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.
Maura Ratia
List of John Benjamins publications for which Maura Ratia plays a role.
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Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics
2020 Finding evidence for a changing society: A collocational study of medical discourse in 1500–1800 Corpora and the Changing Society: Studies in the evolution of English, Rautionaho, Paula, Arja Nurmi and Juhani Klemola (eds.), pp. 57–78 | Chapter
This chapter examines, with the help of collocation analysis, how patients were viewed in medical texts from 1500 to 1800. Previous studies have suggested that this period witnessed considerable changes in society. The field of medicine also underwent major developments during this time, but… read more
2019 11.2a. Diseases Late Modern English Medical Texts: Writing medicine in the eighteenth century, Taavitsainen, Irma and Turo Hiltunen (eds.), pp. 243–249 | Miscellaneous
2017 Chapter 1. English news discourse from newsbooks to new media Diachronic 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
2010 Improving the precision of corpus methods: The standardized version of Early Modern English Medical Texts Early Modern English Medical Texts: Corpus description and studies, Taavitsainen, Irma and Päivi Pahta (eds.), pp. 279–290 | Article
2010 Category 2: Treatises on specific topics Early Modern English Medical Texts: Corpus description and studies, Taavitsainen, Irma and Päivi Pahta (eds.), pp. 73–100 | Article
2005 Personal pronouns in argumentation: An early tobacco controversy Opening Windows on Texts and Discourses of the Past, Skaffari, Janne, Matti Peikola, Ruth Carroll, Risto Hiltunen and Brita Wårvik (eds.), pp. 123–141 | Article
This article examines the use of personal pronouns in argumentation in two medical texts about the health effects of tobacco. The pamphlets were written in 1601 and 1602; the latter was written as a reply to the first. My method is qualitative, combining elements from different theories and it is… read more