Jan-Ola Östman

List of John Benjamins publications for which Jan-Ola Östman plays a role.

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Journal

Online Resource

Titles

Risk Discourse and Responsibility

Edited by Annelie Ädel and Jan-Ola Östman

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 336] 2023. vii, 260 pp.
Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics

Handbook of Pragmatics: 24th Annual Installment

Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren

[Handbook of Pragmatics, 24] 2022. xiii, 284 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics

Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual. Second edition

Edited by Jef Verschueren and Jan-Ola Östman

[Handbook of Pragmatics, M2] 2022. xxi, 1882 pp. (2 vols.)
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics

Handbook of Pragmatics: 23rd Annual Installment

Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren

[Handbook of Pragmatics, 23] 2020. xiii, 272 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics

Handbook of Pragmatics: 22nd Annual Installment

Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren

[Handbook of Pragmatics, 22] 2019. xiii, 264 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics

Handbook of Pragmatics: 21st Annual Installment

Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren

[Handbook of Pragmatics, 21] 2018. xi, 285 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics

Socio-onomastics: The pragmatics of names

Edited by Terhi Ainiala and Jan-Ola Östman

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 275] 2017. vi, 231 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

Constructions across Grammars

Edited by Martin Hilpert and Jan-Ola Östman

[Benjamins Current Topics, 82] 2016. v, 206 pp.
Subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

Handbook of Pragmatics: 2016 Installment

Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren

[Handbook of Pragmatics, 20] 2016. viii, 220 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics

Handbook of Pragmatics: 2015 Installment

Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren

[Handbook of Pragmatics, 19] 2015. viii, 240 pp.
Subjects Pragmatics

Reflections on Constructions across Grammars

Edited by Martin Hilpert and Jan-Ola Östman

Special issue of Constructions and Frames 6:2 (2014) v, 201 pp.
Subjects Cognition and language | Functional linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

Handbook of Pragmatics: 2014 Installment

Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren

[Handbook of Pragmatics, 18] 2014. viii, 270 pp.
Subjects Pragmatics

Handbook of Pragmatics: 2013 Installment

Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren

[Handbook of Pragmatics, 17] 2013. xiii, 268 pp.
Subjects Pragmatics

Pragmaticizing Understanding: Studies for Jef Verschueren

Edited by Michael Meeuwis and Jan-Ola Östman

[Not in series, 170] 2012. vi, 230 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics

Handbook of Pragmatics: 2012 Installment

Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren

[Handbook of Pragmatics, 16] 2012. 248 pp.
Subjects Pragmatics

Pragmatics in Practice

Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren

[Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights, 9] 2011. xi, 326 pp.
Subjects Applied linguistics | Pragmatics

Handbook of Pragmatics: 2011 Installment

Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren

[Handbook of Pragmatics, 15] 2011. vi, 303 pp.
Subjects Pragmatics

Philosophical Perspectives for Pragmatics

Edited by Marina Sbisà, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren

[Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights, 10] 2011. xv, 318 pp.
Subjects Philosophy | Pragmatics | Semantics

Discursive Pragmatics

Edited by Jan Zienkowski, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren

[Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights, 8] 2011. xv, 307 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics

Variation and Change: Pragmatic perspectives

Edited by Mirjam Fried, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren

[Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights, 6] 2010. x, 275 pp.
Subjects Historical linguistics | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

Society and Language Use

Edited by Jürgen Jaspers, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren

[Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights, 7] 2010. xiii, 324 pp.
Subjects Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

Handbook of Pragmatics: 2010 Installment

Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren

[Handbook of Pragmatics, 14] 2010. 520 pp.
Subjects Pragmatics

Grammar, Meaning and Pragmatics

Edited by Frank Brisard, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren

[Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights, 5] 2009. xiii, 308 pp.
Subjects Pragmatics | Semantics | Syntax

The Pragmatics of Interaction

Edited by Sigurd D’hondt, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren

[Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights, 4] 2009. xiii, 262 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

Handbook of Pragmatics: 2009 Installment

Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren

[Handbook of Pragmatics, 13] 2009. vi, 421 pp.
Subjects Pragmatics

Cognition and Pragmatics

Edited by Dominiek Sandra, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren

[Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights, 3] 2009. xvii, 399 pp.
Subjects Cognition and language | Pragmatics

Culture and Language Use

Edited by Gunter Senft, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren

[Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights, 2] 2009. xiii, 280 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics

Key Notions for Pragmatics

Edited by Jef Verschueren and Jan-Ola Östman

[Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights, 1] 2009. xiii, 253 pp.
Subjects Pragmatics

Handbook of Pragmatics: 2008 Installment

Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren

[Handbook of Pragmatics, 12] 2008. vii, 200 pp.
Subjects Pragmatics

Handbook of Pragmatics: 2007 Installment

Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren

[Handbook of Pragmatics, 11] 2007. vi, 315 pp. (incl. binder)
Subjects Pragmatics

Handbook of Pragmatics: 2006 Installment

Edited by Jef Verschueren and Jan-Ola Östman

[Handbook of Pragmatics, 10] 2006. vi, 500 pp.
Subjects Pragmatics

Construction Grammars: Cognitive grounding and theoretical extensions

Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Mirjam Fried

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 3] 2005. viii, 325 pp.
Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

Handbook of Pragmatics: 2003–2005 Installment

Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren

[Handbook of Pragmatics, 9] 2005. 311 pp. (incl. binder)
Subjects Pragmatics

Construction Grammar in a Cross-Language Perspective

Edited by Mirjam Fried and Jan-Ola Östman

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 2] 2004. vi, 209 pp.
Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

Handbook of Pragmatics: 2002 Installment

Edited by Jef Verschueren, Jan-Ola Östman, Jan Blommaert † and Chris Bulcaen

[Handbook of Pragmatics, 8] 2003. viii, 402 pp.
Subjects Pragmatics
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Handbook of Pragmatics Online

Edited by Jef Verschueren, Jan-Ola Östman, Jan Blommaert † and Chris Bulcaen

Subjects Electronic/Multimedia Products | Pragmatics

Handbook of Pragmatics: 2001 Installment

Edited by Jef Verschueren, Jan-Ola Östman, Jan Blommaert † and Chris Bulcaen

[Handbook of Pragmatics, 7] 2003. vi, 299 pp.
Subjects Pragmatics

Handbook of Pragmatics: 2000 Installment

Edited by Jef Verschueren, Jan-Ola Östman, Jan Blommaert † and Chris Bulcaen

[Handbook of Pragmatics, 6] 2002. iv, 298 pp.
Subjects Pragmatics

Handbook of Pragmatics: 1999 Installment

Edited by Jef Verschueren, Jan-Ola Östman, Jan Blommaert † and Chris Bulcaen

[Handbook of Pragmatics, 5] 2001. vi, 282 pp.
Subjects Pragmatics

Handbook of Pragmatics: 1998 Installment

Edited by Jef Verschueren, Jan-Ola Östman, Jan Blommaert † and Chris Bulcaen

[Handbook of Pragmatics, 4] 2000. vi, 342 pp.
Subjects Pragmatics

Handbook of Pragmatics: 1997 Installment

Edited by Jef Verschueren, Jan-Ola Östman, Jan Blommaert † and Chris Bulcaen

[Handbook of Pragmatics, 3] 1999. 297 pp.
Subjects Pragmatics

Handbook of Pragmatics: 1996 Installment

Edited by Jef Verschueren, Jan-Ola Östman, Jan Blommaert † and Chris Bulcaen

[Handbook of Pragmatics, 2] 1997. vi, 268 pp.
Subjects Pragmatics

Handbook of Pragmatics: 1995 Installment

Edited by Jef Verschueren, Jan-Ola Östman, Jan Blommaert † and Chris Bulcaen

[Handbook of Pragmatics, 1] 1996. 336 pp. + Binder
Subjects Pragmatics

Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual

Edited by Jef Verschueren, Jan-Ola Östman and Jan Blommaert †

[Handbook of Pragmatics, M] 1995. xiv, 658 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics

