Irma Taavitsainen

List of John Benjamins publications for which Irma Taavitsainen plays a role.

Journal

Corpus Pragmatic Studies on the History of Medical Discourse

Edited by Turo Hiltunen and Irma Taavitsainen

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 330] 2022. vii, 322 pp.
Subjects Corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics

Historical Pragmatics today: Articles in honour of Andreas H. Jucker

Edited by Irma Taavitsainen and Jonathan Culpeper

Special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 22:2 (2021) v, 143 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics
Subjects Discourse studies | English linguistics | English literature & literary studies | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics

Late Modern English Medical Texts: Writing medicine in the eighteenth century. Including the LMEMT Corpus

Edited by Irma Taavitsainen and Turo Hiltunen

[Not in series, 221] 2019. xix, 432 pp., incl. CD-RoM
Subjects Discourse studies | English linguistics | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics | 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

Historical (socio)pragmatics at present

Edited by Matylda Włodarczyk and Irma Taavitsainen

Special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 18:2 (2017) v, 180 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics

Diachronic Corpus Pragmatics

Edited by Irma Taavitsainen, Andreas H. Jucker and Jukka Tuominen

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 243] 2014. viii, 335 pp.
Subjects Corpus linguistics | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics

Early Modern English Medical Texts: Corpus description and studies

Edited by Irma Taavitsainen and Päivi Pahta

[Not in series, 160] 2010. xv, 370 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)
Subjects Corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | Electronic/Multimedia Products | English linguistics | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics

Speech Acts in the History of English

Edited by Andreas H. Jucker and Irma Taavitsainen

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 176] 2008. viii, 318 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics

The Dynamics of Linguistic Variation: Corpus evidence on English past and present

Edited by Terttu Nevalainen, Irma Taavitsainen, Päivi Pahta and Minna Korhonen

[Studies in Language Variation, 2] 2008. viii, 339 pp.
Subjects Corpus linguistics | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics

Middle English Medical Texts

Compiled by Irma Taavitsainen, Päivi Pahta and Martti Mäkinen

[Not in series, 131] 2005. CD-ROM
Subjects Corpus linguistics | Electronic/Multimedia Products | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics

Diachronic Perspectives on Address Term Systems

Edited by Irma Taavitsainen and Andreas H. Jucker

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 107] 2003. vii, 441 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics

