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.
Turo Vartiainen
List of John Benjamins publications for which Turo Vartiainen plays a role.
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2024 A corpus-pragmatic analysis of linguistic democratisation in the British Hansard: Comparing the two Houses Corpus-Pragmatic Studies of Democratization in Public Discourses: New perspectives, methods and materials, Hiltunen, Turo, Turo Vartiainen and Jenni Räikkönen (eds.), pp. 245–273 | Article
In this article, we investigate changes in British parliamentary discourse by using the Hansard Corpus (1803–2005). Our first goal is to determine whether parliamentary speeches have become colloquialised by studying frequency changes of select features associated with informal spoken language.… read more
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 Changing styles of letter-writing? Evidence from 400 years of early English letters in a POS-tagged corpus Unlocking the History of English: Pragmatics, prescriptivism and text types, Caon, Luisella, Moragh S. Gordon and Thijs Porck (eds.), pp. 154–179 | Chapter
We analyse the social embedding of stylistic change in the frequencies of nouns, lexical verbs and personal pronouns in the Corpora of Early English Correspondence from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century. Our visualization methods show that the frequency of nouns exhibits a consistent… read more
2024 Engaging with bad (meta)data in historical corpus linguistics Challenges in Corpus Linguistics: Rethinking corpus compilation and analysis, Kaunisto, Mark and Marco Schilk (eds.), pp. 9–34 | Chapter
In this chapter, we discuss some common pitfalls related to historical data and its use in linguistic analysis. We argue that the “philologist’s dilemma”, as originally proposed by Rissanen (1989), should be reconceptualized to meet the needs of the fast-evolving field of corpus linguistics,… read more
2023 Chapter 6. From masters and servants to employers and employees: Exploring democratisation with big data Exploring 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
2020 Changes in transitivity and reflexive uses of sit (me/myself down) in Early and Late Modern English Corpora and the Changing Society: Studies in the evolution of English, Rautionaho, Paula, Arja Nurmi and Juhani Klemola (eds.), pp. 277–302 | Chapter
This chapter seeks to establish if the Transitivity Hypothesis (Hopper & Thompson 1980) can explain the variation in the use of two reflexive strategies with the verb sit in Early Modern English (e.g. I sat me down/I sat myself down) and the verb’s subsequent transitivization (e.g. he sat me down).… read more
2017 Exploring part-of-speech frequencies in a sociohistorical corpus of English Exploring Future Paths for Historical Sociolinguistics, Säily, Tanja, Arja Nurmi, Minna Palander-Collin and Anita Auer (eds.), pp. 23–52 | Chapter
We investigate the usefulness of part-of-speech (POS) annotation as a tool in the study of sociolinguistic variation and genre evolution. We analyse how POS ratios change over time in the Parsed Corpus of Early English Correspondence (c.1410–1681), which social groups lead the changes, and whether… read more