Corpora and the Changing Society: Studies in the evolution of English
Edited by Paula Rautionaho, Arja Nurmi and Juhani Klemola
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 96] 2020. xii, 305 pp.
Arja Nurmi
List of John Benjamins publications for which Arja Nurmi plays a role.
Subjects Corpus linguistics | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Exploring Future Paths for Historical Sociolinguistics
Edited by Tanja Säily, Arja Nurmi, Minna Palander-Collin and Anita Auer
[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 7] 2017. vii, 331 pp.
Subjects Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Social Roles and Language Practices in Late Modern English
Edited by Päivi Pahta, Minna Nevala, Arja Nurmi and Minna Palander-Collin
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 195] 2010. viii, 241 pp.
Subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
The Language of Daily Life in England (1400–1800)
Edited by Arja Nurmi, Minna Nevala and Minna Palander-Collin
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 183] 2009. vii, 312 pp.
Subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
2020 Being Wilde: Social representation of the public image of Oscar Wilde Late Modern English: Novel encounters, Kytö, Merja and Erik Smitterberg (eds.), pp. 315–331 | Chapter
This article focuses on the news reporting on Oscar Wilde during the 1895 trials in which he was accused of sodomy and gross indecency. We discuss the positive and negative labelling associated with Wilde during and after the trials. Our data are drawn from the British Library Newspapers,… read more
2020 The multilingual practices of Laurence Sterne: Evidence of translanguaging? Literacies in Contact, Böhm, Manuela and Constanze Weth (eds.), pp. 232–250 | Article
This article discusses the multilingual practices identified in the public and private writings of Laurence Sterne, novelist and clergyman. The data used consists of Sterne’s two novels as well as a selection of his personal correspondence. Sterne uses a wide variety of languages in his texts,… read more
2020 Introduction: Corpora and the changing society Corpora and the Changing Society: Studies in the evolution of English, Rautionaho, Paula, Arja Nurmi and Juhani Klemola (eds.), pp. ix–xii | Chapter
2018 Heike Pichler (ed.) Discourse-pragmatic variation and change in English Functions of Language 25:3, pp. 423–428 | Review
2018 Chapter 8. Periphrastic do in eighteenth-century correspondence: Emphasis on no social variation Patterns of Change in 18th-century English: A sociolinguistic approach, Nevalainen, Terttu, Minna Palander-Collin and Tanja Säily (eds.), pp. 117–135 | Chapter
2018 Appendix: Editions in the Corpora of Early English Correspondence Patterns of Change in 18th-century English: A sociolinguistic approach, Nevalainen, Terttu, Minna Palander-Collin and Tanja Säily (eds.), pp. 295–304 | Appendix
2017 The future of historical sociolinguistics? Exploring Future Paths for Historical Sociolinguistics, Säily, Tanja, Arja Nurmi, Minna Palander-Collin and Anita Auer (eds.), pp. 1–19 | Chapter
In this chapter we discuss the current achievements of historical sociolinguistics and highlight new insights provided by the contributions in the volume. Taking the essay by Nevalainen (2015) as a starting point, we will consider the themes of crossing boundaries and bridging gaps between… read more
2013 “All the rest ye must lade yourself”: Deontic modality in sixteenth-century English merchant letters Touching the Past: Studies in the historical sociolinguistics of ego-documents, Wal, Marijke J. van der and Gijsbert Rutten (eds.), pp. 165–182 | Article
The negotiation of power and social distance in personal correspondence can be expressed e.g. through deontic modality. By estimating the relative power of writer-recipient dyads and recreating their social network to estimate social distance, this paper attempts to create ways in which to study… read more
2010 The social space of an eighteenth-century governess: Modality and reference in the private letters and journals of Agnes Porter Social Roles and Language Practices in Late Modern English, Pahta, Päivi, Minna Nevala, Arja Nurmi and Minna Palander-Collin (eds.), pp. 163–189 | Article
Social space can be expressed by e.g. the use of modality and person reference. We discuss how variation in power and distance affects the ways an eighteenth-century governess, Agnes Porter, is constrained by her professional role, and by what linguistic means she negotiates shifts between… read more
2010 Preacher, scholar, brother, friend: Social roles and code-switching in the writings of Thomas Twining Social Roles and Language Practices in Late Modern English, Pahta, Päivi, Minna Nevala, Arja Nurmi and Minna Palander-Collin (eds.), pp. 135–162 | Article
no human being talks the same way all the time (Hymes 1984: 44) The article examines variation in the use of multilingual resources in the verbal repertoire of one individual in different social roles involving various contexts of discourse in eighteenth-century England. We discuss the language… read more
2010 Language practices in the construction of social roles in Late Modern English Social Roles and Language Practices in Late Modern English, Pahta, Päivi, Minna Nevala, Arja Nurmi and Minna Palander-Collin (eds.), pp. 1–27 | Article
2009 Negotiating interpersonal identities in writing: Code-switching practices in Charles Burney's correspondence The Language of Daily Life in England (1400–1800), Nurmi, Arja, Minna Nevala and Minna Palander-Collin (eds.), pp. 27–52 | Article
This study examines code-switching in eighteenth-century interpersonal communication, focusing on the correspondence of musician and music historian Charles Burney. The paper builds on our previous work on code-switching in the history of English texts, and draws on insights gained in research in… read more
2009 The language of daily life in the history of English: Studying how macro meets micro The Language of Daily Life in England (1400–1800), Nurmi, Arja, Minna Nevala and Minna Palander-Collin (eds.), pp. 1–23 | Article
2005 Barbara A. Fennell. 2001. A History of English. A Sociolinguistic Approach Journal of Historical Pragmatics 6:1, pp. 169–172 | Miscellaneous
2000 Cognitive Loanwords in Chaucer: Is Suprastandard Nonstandard? Writing in Nonstandard English, Taavitsainen, Irma, Gunnel Melchers and Päivi Pahta (eds.), pp. 205–224 | Article