Cover not available

Introduction published In: Corpus-Pragmatic Studies of Democratization in Public Discourses: New perspectives, methods and materials
Edited by Turo Hiltunen, Turo Vartiainen and Jenni Räikkönen
[Journal of Historical Pragmatics 25:2] 2024
► pp. 177–192

Get fulltext from our e-platform
JBE logo with link
PDF logo with download linkDownload PDF
EPUB logo with download linkDownload EPUB
authorization required
Introduction

Democratisation

How can historical corpus pragmatics contribute to understanding changes in the recent history of English?

ORCiD logo with link | University of Helsinki
ORCiD logo with link | University of Helsinki
 | Tampere University
Published online: 9 August 2024
DOI logo with link
https://doi.org/10.1075/jhp.00072.hil
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Meanings of democratisation
  • 3.Towards a corpus-pragmatic perspective on democratization
  • 4.Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
References (45)
References
Biber, Douglas, and Edward Finegan. 1989. “Drift and the Evolution of English Style: A History of Three Genres.” Language 65 (3): 487–517. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Biber, Douglas, and Bethany Gray. 2012. “The Competing Demands of Popularization vs. Economy. Written Language in the Age of Mass Literacy.” In The Oxford Handbook of the History of English, ed. by Terttu Nevalainen, and Elizabeth C. Traugott, 314–328. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. 2013. “Being Specific about Historical Change: The Influence of Sub-register.” Journal of English Linguistics 41 (2): 104–134. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Biber, Douglas, Jack Grieve, and Gina Iberri-Shea. 2009. “Noun Phrase Modification”. In One Language, Two Grammars, ed. by Günter Rohdenburg, and Julia Schlüter, 182–193. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Bucholtz, Mary, and Kira Hall. 2010. “Locating Identity in Language.” In Language and Identities, ed. by Carmen Llamas, and Dominic Watt, 18–28. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Coppedge, Michael. 2012. Democratization and Research Methods. New York: Cambridge University Press. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Creese, Angela, and Adrian Blackledge (eds). 2018. The Routledge Handbook of Language and Superdiversity: An Interdisciplinary Perspective. 1st ed. London: Routledge. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Culpeper, Jonathan, and Minna Nevala. 2012. “Sociocultural Processes and the History of English.” In The Oxford Handbook of the History of English, ed. by Terttu Nevalainen, and Elizabeth C. Traugott, 365–391. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Davies, Mark. 2008–. The Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA): 560 million words, 1990–present. [URL]
De Cillia, Rudolf, Martin Reisigl, and Ruth Wodak. 1999. “The Discursive Construction of National Identities.” Discourse & Society 10 (2): 149–173. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Fairclough, Norman. 1992. Discourse and Social Change. Cambridge: Polity Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. 1995. “Technologisation of Discourse.” In Texts and Practices: Readings in Critical Discourse Analysis, ed. by Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard, and Malcolm Coulthard. London: Routledge.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Fairclough, Norman, and Anna Mauranen. 1997. “The Conversationalisation of Political Discourse: A Comparative View.” Belgian Journal of Linguistics 11 (1): 89–119. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Fanego, Teresa, and Paula Rodríguez-Puente (eds). 2019. Corpus-Based Research on Variation in English Legal Discourse. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Farrelly, Michael, and Elena Seoane. 2012. “Democratisation.” In The Oxford Handbook of the History of English, ed. by Terttu Nevalainen, and Elizabeth C. Traugott, 392–401. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Gonçalves, Bruno, Lucía Loureiro-Porto, José J. Ramasco, and David Sánchez. 2018. “Mapping the Americanization of English in Space and Time.” PLOS ONE 13 (5). Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Greenfield, Patricia M. 2013. “The Changing Psychology of Culture from 1800 through 2000.” Psychological Science 24 (9): 1722–1731. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Grugel, Jean. 2001. Democratisation: A Critical Introduction. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Heller, Monica. 2010. “The Commodification of Language.” Annual Review of Anthropology 391: 101–114. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Hilpert, Martin. 2020. “The Great Temptation. What Diachronic Corpora Do and Do Not Reveal about Social Change.” In Corpora and the Changing Society. Studies in the Evolution of English, ed. by Paula Rautionaho, Arja Nurmi, and Juhani Klemola, 3–27. