Jenni Räikkönen

List of John Benjamins publications for which Jenni Räikkönen plays a role.

Articles

This chapter focuses on the representation of the European Union as an in-group in British parliamentary debates and newspaper articles in 1974–2015. The focus is on contexts in which the EU is referred to by the first-person plural pronoun we or us. Employing the methods of corpus-assisted… read more
In this chapter, I examine what types of diachronic changes the use of first-person plural pronouns signal in the way the EU has been discussed in the British House of Commons. By using methods of corpus-assisted discourse studies, I analyse the use of the pronouns in relation to the EU in… read more
Originally introduced in literary theory, Gerard Genette’s concept of paratext has been increasingly adopted in historical linguistics as a collective term for features other than the so-called ‘body text’. While this development and the renewed attention to these features is welcome, we argue… read more