The corpus comprises English texts aimed at disseminating and popularizing knowledge related to health and well-being from the Early Modern period to the present day (1500-2025) and is organized into six subcorpora, one for each century. It was compiled to trace the development of medical popularization, from early printed books addressed to a non-specialist readership to articles in contemporary popular science magazines, and to investigate the pragma-linguistic and discursive strategies employed by experts when addressing the wider public.
MedPop Corpus (1500-2025)
Gloria Mambelli;Roberta Facchinetti
2026-01-01
Abstract
The corpus comprises English texts aimed at disseminating and popularizing knowledge related to health and well-being from the Early Modern period to the present day (1500-2025) and is organized into six subcorpora, one for each century. It was compiled to trace the development of medical popularization, from early printed books addressed to a non-specialist readership to articles in contemporary popular science magazines, and to investigate the pragma-linguistic and discursive strategies employed by experts when addressing the wider public.
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