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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
Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics – de Gruyter
Published: Oct 1, 2022
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