Publications
Rissanen, Matti. 2007. The sullen and the talkative: Discourse strategies in the Salem examinations. Journal of Historical Pragmatics 8 (1) : 1–24.
Rissanen, Matti. 2002. Fairly pretty or pretty fair? On the development and grammaticalization of English downtoners. Language Sciences 24 (3-4) : 359–380.
Rissanen, Matti. 2000. Gender in Grammar and Cognition. I Approaches to Gender. II Manifestations of Gender. (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 124). De Gruyter Mouton.