“And all this is spoken of the naturall byrth . . .”: Metadiscourse in The Birth of Mankind and its German source text, Rosengarten

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“And all this is spoken of the naturall byrth . . .”: Metadiscourse in The Birth of Mankind and its German source text, Rosengarten

This paper provides an examination of the use of metadiscourse in the two versions of The Birth of Mankind, the first midwifery manual to be printed in English during the sixteenth century. It is a translation of a Latin text, which itself is a translation of the German Rosengarten. While much has b...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Whitt, Richard J.
Format:	Article
Language:	English English
Published:	John Benjamins Publishing 2018
Subjects:	metadiscourse midwifery translation The Birth of Mankind
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/50606/

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