John Benjamins Publishing

Irma Taavitsainen

orcid.org/0000-0001-9032-5930

is author/editor of the following titles:

Manners, Norms and Transgressions in the History of English: Literary and linguistic approaches

Edited by Andreas H. Jucker and Irma Taavitsainen

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 312] 2020. viii, 298 pp.

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

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.

Historical (socio)pragmatics at present. Special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 18:2 (2017)

Edited by Matylda Włodarczyk and Irma Taavitsainen

[Journal of Historical Pragmatics, 18:2] 2017. v, 180 pp.

Diachronic Corpus Pragmatics

Edited by Irma Taavitsainen, Andreas H. Jucker and Jukka Tuominen

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 243] 2014. viii, 335 pp.

Early Modern English Medical Texts: Corpus description and studies

Edited by Irma Taavitsainen and Päivi Pahta

[Not in series, 160] 2010. xv, 370 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)

Speech Acts in the History of English

Edited by Andreas H. Jucker and Irma Taavitsainen

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 176] 2008. viii, 318 pp.

The Dynamics of Linguistic Variation: Corpus evidence on English past and present

Edited by Terttu Nevalainen, Irma Taavitsainen, Päivi Pahta and Minna Korhonen

[Studies in Language Variation, 2] 2008. viii, 339 pp.

Middle English Medical Texts

Compiled by Irma Taavitsainen, Päivi Pahta and Martti Mäkinen

[Not in series, 131] 2005. CD-ROM

Diachronic Perspectives on Address Term Systems

Edited by Irma Taavitsainen and Andreas H. Jucker

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 107] 2003. vii, 441 pp.

Writing in Nonstandard English

Edited by Irma Taavitsainen, Gunnel Melchers and Päivi Pahta

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 67] 2000. viii, 404 pp.

is editor/board member of the following journals:

Journal of Historical Pragmatics (JHP)

is author of the following articles:

Taavitsainen, Irma. 2020. “A medical debate of “heated pamphleteering” in the early eighteenth century”. In Manners, Norms and Transgressions in the History of English: Literary and linguistic approaches, 142–163

Taavitsainen, Irma. 2020. “Chapter 6. Interjections in early popular literature”. In Voices Past and Present - Studies of Involved, Speech-related and Spoken Texts: In honor of Merja Kytö, 80–93

Taavitsainen, Irma and Andreas H. Jucker. 2020. “Manners, norms and transgressions”. In Manners, Norms and Transgressions in the History of English: Literary and linguistic approaches, 2–23

Hiltunen, Turo and Irma Taavitsainen. 2019. “Chapter 1. Towards new knowledge”. In Late Modern English Medical Texts: Writing medicine in the eighteenth century, 1–16

Lehto, Anu and Irma Taavitsainen. 2019. “Chapter 5. Medical case reports in Late Modern English”. In Late Modern English Medical Texts: Writing medicine in the eighteenth century, 89–111

Lehto, Anu and Irma Taavitsainen. 2019. “11.2b. Methods”. In Late Modern English Medical Texts: Writing medicine in the eighteenth century, 251–260

Lehto, Anu and Irma Taavitsainen. 2019. “11.3. Medical recipe collections”. In Late Modern English Medical Texts: Writing medicine in the eighteenth century, 279–288

Suhr, Carla and Irma Taavitsainen. 2019. “11.2c. Therapeutic substances”. In Late Modern English Medical Texts: Writing medicine in the eighteenth century, 261–270

Taavitsainen, Irma. 2019. “Chapter 7. Polite society language practices”. In Late Modern English Medical Texts: Writing medicine in the eighteenth century, 129–144

Taavitsainen, Irma. 2019. “Chapter 9. Professional and lay medical texts in the eighteenth century”. In Late Modern English Medical Texts: Writing medicine in the eighteenth century, 173–197

Taavitsainen, Irma. 2019. “11.1. General treatises and textbooks”. In Late Modern English Medical Texts: Writing medicine in the eighteenth century, 231–238

Taavitsainen, Irma. 2019. “11.8. General periodical”. In Late Modern English Medical Texts: Writing medicine in the eighteenth century, 327–336

Taavitsainen, Irma, Gerold Schneider and Peter Murray Jones. 2019. “Chapter 3. Topics of eighteenth-century medical writing with triangulation of methods”. In Late Modern English Medical Texts: Writing medicine in the eighteenth century, 31–74

Taavitsainen, Irma, Peter Murray Jones and Turo Hiltunen. 2019. “Chapter 2. Sociohistorical and cultural context of Late Modern English Medical Texts ”. In Late Modern English Medical Texts: Writing medicine in the eighteenth century, 17–30

Taavitsainen, Irma. 2017. “Meaning-making practices in the history of medical English”. In Historical (socio)pragmatics at present, 252–270

Taavitsainen, Irma. 2018. “Scholastic genre scripts in English medical writing 1375–1800”. In Diachronic Corpora, Genre, and Language Change, 95–115

Włodarczyk, Matylda and Irma Taavitsainen. 2017. “Introduction”. In Historical (socio)pragmatics at present, 159–174

Ratia, Maura, Minna Palander-Collin and Irma Taavitsainen. 2017. “Chapter 1. English news discourse from newsbooks to new media”. In Diachronic Developments in English News Discourse, 3–12