You Know: A discourse-functional approach

Jan-Ola Östman

[Pragmatics & Beyond, II:7] 1981. ix, 91 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics

Articles

Ädel, Annelie, Jan-Ola Östman and Catharina Nyström Höög 2023 Chapter 1. From risk and responsibility to risk discourseRisk Discourse and Responsibility, Ädel, Annelie and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 2–37 | Chapter
Risk communication is widely researched in the social sciences, but in linguistics the study of how risk is communicated has not yet formed a coherent field of its own. In this chapter, we approach risk from a discourse perspective, aiming to promote the establishment of risk discourse as a… read more
Meeuwis, Michael and Jan-Ola Östman 2022 Contact linguisticsHandbook of Pragmatics: Manual, Verschueren, Jef and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 325–332 | Chapter
Östman, Jan-Ola and Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen 2022 Firthian linguisticsHandbook of Pragmatics: Manual, Verschueren, Jef and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 558–562 | Chapter
Östman, Jan-Ola and Tuija Virtanen 2022 Text and discourse linguisticsHandbook of Pragmatics: Manual, Verschueren, Jef and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 1376–1393 | Chapter
Östman, Jan-Ola 2020 Constructions as discourse-restrained flexible prototypesThe Wealth and Breadth of Construction-Based Research, Colleman, Timothy, Frank Brisard, Astrid De Wit, Renata Enghels, Nikos Koutsoukos, Tanja Mortelmans and María Sol Sansiñena (eds.), pp. 273–282 | Article
Constructions are abstractions of resources we have available as ways of expressing ourselves. The study argues for the feasibility of seeing constructions as flexible prototypes in terms of which we categorize the world: constructions have few if any necessary and sufficient conditions that are… read more
The study takes the position that constructions (as form–meaning–function constellations) are not by definition language specific. This position is supported and illustrated with a case where different types of passive constructions in one language come in contact with ways of expressing comparable… read more
Ainiala, Terhi and Jan-Ola Östman 2017 Chapter 1. Introduction: Socio-onomastics and pragmaticsSocio-onomastics: The pragmatics of names, Ainiala, Terhi and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Chapter
Hilpert, Martin and Jan-Ola Östman 2016 Reflections on Constructions across GrammarsConstructions across Grammars, Hilpert, Martin and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 1–6 | Article
Hilpert, Martin and Jan-Ola Östman 2014 Reflections on Constructions across GrammarsReflections on Constructions across Grammars, Hilpert, Martin and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 137–142 | Article
Moring, Tom, Sebastian Godenhjelm, Saara Haapamäki, Jan Lindström, Jan-Ola Östman, Mirja Saari and Jenny Sylvin 2013 Chapter 14. Language policies in universities and their outcomes: The University of Helsinki in a Northern European contextExploring the Dynamics of Multilingualism: The DYLAN project, Berthoud, Anne-Claude, François Grin and Georges Lüdi (eds.), pp. 299–322 | Article
This chapter explores multilingualism in higher education in the Nordic countries with a particular focus on the University of Helsinki. It applies policy analysis and discourse analytic approaches in an effort to scrutinize the existence of language policies at different levels (EU, national, and… read more
Meeuwis, Michael and Jan-Ola Östman 2012 On how to pragmaticize understandingPragmaticizing Understanding: Studies for Jef Verschueren, Meeuwis, Michael and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Article
