Evans, Mel: Royal Voices: Language and Power in Tudor England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. [Book review]

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Linguistic contexts of social change : Tracing the decline of the master-servant institution in three corpora

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Linguistic contexts of social change : Tracing the decline of the master-servant institution in three corpora

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Korpusaineistot

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From incipient to mid-range and beyond

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The future of historical sociolinguistics?

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Mantila, Harri & Saviniemi, Maija & Kunnas, Niina (eds.). 2019. Oulu kieliyhteisönä [Oulu as a language community]

Book review: Reviewed book: Mantila, Harri & Saviniemi, Maija & Kunnas, Niina (eds.). 2019. Oulu kieliyhteisönä [Oulu as a language community]. (Tietolipas 261). Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura. 329 p.Non peer reviewe

Person reference and democratization in British English

This article explores the interrelatedness of societal changes and changes in language practices. By using a combination of corpus linguistic and socio-pragmatic methods, we track diachronic changes in word patterns and interpret findings in the framework of democratization. The data comes from a small and representative corpus of British English (ARCHER-3.1) and from three "big data" sets (Google Books, British Library Newspapers and The Economist). We suggest that data triangulation, including sociohistorical contextualization, allows us to conclude that especially from the mid-nineteenth century onwards words signaling social status and referring to individuals have decreased and from the first decades of the twentieth century onwards words referring to collectivities of people have increased. (C) 2020 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.Peer reviewe

Constructing the defendant role in the trial proceedings of the Old Bailey: Guilty or not guilty

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