Maura Ratia

List of John Benjamins publications in which Maura Ratia is involved.

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Diachronic Developments in English News Discourse

Edited by Minna Palander-Collin, Maura Ratia and Irma Taavitsainen

The history of English news discourse is characterised by intriguing multilevel developments, and the present cannot be separated from them. For example, audience engagement is by no means an invention of the digital age. This collection highlights major topics that range from newspaper genres like… read more

[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 6] 2017. vii, 301 pp.

Ratia, Maura 2020 Finding evidence for a changing society: A collocational study of medical discourse in 1500–1800 Corpora and the Changing Society: Studies in the evolution of English, Rautionaho, Paula, Arja Nurmi and Juhani Klemola (eds.), pp. 57–78 | Chapter

This chapter examines, with the help of collocation analysis, how patients were viewed in medical texts from 1500 to 1800. Previous studies have suggested that this period witnessed considerable changes in society. The field of medicine also underwent major developments during this time, but… read more

Ratia, Maura 2019 11.2a. Diseases Late Modern English Medical Texts: Writing medicine in the eighteenth century, Taavitsainen, Irma and Turo Hiltunen (eds.), pp. 243–249 | Miscellaneous

Ratia, Maura, Minna Palander-Collin and Irma Taavitsainen 2017 Chapter 1. English news discourse from newsbooks to new media Diachronic Developments in English News Discourse, Palander-Collin, Minna, Maura Ratia and Irma Taavitsainen (eds.), pp. 3–12 | Chapter

This chapter discusses the long diachrony of English news discourse from seventeenth-century newsbooks to the twentieth century and the dawn of multimedia. We shall place news discourse in its context of sociocultural developments considering what might be diachronically constant and what prone to… read more

Lehto, Anu, Alistair Baron, Maura Ratia and Paul Rayson 2010 Improving the precision of corpus methods: The standardized version of Early Modern English Medical Texts Early Modern English Medical Texts: Corpus description and studies, Taavitsainen, Irma and Päivi Pahta (eds.), pp. 279–290 | 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

Ratia, Maura 2005 Personal pronouns in argumentation: An early tobacco controversy Opening Windows on Texts and Discourses of the Past, Skaffari, Janne, Matti Peikola, Ruth Carroll, Risto Hiltunen and Brita Wårvik (eds.), pp. 123–141 | Article

This article examines the use of personal pronouns in argumentation in two medical texts about the health effects of tobacco. The pamphlets were written in 1601 and 1602; the latter was written as a reply to the first. My method is qualitative, combining elements from different theories and it is… read more