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Abstract
The results of a previous study (Banks 2018) suggest that the
development of scientific writing is more conservative in times of great turbulence. In an attempt to verify this, samples were
taken from the Mémoires de l’Académie des Sciences and the Philosophical Transactions for the
years 1735, 1785 and 1835. The development over the years 1735 to 1785 was compared to that between 1785 and 1835. Analysis of the
grammatical functions and semantic categories of themes and of process types indicates that there is some evidence in favour of
the conjecture that scientific writers are more conservative in times of turbulence. Whilst this is not conclusive, it suggests
that further research would be fruitful.
期刊介绍：
The Journal of Historical Pragmatics provides an interdisciplinary forum for theoretical, empirical and methodological work at the intersection of pragmatics and historical linguistics. The editorial focus is on socio-historical and pragmatic aspects of historical texts in their sociocultural context of communication (e.g. conversational principles, politeness strategies, or speech acts) and on diachronic pragmatics as seen in linguistic processes such as grammaticalization or discoursization. Contributions draw on data from literary or non-literary sources and from any language. In addition to contributions with a strictly pragmatic or discourse analytical perspective, it also includes contributions with a more sociolinguistic or semantic approach.
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