Turo Hiltunen

List of John Benjamins publications for which Turo Hiltunen plays a role.

Titles

Corpus Pragmatic Studies on the History of Medical Discourse

Edited by Turo Hiltunen and Irma Taavitsainen

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 330] 2022. vii, 322 pp.
Subjects Corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics

Late Modern English Medical Texts: Writing medicine in the eighteenth century. Including the LMEMT Corpus

Edited by Irma Taavitsainen and Turo Hiltunen

[Not in series, 221] 2019. xix, 432 pp., incl. CD-RoM
Subjects Discourse studies | English linguistics | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

Articles

While clearly important in decision-making in democratic societies, the authority of science and expertise in public forums is nowadays increasingly challenged by different advocacy groups and crowd-based politics. Using the Hansard Corpus, this chapter explores how experts and expert knowledge… read more
This chapter investigates the expression of stance in eighteenth-century medical English, based on data from the LMEMT corpus. The focus is on three types of stance that-clauses, and the aim of the analysis is to document the frequency trends and patterns of variation in the data, compare them… read more
Hiltunen, Turo and Irma Taavitsainen 2022 Chapter 1. Corpora, pragmatics, and historical medical discourseCorpus Pragmatic Studies on the History of Medical Discourse, Hiltunen, Turo and Irma Taavitsainen (eds.), pp. 1–20 | Chapter
This chapter explores sub-register variation in newspaper writing in the 19th century using two corpora extracted from the British Library Newspapers database, the most comprehensive collection of national and regional newspapers from the Victorian period. As an ‘agile’ (Hundt & Mair 1999)… read more
Hiltunen, Turo and Irma Taavitsainen 2019 Chapter 1. Towards new knowledge: The corpus of Late Modern English Medical TextsLate Modern English Medical Texts: Writing medicine in the eighteenth century, Taavitsainen, Irma and Turo Hiltunen (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Chapter
Late Modern English Medical Texts (LMEMT) is a new corpus representing printed medical writing in the eighteenth century. This chapter describes the structure and the main compilation principles of the corpus. Representativeness is a complex notion in corpus linguistics in general,… read more
Hiltunen, Turo and Jukka Tyrkkö 2019 Chapter 12. Manual to the LMEMT corpusLate Modern English Medical Texts: Writing medicine in the eighteenth century, Taavitsainen, Irma and Turo Hiltunen (eds.), pp. 337–358 | Chapter
Taavitsainen, Irma, Peter Murray Jones and Turo Hiltunen 2019 Chapter 2. Sociohistorical and cultural context of Late Modern English Medical TextsLate Modern English Medical Texts: Writing medicine in the eighteenth century, Taavitsainen, Irma and Turo Hiltunen (eds.), pp. 17–30 | Chapter
The eighteenth century presents as a transition period towards more modern practices in medical history. In this chapter we probe into these developments as reflected in medical writing and provide a sociohistorical overview of the background for the corpus. When compared to the earlier phases of… read more
Wikipedia is widely used by academics and students in higher education, but research on the linguistic characteristics of this genre is scarce (Kuteeva 2016). This paper explores the usefulness of lexical bundles as an analytical tool to describe disciplinary variation within Wikipedia articles,… read more
This paper investigates how an intensifying phraseological pattern involving the adverb so followed by a delayed declarative content clause is used in medical English in the early modern period (1500–1700). So may occur with adjectival, nominal or adverbial heads, and the pattern is used for… read more
Hiltunen, Turo 2010 Category 6: Philosophical TransactionsEarly Modern English Medical Texts: Corpus description and studies, Taavitsainen, Irma and Päivi Pahta (eds.), pp. 127–132 | Article