Sklar, Howard and Irma Taavitsainen. 2017. “Chapter 5. A modest proposal in The Gentleman’s Magazine ”. In Diachronic Developments in English News Discourse, 81–96

Taavitsainen, Irma. 2015. “Medical news in England 1665–1800 in journals for professional and lay audiences”. In Changing Genre Conventions in Historical English News Discourse, 135–160

Taavitsainen, Irma and Andreas H. Jucker. 2015. “Twenty years of historical pragmatics”. Journal of Historical Pragmatics 16:1, 1–24

Jucker, Andreas H. and Irma Taavitsainen. 2014. “Diachronic corpus pragmatics”. In Diachronic Corpus Pragmatics, 3–26

Jucker, Andreas H. and Irma Taavitsainen. 2014. “Complimenting in the history of American English”. In Diachronic Corpus Pragmatics, 257–276

Taavitsainen, Irma and Turo Hiltunen. 2012. “ Now as a text deictic feature in Late Medieval and Early Modern English medical writing”. In Investigations into the Meta-Communicative Lexicon of English: A contribution to historical pragmatics, 179–206

Pahta, Päivi and Irma Taavitsainen. 2010. “Introducing Early Modern English Medical Texts ”. In Early Modern English Medical Texts: Corpus description and studies, 1–8

Taavitsainen, Irma. 2010. “Expanding the borders of knowledge”. In Early Modern English Medical Texts: Corpus description and studies, 11–12

Taavitsainen, Irma. 2010. “Discourse and genre dynamics in early modern english medical writing”. In Early Modern English Medical Texts: Corpus description and studies, 29–54

Taavitsainen, Irma and Carla Suhr. 2010. “Appendix”. In Early Modern English Medical Texts: Corpus description and studies, 133–146

Taavitsainen, Irma and Jukka Tyrkkö. 2010. “Category 1”. In Early Modern English Medical Texts: Corpus description and studies, 65–72

Taavitsainen, Irma and Jukka Tyrkkö. 2010. “The field of medical writing with fuzzy edges”. In Early Modern English Medical Texts: Corpus description and studies, 57–62

Taavitsainen, Irma. 2009. ““Joyful News out of the Newfound World””. In Early Modern English News Discourse: Newspapers, pamphlets and scientific news discourse, 189–204

Taavitsainen, Irma. 2009. “Authority and instruction in two sixteenth-century medical dialogues”. In Instructional Writing in English: Studies in honour of Risto Hiltunen, 105–124

Jucker, Andreas H. and Irma Taavitsainen. 2008. “Apologies in the history of English: Routinized and lexicalized expressions of responsibility and regret”. In Speech Acts in the History of English, 229–244

Jucker, Andreas H., Gerold Schneider, Irma Taavitsainen and Barb Breustedt. 2008. “Fishing for compliments: Precision and recall in corpus-linguistic compliment research”. In Speech Acts in the History of English, 273–294

Nevalainen, Terttu, Irma Taavitsainen and Päivi Pahta. 2008. “Exploring the dynamics of linguistic variation through public and private corpora”. In The Dynamics of Linguistic Variation: Corpus evidence on English past and present, 1–9

Taavitsainen, Irma and Andreas H. Jucker. 2008. “Speech acts now and then: Towards a pragmatic history of English”. In Speech Acts in the History of English, 1–23

Taavitsainen, Irma and Andreas H. Jucker. 2008. “"Methinks you seem more beautiful than ever": Compliments and gender in the history of English”. In Speech Acts in the History of English, 195–228

Taavitsainen, Irma. 2005. “Genres and the appropriation of science”. In Opening Windows on Texts and Discourses of the Past, 179–196

Jucker, Andreas H. and Irma Taavitsainen. 2003. “1. Diachronic perspectives on address term systems”. In Diachronic Perspectives on Address Term Systems, 1–25

Taavitsainen, Irma. 2002. “Historical discourse analysis”. In Sounds, Words, Texts and Change: Selected papers from 11 ICEHL, Santiago de Compostela, 7–11 September 2000, 201–226

Taavitsainen, Irma. 2001. “Middle English recipes”. Journal of Historical Pragmatics 2:1, 85–113

Jucker, Andreas H. and Irma Taavitsainen. 2000. “Editorial”. Journal of Historical Pragmatics 1:1, v–vi

Jucker, Andreas H. and Irma Taavitsainen. 2000. “Diachronic speech act analysis”. Journal of Historical Pragmatics 1:1, 67–95

Taavitsainen, Irma and Gunnel Melchers. 2000. “Preface”. In Writing in Nonstandard English, vii

Taavitsainen, Irma and Saara Nevanlinna. 2000. “Nonstandard Language in Early Varieties of English”. In Writing in Nonstandard English, 123

Taavitsainen, Irma. 1999. “Dialogues in Late Medieval and Early Modern English Medical Writing”. In Historical Dialogue Analysis, 243

Taavitsainen, Irma. 1995. “Interjections in Early Modern English”. In Historical Pragmatics: Pragmatic developments in the history of English, 439

Taavitsainen, Irma. 1994. “On the revolution of scientific writings from 1375 to 1675”. In English Historical Linguistics 1992: Papers from the 7th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Valencia, 22–26 September 1992, 329