Päivi Pahta

List of John Benjamins publications in which Päivi Pahta is involved.

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Social Roles and Language Practices in Late Modern English

Edited by Päivi Pahta, Minna Nevala, Arja Nurmi and Minna Palander-Collin

This volume presents a ground-breaking overview of the interconnections between socio-cultural reality and language practices, by looking at the different ways in which social roles are performed, maintained, adopted and assigned through linguistic means. The introductory chapter discusses and… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 195] 2010. viii, 241 pp.

Early Modern English Medical Texts: Corpus description and studies

Edited by Irma Taavitsainen and Päivi Pahta

The corpus Early Modern English Medical Texts (EMEMT) is the second component of the Corpus of Early English Medical Writing (CEEM), a three-part series of historical corpora of medical writing from 1375-1800. EMEMT contains a two-million word representative sample of the entire field of English… read more

[Not in series, 160] 2010. xv, 370 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)

The Dynamics of Linguistic Variation: Corpus evidence on English past and present

Edited by Terttu Nevalainen, Irma Taavitsainen, Päivi Pahta and Minna Korhonen

Variability is characteristic of any living language. This volume approaches the ‘life cycle’ of linguistic variability in English using data sources that range from electronic corpora to the internet. In the spirit of the 1968 Weinreich, Labov and Herzog classic, the fifteen contributions divide… read more

[Studies in Language Variation, 2] 2008. viii, 339 pp.

Middle English Medical Texts

Compiled by Irma Taavitsainen, Päivi Pahta and Martti Mäkinen

Middle English Medical Texts (MEMT) is an electronic corpus including 86 texts and 495,322 words from three traditions of medical writing (surgical treatises, specialized texts, and remedy books) from 1375 to 1500, and an appendix of recipes from c. 1330. MEMT provides a new research resource for… read more

[Not in series, 131] 2005. CD-ROM

Writing in Nonstandard English

Edited by Irma Taavitsainen, Gunnel Melchers and Päivi Pahta

This book investigates linguistic variation as a complex continuum of language use from standard to nonstandard. In our view, these notions can only be established through mutual definition, and they cannot exist without the opposite pole. What is considered standard English changes according to… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 67] 2000. viii, 403 pp.

Articles (11) | Order by:

Pahta, Päivi 2019 11.2d. Midwifery Late Modern English Medical Texts: Writing medicine in the eighteenth century, Taavitsainen, Irma and Turo Hiltunen (eds.), pp. 271–278 | Miscellaneous

Lehto, Anu, Raisa Oinonen and Päivi Pahta 2010 Explorations through Early Modern English Medical Texts: Charting changes in medical discourse and scientific thinking Early Modern English Medical Texts: Corpus description and studies, Taavitsainen, Irma and Päivi Pahta (eds.), pp. 151–166 | Article

Méndez-Naya, Belén and Päivi Pahta 2010 Intensifiers in competition: The picture from early English medical writing Early Modern English Medical Texts: Corpus description and studies, Taavitsainen, Irma and Päivi Pahta (eds.), pp. 191–214 | Article

Nurmi, Arja and Päivi Pahta 2010 Preacher, scholar, brother, friend: Social roles and code-switching in the writings of Thomas Twining Social Roles and Language Practices in Late Modern English, Pahta, Päivi, Minna Nevala, Arja Nurmi and Minna Palander-Collin (eds.), pp. 135–162 | Article

no human being talks the same way all the time (Hymes 1984: 44) The article examines variation in the use of multilingual resources in the verbal repertoire of one individual in different social roles involving various contexts of discourse in eighteenth-century England. We discuss the language… read more

Pahta, Päivi 2010 Gaining new knowledge through Early Modern English Medical Texts Early Modern English Medical Texts: Corpus description and studies, Taavitsainen, Irma and Päivi Pahta (eds.), pp. 149–150 | Article

Pahta, Päivi and Irma Taavitsainen 2010 Introducing Early Modern English Medical Texts Early Modern English Medical Texts: Corpus description and studies, Taavitsainen, Irma and Päivi Pahta (eds.), pp. 1–8 | Article

Pahta, Päivi and Maura Ratia 2010 Category 2: Treatises on specific topics Early Modern English Medical Texts: Corpus description and studies, Taavitsainen, Irma and Päivi Pahta (eds.), pp. 73–100 | Article

Pahta, Päivi, Minna Palander-Collin, Minna Nevala and Arja Nurmi 2010 Language practices in the construction of social roles in Late Modern English Social Roles and Language Practices in Late Modern English, Pahta, Päivi, Minna Nevala, Arja Nurmi and Minna Palander-Collin (eds.), pp. 1–27 | Article

Pahta, Päivi and Arja Nurmi 2009 Negotiating interpersonal identities in writing: Code-switching practices in Charles Burney's correspondence The Language of Daily Life in England (1400–1800), Nurmi, Arja, Minna Nevala and Minna Palander-Collin (eds.), pp. 27–52 | Article

This study examines code-switching in eighteenth-century interpersonal communication, focusing on the correspondence of musician and music historian Charles Burney. The paper builds on our previous work on code-switching in the history of English texts, and draws on insights gained in research in… read more

Nevalainen, Terttu, Irma Taavitsainen and Päivi Pahta 2008 Exploring the dynamics of linguistic variation through public and private corpora The Dynamics of Linguistic Variation: Corpus evidence on English past and present, Nevalainen, Terttu, Irma Taavitsainen, Päivi Pahta and Minna Korhonen (eds.), pp. 1–9 | Article

Pahta, Päivi and Saara Nevanlinna 2001 On Markers of Expository Apposition NOWELE Volume 39 (September 2001), pp. 3–51 | Article