Risto Hiltunen

List of John Benjamins publications in which Risto Hiltunen is involved.

Titles

Opening Windows on Texts and Discourses of the Past

Edited by Janne Skaffari, Matti Peikola, Ruth Carroll, Risto Hiltunen and Brita Wårvik

This volume presents a variety of pragmatic and discourse analytical approaches to a wide range of linguistic data and historical texts, including data from English, French, Irish, Latin, and Spanish. This diversity of research questions and methods is a feature of the field of historical… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 134] 2005. x, 418 pp.

Discourse Perspectives on English: Medieval to modern

Edited by Risto Hiltunen and Janne Skaffari

Covering nearly one thousand years, this volume explores medieval and modern English texts from fresh perspectives. Within the relatively new field of historical discourse linguistics, the synchronic analysis of large textual units and consideration of text-external features in relation to… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 119] 2003. viii, 243 pp.

Hiltunen, Risto 2010 Discourse and context in a historical perspective: On courtroom interaction in Salem, 1692 Discourses in Interaction, Tanskanen, Sanna-Kaisa, Marja-Liisa Helasvuo, Marjut Johansson and Mia Raitaniemi (eds.), pp. 61–78 | Article

The article stresses the importance for historical discourse linguistics of contextualising texts, using the Salem witchcraft documents of 1692 as an example. A contextual analysis presupposes taking into account a number of variables with a potential impact on the discourse. Here I discuss the… read more

Hiltunen, Risto and Matti Peikola 2007 Trial discourse and manuscript context: Scribal profiles in the Salem witchcraft records Journal of Historical Pragmatics 8:1, pp. 43–68 | Article

The present paper underscores the importance of examining the original manuscripts and their context(s) of production, with specific reference to the wealth of documentary material produced in connection with the Salem witchcraft outbreak of 1692. The background to this study is an international… read more

Carroll, Ruth, Risto Hiltunen, Matti Peikola, Janne Skaffari, Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen, Ellen Valle and Brita Wårvik 2003 Introduction Discourse Perspectives on English: Medieval to modern, Hiltunen, Risto and Janne Skaffari (eds.), pp. 1–12 | Miscellaneous

Hiltunen, Risto 2003 Telling the anchorite code: Ancrene Wisse on language Discourse Perspectives on English: Medieval to modern, Hiltunen, Risto and Janne Skaffari (eds.), pp. 57–76 | Article

Doty, Kathleen L. and Risto Hiltunen 2002 “I will tell, I will tell”: Confessional patterns in the Salem Witchcraft Trials, 1692 Journal of Historical Pragmatics 3:2, pp. 299–335 | Article

This study focuses on the records of confessions by individuals accused of witchcraft in Salem in 1692, both those presented in direct discourse and in reported discourse. We analyze the material from two viewpoints: the pragmatic features of the discourse and narrative structure and function. The… read more

Hiltunen, Risto 1999 Chapter 5: Verbal Phrases and Phrasal Verbs in Early Modern English Collocational and Idiomatic Aspects of Composite Predicates in the History of English, Brinton, Laurel J. and Minoji Akimoto (eds.), pp. 133–166 | Chapter