Minna Korhonen

List of John Benjamins publications in which Minna Korhonen is involved.

Titles

Exploring Language and Society with Big Data: Parliamentary discourse across time and space

Edited by Minna Korhonen, Haidee Kotze and Jukka Tyrkkö

As the legislative bodies of democratic nations, parliaments play a fundamental role in society. Consequently the linguistic practices observed in parliamentary discourse are of importance to everyone. This volume brings together leading researchers in areas of corpus linguistics, big data,… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 111] 2023. vi, 379 pp.

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.

Articles

Kotze, Haidee, Minna Korhonen, Adam Smith and Bertus van Rooy 2023 Chapter 2. Salient differences between Australian oral parliamentary discourse and its official written records: A comparison of ‘close’ and ‘distant’ analysis methods Exploring Language and Society with Big Data: Parliamentary discourse across time and space, Korhonen, Minna, Haidee Kotze and Jukka Tyrkkö (eds.), pp. 54–88 | Chapter

This chapter addresses the question of editorial practice for the Australian Hansard with the use of an aligned corpus of transcribed audio recordings and the corresponding Hansard records, covering the period 1946–2015. A more traditional, qualitative, bottom-up approach is taken by manually… read more

Collins, Peter, Minna Korhonen, Haidee Kotze, Adam Smith and Xinyue Yao 2021 Diachronic register change: A corpus-based study of Australian English, with comparisons across British and American English Register Studies 3:1, pp. 33–87 | Article

A number of studies have found that grammatical differences across registers are more extensive than those across dialects. However, there is a paucity of research examining intervarietal register change, exploring how registers change differently over time in different regional varieties. The… read more

Penry Williams, Cara and Minna Korhonen 2020 A socio­linguistic perspective on the (quasi-)modals of obligation and necessity in Australian English English World-Wide 41:3, pp. 267–294 | Article

This article examines the distribution and socio­linguistic patterning of (quasi-)modals which express strong obligation/necessity, namely must, have to, have got to, got to and need to, in Australian English. Variationist studies in other varieties of English have had contrasting findings in… read more