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Ewa Jonsson and Tove Larsson: Voices past and present – Studies of involved, speech-related and spoken texts. In honor of Merja Kytö. (Studies in Corpus Linguistics 97)

Ewa Jonsson and Tove Larsson: Voices past and present – Studies of involved, speech-related and... The Festschrift is a difficult genre, but the volume of studies to honour the work of Merja Kytö manages to be coherent in its theme. From the foreword by long-time collaborator Jonathan Culpeper, giving an overview of the development of the field(s) Kytö has been so instrumental in developing, to the select list of publications by Kytö closing the volume, the recipient of the Festschrift is evident. Through all chapters, reference is made to Kytö’s work in relevant ways, discussing corpus approaches to involved, speech-related and spoken texts from the Early Modern, Late Modern and Present-day English periods. All authors make careful and extensive use of various electronic sources and tools, showing a link to Kytö’s ground-breaking work in corpus-based historical linguistics. The introduction by the editors shows the tight focus of the volume, as is common in present-day Festschrift volumes. Combining the past and the present in one volume is a way of seeing more clearly what the features of spoken, involved language are, and this creates new avenues for exploring the historical stages of language. In fact, if there is one flaw in the volume as a whole, it is the structuring according to diachrony. There are several papers approaching similar topics in http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics de Gruyter

Ewa Jonsson and Tove Larsson: Voices past and present – Studies of involved, speech-related and spoken texts. In honor of Merja Kytö. (Studies in Corpus Linguistics 97)

Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics , Volume 8 (2): 5 – Oct 1, 2022

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de Gruyter
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© 2022 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston
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2199-2894
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2199-2908
DOI
10.1515/jhsl-2021-0011
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Abstract

The Festschrift is a difficult genre, but the volume of studies to honour the work of Merja Kytö manages to be coherent in its theme. From the foreword by long-time collaborator Jonathan Culpeper, giving an overview of the development of the field(s) Kytö has been so instrumental in developing, to the select list of publications by Kytö closing the volume, the recipient of the Festschrift is evident. Through all chapters, reference is made to Kytö’s work in relevant ways, discussing corpus approaches to involved, speech-related and spoken texts from the Early Modern, Late Modern and Present-day English periods. All authors make careful and extensive use of various electronic sources and tools, showing a link to Kytö’s ground-breaking work in corpus-based historical linguistics. The introduction by the editors shows the tight focus of the volume, as is common in present-day Festschrift volumes. Combining the past and the present in one volume is a way of seeing more clearly what the features of spoken, involved language are, and this creates new avenues for exploring the historical stages of language. In fact, if there is one flaw in the volume as a whole, it is the structuring according to diachrony. There are several papers approaching similar topics in

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Journal of Historical Sociolinguisticsde Gruyter

Published: Oct 1, 2022

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