Corpus-Pragmatic Studies of Democratization in Public Discourses: New perspectives, methods and materials
Edited by Turo Hiltunen, Turo Vartiainen and Jenni Räikkönen
Special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 25:2 (2024) vi, 177 pp.
Turo Hiltunen
List of John Benjamins publications in which Turo Hiltunen is involved.
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Corpus Pragmatic Studies on the History of Medical Discourse
Edited by Turo Hiltunen and Irma Taavitsainen
The original studies in this volume provide new insights into the history of medical discourse across centuries in both professional and lay texts. The central themes deal with changes in medical writing in various societal and cultural contexts in search for best practices in corpus pragmatics for… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 330] 2022. vii, 322 pp.
Late Modern English Medical Texts: Writing medicine in the eighteenth century. Including the LMEMT Corpus
Edited by Irma Taavitsainen and Turo Hiltunen
The eighteenth century in medicine is a fallow period lying between the innovations of the Royal Society (1662–) with its new ways of doing science and the nineteenth-century achievements of clinical and laboratory medicine. The period deserves more attention, as the seeds of some modern… read more[Not in series, 221] 2019. xix, 432 pp., incl. CD-RoM
2026 Chapter 9. “I’m not a scientist but I did study physics”: Exploring grammatical patterns of expertise on Reddit Register and Discourse through the Lens of Corpus Linguistics, Yáñez-Bouza, Nuria, Dolores González-Álvarez and Esperanza Rama-Martínez (eds.), pp. 241–265 | Chapter
This chapter examines how references to expert knowledge are used as rhetorical resources in public online discourse, focusing on Reddit discussions related to science and technology. In light of a broader crisis of expertise, where traditional scientific authority is increasingly contested in… read more
2024 Early newspapers as data for corpus linguistics (and Digital Humanities): Issues in using the British Library Newspapers database as a corpus Challenges in Corpus Linguistics: Rethinking corpus compilation and analysis, Kaunisto, Mark and Marco Schilk (eds.), pp. 68–88 | Chapter
The availability of large digital archives has great potential for corpus linguistic research, but their use is not without problems. These problems can often be traced to fundamentally different ideas of what might constitute “good data” in Digital Humanities and in corpus linguistics, leading… read more
2024 A corpus-pragmatic analysis of linguistic democratisation in the British Hansard: Comparing the two Houses Corpus-Pragmatic Studies of Democratization in Public Discourses: New perspectives, methods and materials, Hiltunen, Turo, Turo Vartiainen and Jenni Räikkönen (eds.), pp. 245–273 | Article
In this article, we investigate changes in British parliamentary discourse by using the Hansard Corpus (1803–2005). Our first goal is to determine whether parliamentary speeches have become colloquialised by studying frequency changes of select features associated with informal spoken language.… read more
2024 Democratisation: How can historical corpus pragmatics contribute to understanding changes in the recent history of English? Corpus-Pragmatic Studies of Democratization in Public Discourses: New perspectives, methods and materials, Hiltunen, Turo, Turo Vartiainen and Jenni Räikkönen (eds.), pp. 177–192 | Introduction
2023 Chapter 8. “The job requires considerable expertise”: Tracking experts and expert knowledge in the British parliamentary record (1800–2005) Exploring Language and Society with Big Data: Parliamentary discourse across time and space, Korhonen, Minna, Haidee Kotze and Jukka Tyrkkö (eds.), pp. 227–249 | Chapter
While clearly important in decision-making in democratic societies, the authority of science and expertise in public forums is nowadays increasingly challenged by different advocacy groups and crowd-based politics. Using the Hansard Corpus, this chapter explores how experts and expert knowledge… read more
2022 Chapter 6. Towards a local grammar of stance expression in Late Modern English medical writing Corpus Pragmatic Studies on the History of Medical Discourse, Hiltunen, Turo and Irma Taavitsainen (eds.), pp. 127–152 | Chapter
This chapter investigates the expression of stance in eighteenth-century medical English, based on data from the LMEMT corpus. The focus is on three types of stance that-clauses, and the aim of the analysis is to document the frequency trends and patterns of variation in the data, compare them… read more
2022 Chapter 1. Corpora, pragmatics, and historical medical discourse Corpus Pragmatic Studies on the History of Medical Discourse, Hiltunen, Turo and Irma Taavitsainen (eds.), pp. 1–20 | Chapter
2021 Chapter 12. Exploring sub-register variation in Victorian newspapers: Evidence from the British Library Newspapers database Corpus-based Approaches to Register Variation, Seoane, Elena and Douglas Biber (eds.), pp. 313–338 | Chapter
This chapter explores sub-register variation in newspaper writing in the 19th century using two corpora extracted from the British Library Newspapers database, the most comprehensive collection of national and regional newspapers from the Victorian period. As an ‘agile’ (Hundt & Mair 1999)… read more
2019 11.7. Scientific periodicals: The Philosophical Transactions and the Edinburgh Medical Journal Late Modern English Medical Texts: Writing medicine in the eighteenth century, Taavitsainen, Irma and Turo Hiltunen (eds.), pp. 317–320 | Miscellaneous
2019 Chapter 1. Towards new knowledge: The corpus of Late Modern English Medical Texts Late Modern English Medical Texts: Writing medicine in the eighteenth century, Taavitsainen, Irma and Turo Hiltunen (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Chapter
Late Modern English Medical Texts (LMEMT) is a new corpus representing printed medical writing in the eighteenth century. This chapter describes the structure and the main compilation principles of the corpus. Representativeness is a complex notion in corpus linguistics in general,… read more
2019 Chapter 12. Manual to the LMEMT corpus Late Modern English Medical Texts: Writing medicine in the eighteenth century, Taavitsainen, Irma and Turo Hiltunen (eds.), pp. 337–358 | Chapter
2019 Chapter 2. Sociohistorical and cultural context of Late Modern English Medical Texts Late Modern English Medical Texts: Writing medicine in the eighteenth century, Taavitsainen, Irma and Turo Hiltunen (eds.), pp. 17–30 | Chapter
The eighteenth century presents as a transition period towards more modern practices in medical history. In this chapter we probe into these developments as reflected in medical writing and provide a sociohistorical overview of the background for the corpus. When compared to the earlier phases of… read more
2018 Chapter 8. Lexical bundles in Wikipedia articles and related texts: Exploring disciplinary variation Applications of Pattern-driven Methods in Corpus Linguistics, Kopaczyk, Joanna and Jukka Tyrkkö (eds.), pp. 189–212 | Chapter
Wikipedia is widely used by academics and students in higher education, but research on the linguistic characteristics of this genre is scarce (Kuteeva 2016). This paper explores the usefulness of lexical bundles as an analytical tool to describe disciplinary variation within Wikipedia articles,… read more
2012 So ADJ/ADV that clause patterns in Early Modern English medical writing Journal of Historical Pragmatics 13:2, pp. 313–335 | Article
This paper investigates how an intensifying phraseological pattern involving the adverb so followed by a delayed declarative content clause is used in medical English in the early modern period (1500–1700). So may occur with adjectival, nominal or adverbial heads, and the pattern is used for… read more
2012 Now as a text deictic feature in Late Medieval and Early Modern English medical writing Investigations into the Meta-Communicative Lexicon of English: A contribution to historical pragmatics, Busse, Ulrich and Axel Hübler (eds.), pp. 179–206 | Article
2010 Category 6: Philosophical Transactions Early Modern English Medical Texts: Corpus description and studies, Taavitsainen, Irma and Päivi Pahta (eds.), pp. 127–132 | Article