Östman, Jan-Ola and Tuija Virtanen 2012 Text and discourse linguisticsHandbook of Pragmatics: 2012 Installment, Östman, Jan-Ola and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 1–24 | Article
Östman, Jan-Ola 2011 Introduction: Pragmatics and praxisPragmatics in Practice, Östman, Jan-Ola and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 1–22 | Article
Östman, Jan-Ola and Tuija Virtanen 2011 Text and discourse linguisticsDiscursive Pragmatics, Zienkowski, Jan, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 266–285 | Article
Meeuwis, Michael and Jan-Ola Östman 2010 Contact linguisticsVariation and Change: Pragmatic perspectives, Fried, Mirjam, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 36–45 | Article
Meeuwis, Michael and Jan-Ola Östman 2009 Contact linguisticsHandbook of Pragmatics: 2009 Installment, Östman, Jan-Ola and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 1–11 | Article
Östman, Jan-Ola and Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen 2009 Firthian linguisticsCulture and Language Use, Senft, Gunter, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 140–145 | Article
Leino, Jaakko and Jan-Ola Östman 2005 8. Constructions and variabilityGrammatical Constructions: Back to the roots, Fried, Mirjam and Hans C. Boas (eds.), pp. 191–213 | Chapter
Östman, Jan-Ola 2005 Construction Discourse: A prolegomenonConstruction Grammars: Cognitive grounding and theoretical extensions, Östman, Jan-Ola and Mirjam Fried (eds.), pp. 121–144 | Chapter
Östman, Jan-Ola 2005 Persuasion as implicit anchoring: The case of collocationsPersuasion Across Genres: A linguistic approach, Halmari, Helena and Tuija Virtanen (eds.), pp. 183–212 | Chapter
Östman, Jan-Ola and Mirjam Fried 2005 The Cognitive grounding of Constructional GrammarConstruction Grammars: Cognitive grounding and theoretical extensions, Östman, Jan-Ola and Mirjam Fried (eds.), pp. 1–13 | Chapter
Fried, Mirjam and Jan-Ola Östman 2004 Construction Grammar: A thumbnail sketchConstruction Grammar in a Cross-Language Perspective, Fried, Mirjam and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 11–86 | Chapter
Östman, Jan-Ola and Mirjam Fried 2004 Historical and intellectual background of Construction GrammarConstruction Grammar in a Cross-Language Perspective, Fried, Mirjam and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 1–10 | Chapter
Kuusisto, Pekka and Jan-Ola Östman 1997 The Media as Mediator: How foreigner discourse constructs ideology in Finnish newspapersPolitical Linguistics, Blommaert, Jan † and Chris Bulcaen (eds.), pp. 157–182 | Article
Östman, Jan-Ola 1996 Recasting the Deictic foundation, using physics and FinnishEssays in Semantics and Pragmatics: In honor of Charles J. Fillmore, Shibatani, Masayoshi and Sandra A. Thompson (eds.), pp. 247 ff. | Article
Meeuwis, Michael and Jan-Ola Östman 1995 Contact linguisticsHandbook of Pragmatics: Manual, Verschueren, Jef, Jan-Ola Östman and Jan Blommaert † (eds.), pp. 177–182 | Article
Östman, Jan-Ola and Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen 1995 Firthian linguisticsHandbook of Pragmatics: Manual, Verschueren, Jef, Jan-Ola Östman and Jan Blommaert † (eds.), pp. 278–282 | Article
Östman, Jan-Ola and Tuija Virtanen 1995 Discourse analysisHandbook of Pragmatics: Manual, Verschueren, Jef, Jan-Ola Östman and Jan Blommaert † (eds.), pp. 239–253 | Article
Östman, Jan-Ola 1989 Testing Iconicity: Sentence Structure and PolitenessUniversals of Language, Kefer, Michel and Johan van der Auwera (eds.), pp. 145–163 | Article
Östman, Jan-Ola 1987 8. Implicit involvement in interactive writingThe Pragmatic Perspective: Selected papers from the 1985 International Pragmatics Conference, Verschueren, Jef and Marcella Bertuccelli Papi (eds.), pp. 155 ff. | Chapter