Corpus-Pragmatic Studies of Democratization in Public Discourses: New perspectives, methods and materials
Edited by Turo Hiltunen, Turo Vartiainen and Jenni Räikkönen
Special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 25:2 (2024) vi, 177 pp.
Jenni Räikkönen
List of John Benjamins publications for which Jenni Räikkönen plays a role.
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2024 Democratisation: How can historical corpus pragmatics contribute to understanding changes in the recent history of English? Corpus-Pragmatic Studies of Democratization in Public Discourses: New perspectives, methods and materials, Hiltunen, Turo, Turo Vartiainen and Jenni Räikkönen (eds.), pp. 177–192 | Introduction
2024 Chapter 4. The European Union as an in-group in British press and parliamentary debates Self- and Other-Reference in Social Contexts: From global to local discourses, Nevala, Minna and Minna Palander-Collin (eds.), pp. 62–88 | Chapter
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
2024 Speaking for the downtrodden: The pragmatics of pronominal references in 200 years of activist speeches Corpus-Pragmatic Studies of Democratization in Public Discourses: New perspectives, methods and materials, Hiltunen, Turo, Turo Vartiainen and Jenni Räikkönen (eds.), pp. 274–301 | Article
Most linguistic studies of political speaking in the field of critical discourse analysis tend to focus on speeches delivered by prominent politicians either in a domestic party-political setting or in the international arena. Less attention has been afforded to speeches by civil rights… read more
2023 Chapter 5. Leaving the EU out of the ingroup: A diachronic analysis of the use of we and us in British parliamentary debates (1973–2015) Exploring Language and Society with Big Data: Parliamentary discourse across time and space, Korhonen, Minna, Haidee Kotze and Jukka Tyrkkö (eds.), pp. 142–165 | Chapter
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
2020 Chapter 2. On the dynamic interaction between peritext and epitext: Punch magazine as a case study The Dynamics of Text and Framing Phenomena: Historical approaches to paratext and metadiscourse in English, Peikola, Matti and Birte Bös (eds.), pp. 33–62 | Chapter
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