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Language, labour and ideology Constructing epistemologies of childbirth in the first three centuries of English-language midwifery texts (1540–1800) (2022)
Book Chapter
Whitt, R. J. (2022). Language, labour and ideology Constructing epistemologies of childbirth in the first three centuries of English-language midwifery texts (1540–1800). In T. Hiltunen, & I. Taavitsainen (Eds.), Corpus Pragmatic Studies on the History of Medical Discourse (179-202). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.330.08whi

Writings on midwifery and women’s medicine related to childbirth reflect the many changes affecting this field during the Early Modern period, which in turn reflect changes in epistemological values Through the lens of critical discourse analysis, th... Read More about Language, labour and ideology Constructing epistemologies of childbirth in the first three centuries of English-language midwifery texts (1540–1800).

Singular perception, multiple perspectives through we: constructing intersubjective meaning in English and German (2014)
Book Chapter
Whitt, R. J. (2014). Singular perception, multiple perspectives through we: constructing intersubjective meaning in English and German. In T. Pavlidou (Ed.), Constructing collectivity: 'we' across languages and contexts. John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.239

This paper presents the results of a corpus-based investigation of the role of the first-person plural pronoun in the construction of intersubjective meaning among evidential perception verbs in written and spoken English and German (mainly written).... Read More about Singular perception, multiple perspectives through we: constructing intersubjective meaning in English and German.