Writing in Nonstandard English

Edited by Irma Taavitsainen, Gunnel Melchers and Päivi Pahta

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 67] 2000. viii, 404 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | English linguistics | English literature & literary studies | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics | Writing and literacy
Hiltunen, Turo and Irma Taavitsainen 2022 Chapter 1. Corpora, pragmatics, and historical medical discourseCorpus Pragmatic Studies on the History of Medical Discourse, Hiltunen, Turo and Irma Taavitsainen (eds.), pp. 1–20 | Chapter
Taavitsainen, Irma 2021 Medical book reviews 1665–1800: From compliments to insultsHistorical Pragmatics today: Articles in honour of Andreas H. Jucker, Taavitsainen, Irma and Jonathan Culpeper (eds.), pp. 245–262 | Article
This article traces medical book reviews up to 1800 in the first scientific periodical, The Philosophical Transactions (pt 1665–), and the first general magazine, The Gentleman’s Magazine (gm 1665–1922), within the frame of genre theory, focusing on polite and impolite speech acts. pt readers… read more
Taavitsainen, Irma and Jonathan Culpeper 2021 IntroductionHistorical Pragmatics today: Articles in honour of Andreas H. Jucker, Taavitsainen, Irma and Jonathan Culpeper (eds.), pp. 161–163 | Introduction
Early modern jests and drama provide excellent materials for studies on speech-based language. This article focuses on a core group of interjections, alas, lo and O, and assesses their use from a diachronic perspective. The method of study is qualitative stylistic analysis and the data comes… read more
This chapter probes into the controversy of smallpox inoculation that followed soon after the novel method was introduced into England and culminated in the second decade of the eighteenth century. Polemical argumentation displays verbal aggression, and irony and sarcasm take the upper hand in… read more
Taavitsainen, Irma and Andreas H. Jucker 2020 Manners, norms and transgressions: IntroductionManners, Norms and Transgressions in the History of English: Literary and linguistic approaches, Jucker, Andreas H. and Irma Taavitsainen (eds.), pp. 1–23 | Chapter
In this volume we focus on different types of manners, norms and their transgressions. One kind of transgression can be called “blunders” and deals with violations of accepted behaviour, conduct or manners. A second kind draws more attention to language use in interpersonal communication with… read more
Hiltunen, Turo and Irma Taavitsainen 2019 Chapter 1. Towards new knowledge: The corpus of Late Modern English Medical TextsLate Modern English Medical Texts: Writing medicine in the eighteenth century, Taavitsainen, Irma and Turo Hiltunen (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Chapter
Late Modern English Medical Texts (LMEMT) is a new corpus representing printed medical writing in the eighteenth century. This chapter describes the structure and the main compilation principles of the corpus. Representativeness is a complex notion in corpus linguistics in general,… read more
Lehto, Anu and Irma Taavitsainen 2019 Chapter 5. Medical case reports in Late Modern EnglishLate Modern English Medical Texts: Writing medicine in the eighteenth century, Taavitsainen, Irma and Turo Hiltunen (eds.), pp. 89–112 | Chapter
This chapter shifts the focus to the patients, using discourse analysis. The medical case report is a narrative of a single case of disease or injury and it is one of the genres that have continuity throughout the history of English medical writing from the late medieval period to the present.… read more
Lehto, Anu and Irma Taavitsainen 2019 11.3. Medical recipe collectionsLate Modern English Medical Texts: Writing medicine in the eighteenth century, Taavitsainen, Irma and Turo Hiltunen (eds.), pp. 279–288 | Miscellaneous
Lehto, Anu and Irma Taavitsainen 2019 11.2b. MethodsLate Modern English Medical Texts: Writing medicine in the eighteenth century, Taavitsainen, Irma and Turo Hiltunen (eds.), pp. 251–260 | Miscellaneous
Suhr, Carla and Irma Taavitsainen 2019 11.2c. Therapeutic substancesLate Modern English Medical Texts: Writing medicine in the eighteenth century, Taavitsainen, Irma and Turo Hiltunen (eds.), pp. 261–270 | Miscellaneous
This study focuses on stylistic features in medical texts for different audiences in various channels of publication. My aim is to explore whether there are differences between medical writings for professional and lay audiences. Authors mostly belonged to educated professionals who wrote for their… read more
Taavitsainen, Irma 2019 11.8. General periodical: The Gentleman’s MagazineLate Modern English Medical Texts: Writing medicine in the eighteenth century, Taavitsainen, Irma and Turo Hiltunen (eds.), pp. 327–336 | Miscellaneous
Taavitsainen, Irma 2019 11.1. General treatises and textbooksLate Modern English Medical Texts: Writing medicine in the eighteenth century, Taavitsainen, Irma and Turo Hiltunen (eds.), pp. 231–238 | Miscellaneous
This chapter presents a pragmatic study on polite society language practices. Politeness, sociability, and concern for public good have been pointed out as values underpinning the late eighteenth-century culture among gentility, and it was important to recognize one’s own position in relation to… read more
