Medical Recipes as Text Type and Genre in Spanish (16th and 17th Centuries)
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| Format: | artículo original |
| Estat: | Versión publicada |
| Data de publicació: | 2020 |
| Descripció: | This article analyzes medical recipes as genre and text-type in order to gain more insight into the history of Spanish through the diversity of its texts and discourses. With this goal, we have selected 557 medical recipes from different works of medicine written in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and analyzed them according to the structural elements (ingredients, preparation, application, efficacy), the use of verbal forms and the incorporation of the recipes within the medical texts. The results show that precise and detailed information, as well as the use of infinitives and verbal periphrases, is related with medical works whose function lies in giving advice and recommendation, while vague information and the imperative mood is primarily used in remedy books and remedy sections, which are both destined for fast and immediate consultation. We conclude that the choices regarding discursive patterns is determined by whether the medical text is associated with the learned tradition or whether it is an extraacademic text. |
| Pais: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Institution: | Universidad de Costa Rica |
| Repositorio: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Idioma: | Español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/43485 |
| Accés en línia: | https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/filyling/article/view/43485 |
| Paraula clau: | medical recipes historical pragmatics discourse genre discourse traditions history of Spanish recetas médicas pragmática histórica género discursivo tradiciones discursivas historia del español |