Prof. Dr. Theresa Maria Roth

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Institut für deutsche Sprache und Linguistik

Projects

B07 Evidentiality, Modality and Speaker’s Stance as Register Features in Galen’s Medical Discourse

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Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Dorotheenstraße 24, 10117 Berlin

Roth, Theresa; Schnelle, Gohar (2023) Evidential Strategies in Ancient vs. Early Modern Medical Discourse In: Kolloquium SFB1412 (2023) [ViVo]
In our talk we will discuss the development of evidential strategies used in historical medical discourse as a register relevant function. Our results show, that the use of evidentiality in Early Modern German medical texts is tightly bound to evidential strategies used in Ancient medical texts (i.e. Galen), but also shows variation as the scientific standards and thus registers used in contexts of scientific communication change over the centuries. Our analyses are carried out on the basis of a variationist corpus study based on annotation in the Register in diachronic German Science Corpus (Ridges-herbology) combined with a qualitative analysis of medical tractats by Galen (2nd-3rd century AD).