Referring to Others in the Scientific Journal Article. A brief history
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https://doi.org/10.1558/lhs.v2i3.329Keywords:
Ancients and Moderns, Praise and Criticism, Provenance, Reference, Scientific Community, Scientific Journal ArticleAbstract
Study of a corpus of 30 articles taken from the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, and covering the period 1700-1980, shows that their writing contains features which betray the relationships that prevailed within the scientific community of their time. Some features, such as mention of the Ancients, die out quickly, while others, like giving the provenance of specimens, continue throughout the period. Praising others is common in the early articles but disappears as time goes on. There is some evidence of the epistolary form from which the scientific article developed. Critical remarks, particularly in the early years are accompanied by attempts to explain the supposed error. There is also evidence of the way the gentleman scientist, or virtuoso, gradually gives way to the professional.
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Hall, A. R. (1951) Two unpublished lectures of Robert Hooke. Isis 42: 219–230.
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Jardine, L. (2003) The Curious Life of Robert Hooke: the man who measured London. London: Harper Perennial.
Jones, R. F. [1961] (1982) Ancients and Moderns: a study of the rise of the scientific movement in seventeenth-century England. (Second edition.) New York: Dover.
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Lyons, H. (1944) The Royal Society, 1660–1940, A History of its Administration under its Charters. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Myers, G. (1990) Writing Biology. Texts in the Social Construction of Scientific Knowledge. Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press.
O’Brian, P. (1988) Joseph Banks: a life. London: Collins Harvill.
Perrin, J. (1950) Œuvres scientifiques de Jean Perrin. Paris: CNRS.
Salager-Meyer, F. (1998a) The rationale behind academic conflict: from outright criticism to conventional «niche» creation. Unesco ALSED-LSP Newsletter 21(2): 4–22.
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Salager-Meyer, F. (2001c) The bittersweet rhetoric of controversiality in nineteenthand twentieth-century French and English medical literature. Journal of Historical Pragmatics 2(1): 141–173.
Salager-Meyer, F., Alcaraz Ariza, M. F. and Zambrano, N. (2003) The scimitar, the dagger and the glove: intercultural differences in the rhetoric of criticism in Spanish, French and English medical discourse (1930–1995). English for Specific Purposes 22(3): 223–248.
Swales, J. (1990) Genre Analysis. English in Academic and Research Settings. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Swales, J. (2004) Research Genres. Exploration and Applications. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Tiew, W. S. and Sen, B. K. (2002) Acknowledgment patterns in research articles: a bibliometric study based on Journal of Natural Rubber Research 1986–1997. Malaysian Journal of Library & Information Science 7(1): 43–56.
Valle, E. (1999) A Collective Intelligence: the life sciences in the Royal Society as a scientific discourse community, 1665–1965. Turku: Anglicana Turkuensia.
Ventola, E. (1998a) Meaningful choices in academic communities, ideological issues. In R. Schulze (ed.) Making Meaningful Choices in English. On Dimensions, Perspectives, Methodology and Evidence 277–294. Tübingen: Gunter Narr.
Ventola, E. (1998b) Interpersonal choices in academic work. In A. Sánchez-Macarro and R. Carter (eds) Linguistic Choice across Genres. Variation in Spoken and Written English 117–136. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
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Banks, D. (2008). Referring to Others in the Scientific Journal Article. A brief history. Linguistics and the Human Sciences, 2(3), 329-353. https://doi.org/10.1558/lhs.v2i3.329
