Minna Palander-Collin

List of John Benjamins publications for which Minna Palander-Collin plays a role.

Titles

Self- and Other-Reference in Social Contexts: From global to local discourses

Edited by Minna Nevala and Minna Palander-Collin

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 342] 2024. v, 195 pp.
Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics

Patterns of Change in 18th-century English: A sociolinguistic approach

Edited by Terttu Nevalainen, Minna Palander-Collin and Tanja Säily

Subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

Diachronic Developments in English News Discourse

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

[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 6] 2017. vii, 301 pp.
Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics

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

Articles

Palander-Collin, Minna and Minna Nevala 2024 Chapter 1. Self- and other-reference in social contexts: From global to local discoursesSelf- and Other-Reference in Social Contexts: From global to local discourses, Nevala, Minna and Minna Palander-Collin (eds.), pp. 1–13 | Chapter
This introductory chapter sets the scene for the contributions to this volume which are all focused on the analysis of self- and other-reference in social contexts. In this chapter, we provide an overview of previous approaches to reference and context, offering a foundation on which the… read more
Vartiainen, Turo and Minna Palander-Collin 2023 Chapter 6. From masters and servants to  employers  and employees: Exploring democratisation with big dataExploring Language and Society with Big Data: Parliamentary discourse across time and space, Korhonen, Minna, Haidee Kotze and Jukka Tyrkkö (eds.), pp. 166–193 | Chapter
This chapter explores how societal democratisation can be studied by using linguistic big data. More specifically, we are interested in establishing whether it is possible to see how the gradual democratisation of society affected the employment relationship in nineteenth-century Britain by… read more
Palander-Collin, Minna 2018 Chapter 10. Ongoing change: The diffusion of the third-person neuter possessive itsPatterns of Change in 18th-century English: A sociolinguistic approach, Nevalainen, Terttu, Minna Palander-Collin and Tanja Säily (eds.), pp. 159–177 | Chapter
Ratia, Maura, Minna Palander-Collin and Irma Taavitsainen 2017 Chapter 1. English news discourse from newsbooks to new mediaDiachronic 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
Säily, Tanja, Arja Nurmi, Minna Palander-Collin and Anita Auer 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
The inclusion of advertisers, audiences and other persons, i.e. person-mention, in late 18th- and early 19th-century English advertisements is a salient feature of advertising style. As person-mention decreases during the century, this study explores how the change progresses from 1785 to 1880 in… read more
Palander-Collin, Minna 2011 Variation and change in patterns of self-reference in early English correspondenceHistorical Sociopragmatics, Culpeper, Jonathan (ed.), pp. 83–108 | Article
Nevala, Minna and Minna Palander-Collin 2010 “O England! England! She says – my Father – my Sisters – my friends! – shall I ever see you more?”: Reporting in 18th-century correspondenceDiscourses in Interaction, Tanskanen, Sanna-Kaisa, Marja-Liisa Helasvuo, Marjut Johansson and Mia Raitaniemi (eds.), pp. 133–150 | Article
This study focuses on reporting in the letters of eighteenth-century writer Frances (Fanny) Burney. Our purpose is to study the occurrence of reporting from a socio-pragmatic perspective, with the aim of understanding the function of reporting in all its communicative situations as well as in… read more
Pahta, Päivi, Minna Palander-Collin, Minna Nevala and Arja Nurmi 2010 Language practices in the construction of social roles in Late Modern EnglishSocial Roles and Language Practices in Late Modern English, Pahta, Päivi, Minna Nevala, Arja Nurmi and Minna Palander-Collin (eds.), pp. 1–27 | Article
Palander-Collin, Minna and Minna Nevala 2010 Reporting and social role construction in eighteenth-century personal correspondenceSocial Roles and Language Practices in Late Modern English, Pahta, Päivi, Minna Nevala, Arja Nurmi and Minna Palander-Collin (eds.), pp. 111–133 | Article
Choosing who and what to report, writers adopt a position in interaction that serves their needs and expectations of the situation as well as the addressee’s expected needs. In this paper, we study reporting from a socio-pragmatic perspective with the aim of understanding the function of reporting… read more
Palander-Collin, Minna 2009 Variation and change in patterns of self-reference in early English correspondenceHistorical Sociopragmatics, Culpeper, Jonathan (ed.), pp. 260–285 | Article
The pronoun I indexes the speaker or writer in place and time but also situates him or her in the moral order as the person responsible for what is uttered (Mühlhäusler and Harré 1990). Consequently, this paper asks (1) what gentlemen of the Early and Late Modern England could say about themselves… read more
Palander-Collin, Minna 2009 Patterns of interaction: Self-mention and addressee inclusion in letters of Nathaniel Bacon and his correspondentsThe Language of Daily Life in England (1400–1800), Nurmi, Arja, Minna Nevala and Minna Palander-Collin (eds.), pp. 53–74 | Article
This paper explores patterns of interaction in late sixteenth-century personal letters. Self-mention (I) and addressee inclusion (you vs nominal title) are studied quantitatively and qualitatively in the letters of Norfolk gentleman Nathaniel Bacon and his correspondents to see how social… read more
Palander-Collin, Minna, Minna Nevala and Arja Nurmi 2009 The language of daily life in the history of English: Studying how macro meets microThe Language of Daily Life in England (1400–1800), Nurmi, Arja, Minna Nevala and Minna Palander-Collin (eds.), pp. 1–23 | Article
Palander-Collin, Minna 2000 Auxiliary Do in Fifteenth-Century English: Dialectal Variation and Formulaic UseWriting in Nonstandard English, Taavitsainen, Irma, Gunnel Melchers and Päivi Pahta (eds.), pp. 225 ff. | Article