Studies in Variation, Contacts and Change in English
Volume 11

Developing Corpus Methodology for Historical Pragmatics

Edited by Carla Suhr & Irma Taavitsainen
Research Unit for Variation, Contacts and Change in English (VARIENG), University of Helsinki

Publication date: 2012

Table of contents

Suhr, Carla & Irma Taavitsainen
Preface
http://www.helsinki.fi/varieng/journal/volumes/11/preface.html

Taavitsainen, Irma & Carla Suhr
Developing historical corpus pragmatics towards multimodality
http://www.helsinki.fi/varieng/journal/volumes/11/taavitsainen_suhr.html

Jucker, Andreas H., Irma Taavitsainen & Gerold Schneider
Semantic corpus trawling: Expressions of “courtesy” and “politeness” in the Helsinki Corpus
http://www.helsinki.fi/varieng/series/volumes/11/jucker_taavitsainen_schneider/ (see abstract)

Claridge, Claudia
Of fox-sized mice and a thousand men: Hyperbole in Old English
http://www.helsinki.fi/varieng/journal/volumes/11/claridge/ (see abstract)

Williams, Graham
Searching for verbal irony in historical corpora: a pilot study of mock and scorn in the Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse
http://www.helsinki.fi/varieng/journal/volumes/11/williams/ (see abstract)

Busse, Beatrix and Ulrich Busse
Methodological suggestions for investigating Shakespearean discourse markers in old texts of Shakespeare’s plays
http://www.helsinki.fi/varieng/journal/volumes/11/busse_busse/ (see abstract)

Kozlowski, Jacek
Variation and emotional affect: the case of quiten and aquiten
http://www.helsinki.fi/varieng/journal/volumes/11/kozlowski/ (see abstract)

Mazzon, Gabriella
I’m afraid I’ll have to stop now… Your time is up, I’m afraid. Corpus studies and the development of attitudinal markers
http://www.helsinki.fi/varieng/journal/volumes/11/mazzon/ (see abstract)

Oinonen, Raisa
Yours to command: Politeness and an Early Modern English subscription formula
http://www.helsinki.fi/varieng/journal/volumes/11/oinonen/ (see abstract)

Kohnen, Thomas
A toolkit for constructing corpus networks
http://www.helsinki.fi/varieng/journal/volumes/11/kohnen/ (see abstract)

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