Lindner B (2015)
Publication Language: English
Publication Type: Book chapter / Article in edited volumes
Publication year: 2015
Publisher: De Gruyter
Edited Volumes: The Pragmatics of Quoting Now and Then
Series: Topics in English Linguistics
City/Town: Berlin/New York
Book Volume: 89
Pages Range: 401-418
ISBN: ISBN 978-3-11-042756-1
As recent research shows, 29 % of quotations featured in modern surgical
publications are inaccurately quoted, and it is estimated that misquotation
in medical literature amounts to 17 % of all quotes (Regier 2010). This is remarkable
since quotation is one of the characteristic and often defining features of
scientific texts (Jakobs 1999, Gläser 1990). However, to the best of this author’s
knowledge, the historical development of quoting in medical contexts has not
been investigated at the time of writing, either in linguistics or in the philosophy
of language. This diachronic study describes some aspects of the development
of quotation forms and functions in Early Modern German scientific medical literature
and investigates to what extent modern expectations on quotation can
be applied to historical scientific medical literature. The focus is on medical case
studies which came into use towards the end of the 17th century. The results are
heterogeneous: different forms of quotation were used and the way in which they
were reproduced varied, but all in all most medical authors preferred reported
speech. It is only when physicians quoted colleagues that varying forms of quotation
were utilized, direct speech and reported speech. In general, quotation was
not as common in the 17th century as it was in the 18th century, nor was it an
obligatory feature of case reports. It may become evident through the discussion
of the data that quotation customs only begin to meet modern expectations by
the end of the first half of the 18th century, as standard conventions of scientific
presentation were not well established prior to this.
APA:
Lindner, B. (2015). Quotations from 17th and 18th Century Medical Case Reports. In v. Arendholz, Jenny / Bublitz, Wolfram / Kirner-Ludwig, Monika (Eds.), The Pragmatics of Quoting Now and Then. (pp. 401-418). Berlin/New York: De Gruyter.
MLA:
Lindner, Bettina. "Quotations from 17th and 18th Century Medical Case Reports." The Pragmatics of Quoting Now and Then. Ed. v. Arendholz, Jenny / Bublitz, Wolfram / Kirner-Ludwig, Monika, Berlin/New York: De Gruyter, 2015. 401-418.
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