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Irma Taavitsainen

Irma Taavitsainen

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
41
Citations
5037
World Ranking
5147
National Ranking
48

Overview

Irma Taavitsainen is affiliated with the University of Helsinki in Finland. Their research primarily spans the fields of Arts and Humanities as well as Social Sciences, with significant focus on subfields such as Language and Linguistics, Communication, History, Anthropology, and Linguistics and Language.

Their work engages with topics including Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism; Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies; History of Medicine Studies; Historical and Literary Studies; Lexicography and Language Studies; Linguistic research and analysis; and linguistics and terminology studies.

Taavitsainen has published extensively, with key papers including:

  • Contrastive Pragmatics in a Diachronic Perspective: Insights from Othello, 2021, Contrastive Pragmatics
  • Medical book reviews 1665-1800, 2021, Journal of Historical Pragmatics
  • CONTINUITY AND CHANGE IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY MEDICAL WRITING IN ENGLISH, 2021, Istituto Lombardo - Accademia di Scienze e Lettere - Incontri di Studio
  • Index, 2022, Cambridge University Press eBooks
  • Introduction, 2021, Journal of Historical Pragmatics

Frequent publication venues for Taavitsainen's work include:

  • Journal of Historical Pragmatics
  • Contrastive Pragmatics
  • Istituto Lombardo - Accademia di Scienze e Lettere - Incontri di Studio
  • Cambridge University Press eBooks
  • Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses

In addition to journal articles and chapters, Taavitsainen has contributed to book publications. One notable publication is titled Multilingualism and Language Variation in English across Genres and Registers, published in 2024 by Mémoires de la Société néophilologique de Helsinki.

Collaborations have been an integral part of their research, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Turo Hiltunen
  • Andreas H. Jucker
  • Carla Suhr
  • Jeremy J. Smith
  • Alpo Honkapohja

Taavitsainen's profile reflects a multidisciplinary approach combining historical pragmatics, linguistic variation, and medical history. Their research exhibits a sustained engagement with language as a dynamic social and historical phenomenon.

Best Publications

  • Diachronic speech act analysis: Insults from flyting to flaming

    Andreas H. Jucker;Irma Taavitsainen

  • English in Finland: globalisation, language awareness and questions of identity

    Irma Taavitsainen;Päivi Pahta

  • English Historical Pragmatics

    Andreas H. Jucker;Irma Taavitsainen

  • Speech acts in the history of english

    Andreas H. Jucker;Irma Taavitsainen

  • History of Englishes: New Methods and Interpretations in Historical Linguistics

    Matti Rissanen;Ossi Ihalainen;Terttu Nevalainen;Irma Taavitsainen

  • Medical and Scientific Writing in Late Medieval English

    Irma Taavitsainen;Päivi I Pahta

  • Changing Conventions of Writing: The Dynamics of Genres, Text Types, and Text Traditions

    Irma Taavitsainen

  • Middle English recipes: Genre characteristics, text type features and underlying traditions of writing

    Irma Taavitsainen

  • Historical pragmatics: What it is and how to do it

    Irma Taavitsainen;Susan Fitzmaurice

  • Conventions of professional writing : The medical case report in a historical perspective

    Irma Taavitsainen;Päivi Pahta

  • Vernacularisation of scientific and medical writing in its sociohistorical context

    Irma Taavitsainen;Päivi Pahta

  • Speech act verbs and speech acts in the history of English

    Irma Taavitsainen;Andreas H. Jucker

  • Writing in nonstandard English

    Irma Taavitsainen;Gunnel Melchers;Paivi Pahta

  • Early modern English medical texts : corpus description and studies

    Irma Taavitsainen;Päivi Pahta

  • Diachronic Perspectives on Address Term Systems

    Irma Taavitsainen;Andreas H. Jucker

  • Vernacularisation of medical writing in English: a corpus-based study of scholasticism.

    Irma Taavitsainen;Päivi Pahta

  • Medical Writing in Early Modern English

    Irma Taavitsainen;Päivi Pahta

  • Interjections in Early Modern English: From Imitation of Spoken to Conventions of Written Language

    Irma Taavitsainen

  • Methods in historical pragmatics

    Susan M. Fitzmaurice;Irma Taavitsainen

  • Middle English medical texts

    Irma Taavitsainen;Paivi Pahta;Martti Mäkinen;Raymond Hickey

  • Speech acts now and then: Towards a pragmatic history of English

    Irma Taavitsainen;Andreas H Jucker

  • Fishing for compliments: Precision and recall in corpus-linguistic compliment research

    Andreas H Jucker;Gerold Schneider;Irma Taavitsainen;Barb Breustedt

  • "Methinks you seem more beautiful than ever": Compliments and gender in the history of English.

    Irma Taavitsainen;Andreas H. Jucker

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