Taavitsainen, Irma, Gerold Schneider and Peter Murray Jones 2019 Chapter 3. Topics of eighteenth-century medical writing with triangulation of methods: LMEMT and the underlying realityLate Modern English Medical Texts: Writing medicine in the eighteenth century, Taavitsainen, Irma and Turo Hiltunen (eds.), pp. 31–74 | Chapter
This chapter deals with the most important developments within society and the medical discourse community in the eighteenth-century Britain. It applies several methods by way of triangulation to probe into relevant aspects of the history of medicine and medical writing between 1700 and 1800. The… read more
Taavitsainen, Irma, Peter Murray Jones and Turo Hiltunen 2019 Chapter 2. Sociohistorical and cultural context of Late Modern English Medical TextsLate Modern English Medical Texts: Writing medicine in the eighteenth century, Taavitsainen, Irma and Turo Hiltunen (eds.), pp. 17–30 | Chapter
The eighteenth century presents as a transition period towards more modern practices in medical history. In this chapter we probe into these developments as reflected in medical writing and provide a sociohistorical overview of the background for the corpus. When compared to the earlier phases of… read more
Taavitsainen, Irma 2018 Scholastic genre scripts in English medical writing 1375–1800Diachronic Corpora, Genre, and Language Change, Whitt, Richard J. (ed.), pp. 95–116 | Chapter
Late medieval scientific and medical writing had several different genres and levels of writing from the beginning. Learned genres, including commentaries, were introduced into English with the vernacularization boom. The Latin “genre script” lists ancient authorities’ opinions of a topic,… read more
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
Sklar, Howard and Irma Taavitsainen 2017 Chapter 5. A modest proposal in The Gentleman’s Magazine: A peculiar eighteenth-century advertisementDiachronic Developments in English News Discourse, Palander-Collin, Minna, Maura Ratia and Irma Taavitsainen (eds.), pp. 81–96 | Chapter
The Gentleman’s Magazine (GM, 1732–1922) was the first periodical magazine targeted at an educated lay readership from polite society. Medical items and related issues were a regular feature, e.g. suicide was a recurring topic in its early years. One example of this was a 1755 mock advertisement… read more
Taavitsainen, Irma 2017 Meaning-making practices in the history of medical English: A sociopragmatic approachHistorical (socio)pragmatics at present, Włodarczyk, Matylda and Irma Taavitsainen (eds.), pp. 252–270 | Article
Genres work through conventions of communicative patterns. Variation in them is related to sociolinguistic parameters of writers and readers as well as situational and contextual factors, including culture. Conventions of writing change slowly and there are elements that remain constant… read more
Włodarczyk, Matylda and Irma Taavitsainen 2017 Introduction: Historical (socio)pragmatics at presentHistorical (socio)pragmatics at present, Włodarczyk, Matylda and Irma Taavitsainen (eds.), pp. 159–174 | Introduction
This introductory paper defines the present state of the art of historical (socio)pragmatics. We single out interactional and social foci as the most important, and we briefly characterise some more narrowly defined perspectives. These involve a politeness-related view that relies on relational… read more
This article is based on three early periodicals: The Philosophical Transactions for the Royal Society (PT, 1665–), The Edinburgh Medical Journal (EMJ, 1733–), and The Gentleman’s Magazine (GM, 1731–). A broad and inclusive selection of unexplored texts comes from a period in which conventions of… read more
This paper provides an outline of the changes in linguistics that gave rise to historical pragmatics in the 1990s and that have shaped its development over the twenty years of its existence. These changes have affected virtually all aspects of linguistic analyses: the nature of the data, the… read more
Jucker, Andreas H. and Irma Taavitsainen 2014 Complimenting in the history of American English: A metacommunicative expression analysisDiachronic Corpus Pragmatics, Taavitsainen, Irma, Andreas H. Jucker and Jukka Tuominen (eds.), pp. 257–276 | Article
Speech acts are functional entities and can, therefore, not be searched for directly in large computerised corpora. They can only be located on the basis of specific patterns that are known to be typical for a particular speech act, e.g. with IFIDs like “(I’m) sorry”. In this contribution we… read more
Jucker, Andreas H. and Irma Taavitsainen 2014 Diachronic corpus pragmatics: Intersections and interactionsDiachronic Corpus Pragmatics, Taavitsainen, Irma, Andreas H. Jucker and Jukka Tuominen (eds.), pp. 3–26 | Article
Pahta, Päivi and Irma Taavitsainen 2010 Introducing Early Modern English Medical TextsEarly Modern English Medical Texts: Corpus description and studies, Taavitsainen, Irma and Päivi Pahta (eds.), pp. 1–8 | Article
Taavitsainen, Irma 2010 Expanding the borders of knowledgeEarly Modern English Medical Texts: Corpus description and studies, Taavitsainen, Irma and Päivi Pahta (eds.), pp. 11–12 | Article

