Studj di filologia romanza;

Continued as Studj romanzi

Transactions.

List of members, v. 2.

Bericht über die verhandlungen der...tagung des Allgemeinen deutschen neuphilologen-verbandes ...

Mode of access: Internet.

Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie

Mode of access: Internet.

Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie.

Published: Tübingen, 1952-1964.

Romanische Bibliographie = Bibliographie romane = Romance bibliography.

Title in German, French and English, 1961/62-1963/64; in German only, 1965/66-

Romanische Bibliographie.

Vols. for 1961/62- issued in parts.

Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen.

Includes bibliographies.

Die Neueren Sprachen.

Vols. 1-5 include a separately paged section "Phonetische Studien. Beiblatt."

Neuphilologische Mitteilungen.

Includes sections "Besprechungen," "Schriftenaustausch" and other bibliographical material.

Studi glottologici italiani

Mode of access: Internet.

Studj romanzi,

Prededed by Studj di filologia romanza.

Modern philology : its discoveries, history, and influence with maps, tabular views, and an index /

Mode of access: Internet.

Texts "Con and Pro" : The Early Modern Medical Controversy over Tobacco

The habit of "drinking smoke" , meaning tobacco smoking, caused a true controversy in early modern England. The new substance was used both for its alleged therapeutic properties as well as its narcotic effects. The dispute over tobacco continues the line of written controversies which were an important means of communication in the sixteenth and seventeenth century Europe. The tobacco controversy is special among medical controversies because the recreational use of tobacco soon spread and outweighed its medicinal use, ultimately causing a social and cultural crisis in England. This study examines how language is used in polemic discourse and argumentation. The material consists of medical texts arguing for and against tobacco in early modern England. The texts were compiled into an electronic corpus of tobacco texts (1577 1670) representing different genres and styles of writing. With the help of the corpus, the tobacco controversy is described and analyzed in the context of early modern medicine. A variety of methods suitable for the study of conflict discourse were used to assess internal and external text variation. The linguistic features examined include personal pronouns, intertextuality, structural components, and statistically derived keywords. A common thread in the work is persuasive language use manifested, for example, in the form of emotive adjectives and the generic use of pronouns; the latter is especially pronounced in the dichotomy between us and them. Controversies have not been studied in this manner before but the methods applied have supplemented each other and proven their suitability in the study of conflictive discourse. These methods can also be applied to present-day materials.