professional and semi-professional medical work and its relations to British culture. It combines a diverse spectrum of scholarly approaches, from medical history to book history, exploring literary and scientific texts, such as satiric poetry, essays, anatomies, advertisements, and the novel, to shed light on the mythologisation and transmission of medical (mis)information through literature and popular culture. It analyses the persuasive and sometimes deceptive means by which myths, as well as information and beliefs, about medicine and the medical professions proliferated in English literary culture of this period, from early eighteenth-century household remedies to the late nineteenth-century concerns with vaccination that are still relevant today.
Cronache di Croveo
In Valle Antigorio, si trova la frazione di Croveo, con le località di Beola, Osso, Esigo e Goglio. Le notizie raccolte dalla stampa ossolana partono dal 1896 e terminano nel 1980. Interessanti dal punto di vista storico e religioso sono alcuni articoli scritti da Don Amedeo Ruscetta, il prete viperaro, come quello della narrazione del suo viaggio in Terra Santa, pubblicato in diverse puntate sul Popolo dell'Ossola nel 1934 o quello pubblicato nel 1953 intitolato “Come si viveva 50 anni fa in Valle Antigorio, Formazza e paesi consimili” ed altri del suo successore Don Luciano Lilla. Molti fatti curiosi saranno stati raccontati in famiglia dai nonni o da parenti vari, altri sconosciuti o dimenticati a causa dei molti anni trascorsi. I giornali da cui sono tratti gli articoli, consultati presso la Biblioteca Comunale Gianfranco Contini e presso il Collegio Mellerio Rosmini di Domodossola, sono i seguenti: L'Ossola, L'Indipendente, La Libertà, Il Popolo dell'Ossola, L'Amico dell'Ossola, Il Toce, Il Commercio Ossolano, La Gazzetta del Lago Maggiore, Risveglio Ossolano, Eco Risveglio.