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Taavitsainen, Irma 2010 Discourse and genre dynamics in early modern english medical writingEarly Modern English Medical Texts: Corpus description and studies, Taavitsainen, Irma and Päivi Pahta (eds.), pp. 29–54 | Article
Taavitsainen, Irma and Carla Suhr 2010 Appendix: Medicine in societyEarly Modern English Medical Texts: Corpus description and studies, Taavitsainen, Irma and Päivi Pahta (eds.), pp. 133–146 | Appendix
Taavitsainen, Irma and Jukka Tyrkkö 2010 Category 1: General treatises and textbooksEarly Modern English Medical Texts: Corpus description and studies, Taavitsainen, Irma and Päivi Pahta (eds.), pp. 65–72 | Article
Taavitsainen, Irma and Jukka Tyrkkö 2010 The field of medical writing with fuzzy edgesEarly Modern English Medical Texts: Corpus description and studies, Taavitsainen, Irma and Päivi Pahta (eds.), pp. 57–62 | Article
Taavitsainen, Irma 2009 Authority and instruction in two sixteenth-century medical dialoguesInstructional Writing in English: Studies in honour of Risto Hiltunen, Peikola, Matti, Janne Skaffari and Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen (eds.), pp. 105–124 | Article
Jucker, Andreas H. and Irma Taavitsainen 2008 Apologies in the history of English: Routinized and lexicalized expressions of responsibility and regretSpeech Acts in the History of English, Jucker, Andreas H. and Irma Taavitsainen (eds.), pp. 229–244 | Article
Jucker, Andreas H., Gerold Schneider, Irma Taavitsainen and Barb Breustedt 2008 Fishing for compliments: Precision and recall in corpus-linguistic compliment researchSpeech Acts in the History of English, Jucker, Andreas H. and Irma Taavitsainen (eds.), pp. 273–294 | Article
Nevalainen, Terttu, Irma Taavitsainen and Päivi Pahta 2008 Exploring the dynamics of linguistic variation through public and private corporaThe Dynamics of Linguistic Variation: Corpus evidence on English past and present, Nevalainen, Terttu, Irma Taavitsainen, Päivi Pahta and Minna Korhonen (eds.), pp. 1–9 | Article
Taavitsainen, Irma and Andreas H. Jucker 2008 "Methinks you seem more beautiful than ever": Compliments and gender in the history of EnglishSpeech Acts in the History of English, Jucker, Andreas H. and Irma Taavitsainen (eds.), pp. 195–228 | Article
Taavitsainen, Irma and Andreas H. Jucker 2008 Speech acts now and then: Towards a pragmatic history of EnglishSpeech Acts in the History of English, Jucker, Andreas H. and Irma Taavitsainen (eds.), pp. 1–23 | Article
Taavitsainen, Irma 2005 Genres and the appropriation of science: Loci communes in English in the late medieval and early modern periodOpening Windows on Texts and Discourses of the Past, Skaffari, Janne, Matti Peikola, Ruth Carroll, Risto Hiltunen and Brita Wårvik (eds.), pp. 179–196 | Article
According to the theory of appropriation, the same text can be perceived in different ways by different audiences. There are no stable meanings, but significations are constructed in different ways according to the competence of the audience. This article sets out to explore whether and how… read more
Jucker, Andreas H. and Irma Taavitsainen 2003 1. Diachronic perspectives on address term systems: IntroductionDiachronic Perspectives on Address Term Systems, Taavitsainen, Irma and Andreas H. Jucker (eds.), pp. 1–25 | Article
This article focuses on Middle English medical recipes and aims to show that the concepts of “genre”, “text type” and “text tradition” provide useful tools for historical discourse analysis, as they operate in different ways and illustrate various sides of medieval texts. Medical recipes are a… read more
Jucker, Andreas H. and Irma Taavitsainen 2000 EditorialJournal of Historical Pragmatics 1:1, pp. v–vi | Miscellaneous
Jucker, Andreas H. and Irma Taavitsainen 2000 Diachronic speech act analysis: Insults from flyting to flamingJournal of Historical Pragmatics 1:1, pp. 67–95 | Article
In this paper we want to develop a model for the diachronic analysis of speech acts by tracing one particular speech act through the history of English, viz. insults. Speech acts are fuzzy concepts which show both diachronic and synchronic variation. We therefore propose a notion of a… read more
Taavitsainen, Irma and Gunnel Melchers 2000 PrefaceWriting in Nonstandard English, Taavitsainen, Irma, Gunnel Melchers and Päivi Pahta (eds.), pp. vii–viii | Preface
Taavitsainen, Irma and Saara Nevanlinna 2000 Nonstandard Language in Early Varieties of EnglishWriting in Nonstandard English, Taavitsainen, Irma, Gunnel Melchers and Päivi Pahta (eds.), pp. 123–150 | Article
Taavitsainen, Irma 1999 Dialogues in Late Medieval and Early Modern English Medical WritingHistorical Dialogue Analysis, Jucker, Andreas H., Gerd Fritz and Franz Lebsanft (eds.), pp. 243–268 | Article