234 research outputs found
Terttu Nevalainen. An Introduction to Early Modern English
No full textThis article provides us with a book review of An introduction to early modern english by Terttu Nevalainen
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Get PDFThe recently published volume Keywords for Today is a collaborative work which examines the most important words in contemporary culture by exploring their histories and uses across different periods and discourses. It carries on and updates the work of Raymond Williams’s Keywords, paying attention to the changing political landscape and using modern resources. In this special issue of Critical Quarterly, scholars including linguists, historians, philosophers, and literary scholars react to this important work from different perspectives. Terttu Nevalainen considers the relationship between history and social theory, comparing Peter Burke’s list of eighteen central concepts with the wordlists of Williams’s Keywords and Keywords for Today; she focuses particularly on the multiple meanings and uses of power.Peer reviewe
The interaction between syntax, information structure, and prosody in word order change.
Get PDFThe primary concern of this chapter is to explore the role of information structure, syntax and prosody in explaining word order variation and change in the history of English. An important feature of this approach is that it embeds changes in English in a wider picture of parallel or diverging development in Germanic. Given that Old English and Old High German show similar word order variations, but later diverge in different directions, the major word order changes in English, namely the loss of OV-orders and the loss of V2 in (non-negative) declarative clauses will be compared to and contrasted with the generalization of V2 and the loss of VO-orders in the history of German
Tervetullut intonaation kokonaisesitys
Get PDFKirja-arvioIivonen, Antti & Nevalainen, Terttu & Aulanko, Reijo & Kaskinen, Hannu: Puheen intonaati
Corpus linguistics as digital scholarship : Big data, rich data and uncharted data
Get PDFThis introductory chapter begins by considering how the fields of corpus linguistics, digital linguistics and digital humanities overlap, intertwine and feed off each other when it comes to making use of the increasing variety of resources available for linguistic research today. We then move on to discuss the benefits and challenges of three partly overlapping approaches to the use of digital data sources: (1) increasing data size to create “big data”, (2) supplying multi-faceted co(n)textual information and analyses to produce “rich data”, and (3) adapting existing data sets to new uses by drawing on hitherto “uncharted data”. All of them also call for new digital tools and methodologies that, in Tim Hitchcock’s words, “allow us to think small; at the same time as we are generating tools to imagine big.” We conclude the chapter by briefly describing how the contributions in this volume make use of their various data sources to answer new research questions about language use and to revisit old questions in new ways.Peer reviewe
Investigating the development of ESP through historical corpora: the case of Archaeology articles written in English during the Late Modern period (and beyond?)
No full textA number of recent linguistic contributions focus on the study of English for Specific Purposes (ESP), a discipline that studies the use of English for communicating specific and specialized knowledge in the global context. However, as specialised terms often enter the general lexicon as well, diachronic linguistic inquiry is essential to study the development of ESP as also the evolution of general English.
Specific terms become, then, part of the general public’s linguistic repertoire, contributing to the spread of ‘scientific’ lexis and to the popularisation of specialized knowledge. One example of a discipline that awaits further linguistic investigation is archaeology, a field that is becoming increasingly popular among the general public both due to the desire to rediscover our ancient past and also thanks to the spread of popularised publications, journals, television programmes and movies (Clack & Brittain 2007). The investigation of a historical corpus of archaeology texts and essays is therefore important for studying the evolution of the discipline’s specific discourse in English and how the language of archaeology in English has evolved to become a distinct branch of ESP.
A previous contribution (Cesiri forthcoming) considers the linguistic features of present-day cultural heritage research articles (of which archaeology constitutes an important part). In continuation of this study, my article will seek to investigate the linguistic features characterising publications in English on archaeology. I will consider in particular the beginning of the discipline, that is to say the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, which are the core centuries in the development of scientific techniques in archaeology and it gaining a proper academic status. The study will use a corpus of archaeology texts and the corpus analysis software Wordsmith Tools 5.0 (Scott 2008). Finally, the results from this study will be compared with those from Cesiri (forthcoming): this will be essential in the investigation of disciplinary and linguistic evolution in the field of archaeology as a distinct type of ESP
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