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Hiltunen, Turo. 2021. “Exploring Sub-register Variation in Victorian Newspapers: Evidence from the British Library Newspapers Database.” In Corpus-based Approaches to Register Variation, ed. by Elena Seoane, and Douglas Biber, 313–338. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Hiltunen, Turo, and Lucía Loureiro-Porto. 2020. “Democratisation of Englishes: Synchronic and Diachronic Approaches.” Language Sciences 791. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Hiltunen, Turo, Jenni Räikkönen, and Jukka Tyrkkö. 2020. “Investigating Colloquialization in the British Parliamentary Record in the Late 19th and Early 20th Century.” Language Sciences 791. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Hiltunen, Turo, and Irma Taavitsainen (eds.) 2022. Corpus pragmatic studies on the history of medical discourse. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Holly, Werner. 2008. “Tabloidisation of Political Communication in the Public Sphere.” In Handbook of Communication in the Public Sphere, ed. by Ruth Wodak, and Veronika Koller, 317–342. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Hundt, Marianne, and Christian Mair. 1999. “‘Agile’ and ‘Uptight’ Genres: The Corpus-Based Approach to Language Change in Progress.” International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 4 (2): 221–241. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Huntington, Samuel P. 1991. The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Landert, Daniela, Daria Dayter, Thomas C. Messerli, and Miriam A. Locher. 2023. Corpus Pragmatics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Leech, Geoffrey, Marianne Hundt, Christian Mair, and Nicholas Smith. 2009. Change in Contemporary English: A Grammatical Study. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Loureiro-Porto, Lucía, and Turo Hiltunen. 2020. “Democratisation and Gender-neutrality in English(es).” Journal of English Linguistics 48 (3): 215–232. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Mair, Christian. 2006. Twentieth-Century English: History, Variation and Standardization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Mair, Christian, and Geoffrey Leech. 2006. “Current change in English syntax.” In The Handbook of English Linguistics, ed. by Bas Aarts, and April McMahon, 318–342. Oxford: Blackwell. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Myhill, John. 1995. “Change and Continuity in the Functions of the American English modals.” Linguistics 33 (2): 157–211. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Pons Bordería, Salvador. 2014. “El siglo xx como diacronía: intuición y comprobación en el caso de o sea [The 20th century as a diachrony: Intuition and case of o sea].” Rilce. Revista de Filología Hispánica 30 (3): 985–1016. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Romero-Trillo, Jesús. 2017. “Corpus Pragmatics.” Corpus Pragmatics 1 (1): 1–2. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Rühlemann, Christoph, and Karin Aijmer. 2015. “Corpus Pragmatics: Laying the Foundations.” In Corpus Pragmatics: A Handbook, ed. by Karin Aijmer, and Christoph Rühlemann, 1–26. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Rühlemann, Christoph, and Martin Hilpert. 2017. “Colloquialization in Journalistic Writing: The Case of Inserts with a Focus on Well.” Journal of Historical Pragmatics 18 (1): 104–135. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Schützler, Ole. 2020. “Frequency Changes and Stylistic Levelling of Though in Diachronic and Synchronic Varieties of English – Linguistic Democratisation?” Language Sciences 791. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Skärlund, Sanna. 2018. “Den intima ledaren? Om ledarartiklar, informalisering och språklig förändring [The intimate editorial? On editorial articles, informalisation, and linguistic change].” Språk & Stil 281: 78–111. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Smitterberg, Erik. 2021. Syntactic Change in Late Modern English: Studies on Colloquialization and Densification. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Taavitsainen, Irma, Andreas H. Jucker, and Jukka Tuominen (eds). 2014. Diachronic Corpus Pragmatics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
van Leeuwen, Theo. 2008. Discourse and Practice: New Tools for Critical Discourse Analysis. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Verschueren, Jef. 2013. “Continental European Perspective View.” In The Oxford Handbook of Pragmatics, ed. by Yan Huang. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Wray, Alison, and Michael R. Perkins. 2000. “The functions of formulaic language: An integrated model.” Language & Communication 20 (1): 1–28. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Mobile Menu Logo with link to supplementary files background Layer 1 prag Twitter_Logo_Blue