Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen
List of John Benjamins publications in which Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen is involved.
Journal
Book series
Discourses in Interaction
Edited by Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen, Marja-Liisa Helasvuo, Marjut Johansson and Mia Raitaniemi
The fourteen contributions in this collection come from different approaches in pragmatics, interactional linguistics, conversation analysis, discourse analysis and dialogue analysis; the name given to what is studied ranges from spoken language and conversation to interaction, dialogue, discourse… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 203] 2010. vii, 315 pp.
Instructional Writing in English: Studies in honour of Risto Hiltunen
Edited by Matti Peikola, Janne Skaffari and Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen
The history of English writing is, to a considerable extent, the history of instructional writing in English. This volume is the first collection of papers to focus on instructional writing throughout the history of the language. Spanning a millennium of English texts, the materials studied… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 189] 2009. xiii, 240 pp.
Letter Writing
Edited by Terttu Nevalainen and Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen
The contributions in this book discuss letter-writing from 1400 to 1800, and the material studied ranges from the late medieval Paston Letters and the correspondence between Sweden and the German Hanse to Early Modern English family letters and correspondence in natural history between England and… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 1] 2007. viii, 160 pp.
Collaborating towards Coherence: Lexical cohesion in English discourse
Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen
This book approaches cohesion and coherence from a perspective of interaction and collaboration. After a detailed account of various models of cohesion and coherence, the book suggests that it is fruitful to regard cohesion as contributing to coherence, as a strategy used by communicators to help… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 146] 2006. ix, 192 pp.
Letter Writing
Edited by Terttu Nevalainen and Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen
Special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 5:2 (2004) iv, 181 pp.
2025 Negotiating offensive humour online: ‘Only joking’ claims on Reddit ‘Only joking’: Negotiating offensive humour in interaction, Elder, Chi-Hé, Eleni Kapogianni and Ibi Baxter-Webb (eds.), pp. 151–177 | Article
This paper investigates the negotiation of offensive humour through ‘only joking’ claims made by participants on the social media platform Reddit. Metapragmatic claims of jocular intent can be added to a post containing offensive humour pre-emptively or after a reaction by another participant.… read more
2024 Chapter 4. “Ding ding ding we have a hypocrite!”: The metapragmatics of verbal hypocrisy in discussion forum interaction The Pragmatics of Hypocrisy, Sorlin, Sandrine and Tuija Virtanen (eds.), pp. 74–95 | Chapter
This study approaches verbal hypocrisy from a metapragmatic perspective, arguing that our understanding of hypocrisy as a pragmatic phenomenon benefits from an analysis of how language users negotiate hypocrisy in actual interaction. The goal is to uncover what kinds of statements participants… read more
2018 Identity and metapragmatic acts in a student forum discussion thread The Discursive Construction of Identities On- and Offline: Personal - group - collective, Bös, Birte, Sonja Kleinke, Sandra Mollin and Nuria Hernández (eds.), pp. 133–152 | Chapter
Starting with the idea that identity is dynamic, interactive and contextualised, the present study offers a close reading of a discussion thread from an online student discussion forum. During the discussion, the interactants both construct identity with language and use identity in order to… read more
2010 Discourse and the interactional turn Discourses in Interaction, Tanskanen, Sanna-Kaisa, Marja-Liisa Helasvuo, Marjut Johansson and Mia Raitaniemi (eds.), pp. 1–10 | Article
2009 "Proper to their sex": Letter-writing instruction and epistolary model dialogues in Henry Care's The Female Secretary Instructional Writing in English: Studies in honour of Risto Hiltunen, Peikola, Matti, Janne Skaffari and Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen (eds.), pp. 125–140 | Article
2009 Approaching instructional writing in English Instructional Writing in English: Studies in honour of Risto Hiltunen, Peikola, Matti, Janne Skaffari and Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen (eds.), pp. 1–11 | Article
2007 Intertextual networks in the correspondence of Lady Katherine Paston Letter Writing, Nevalainen, Terttu and Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen (eds.), pp. 73–87 | Article
In the dialogue of correspondence, letters both respond to previous letters and anticipate new ones. The intertextuality existing between letters in a chain of correspondence can be made explicit, and it is these manifest intertextual connections that are explored in this paper. More specifically,… read more
2007 Metapragmatic utterances in computer-mediated interaction Metapragmatics in Use, Bublitz, Wolfram and Axel Hübler (eds.), pp. 87–106 | Article
2004 Intertextual networks in the correspondence of Lady Katherine Paston Letter Writing, Nevalainen, Terttu and Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen (eds.), pp. 255–269 | Article
In the dialogue of correspondence, letters both respond to previous letters and anticipate new ones. The intertextuality existing between letters in a chain of correspondence can be made explicit, and it is these manifest intertextual connections that are explored in this paper. More specifically,… read more
2004 Dialogical coherence? Patterns of cohesion in face-to-face conversation and e-mail mailing list messages Discourse Patterns in Spoken and Written Corpora, Aijmer, Karin and Anna-Brita Stenström (eds.), pp. 89–110 | Article
2003 Introduction Discourse Perspectives on English: Medieval to modern, Hiltunen, Risto and Janne Skaffari (eds.), pp. 1–12 | Miscellaneous
2003 “Best patterns for your imitation”: Early modern letter-writing instruction and real correspondence Discourse Perspectives on English: Medieval to modern, Hiltunen, Risto and Janne Skaffari (eds.), pp. 167–195 | Article












