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EnglishThe Medical-Officer-of-Health (MOH) report emerged from the need to articulate for government officials matters related to poor sanitary conditions in industrialised 19th-century Britain. If-conditionals were used in this genre of case reporting to gain wider acceptance of MOH claims. The twofold aim of this research is to investigate the macro-functions of if-conditionals and their sociohistorical meanings, and to analyse how participants in MOH discourse are represented through if-constructs. A historical discourse analysis of the semantic functionality of if-conditionals was conducted on a diachronic corpus of MOH reports (mid-nineteenth century – early twentieth century) which detail the spread of smallpox infection. The analysis accounts for the contextsensitive functionalities of if on the semantic level supported by corpus-assisted discourse analysis. Results highlight the semantic shift in the macro-functional use of if across the two subcorpora based on form-to-function mapping, and further underline how the if-operator conveys dynamic representational meaning in the diachronic evolution of MOH discourse.
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| Titolo: | Case reporting: a historical discourse analysis of the functional uses of if-conditionals in medical-officer-of-health reports |
| Autori: | PLASTINA, Anna Franca (Corresponding) |
| Data di pubblicazione: | 2019 |
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| Handle: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11770/297667 |
| Appare nelle tipologie: | 1.1 Articolo in rivista |
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