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  • 1.
    Andersson, Bo
    et al.
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of Modern Languages, German.
    Kytö, Merja
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    Introduction: Exploring the Multifaceted Faces of Punctuation2018In: Studia Neophilologica, ISSN 0039-3274, E-ISSN 1651-2308, Vol. 90, no Suppl. 1, p. 1-4Article in journal (Other academic)
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  • 2.
    Archer, Dawn
    et al.
    Manchester Metropolitan University.
    Kytö, Merja
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    Baron, Alistair
    Lancaster University.
    Rayson, Paul
    Lancaster University.
    Guidelines for normalising Early Modern English corpora: Decisions and justifications2015In: ICAME Journal, ISSN 1502-5462, Vol. 39, p. 5-24Article in journal (Refereed)
  • 3. Archer, Dawn
    et al.
    Kytö, Merja
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    Baron, Alistair
    Rayson, Paul
    Normalising the Corpus of English Dialogues (1560–1760) using VARD2: Decisions and Justifications2014Conference paper (Refereed)
  • 4.
    Claridge, Claudia
    et al.
    University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany.
    Jonsson, Ewa
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    Kytö, Merja
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    A Little Something Goes a Long Way: Little in the Old Bailey Corpus2021In: Journal of English Linguistics, ISSN 0075-4242, E-ISSN 1552-5457, Vol. 49, no 1, p. 61-89Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    Even though intensifiers have received a good deal of attention over the past few decades, downtoners, comprising diminishers and minimizers, have remained by and large a neglected category (but cf. Brinton, this issue). Among downtoners, the adverb little or a little stands out as the most frequent item. It is multifunctional and serves as a diminishing and minimizing intensifier and also in non-degree uses as a quantifier, frequentative, and durative. Therefore, the present paper is devoted to the structural and functional profile of (a) little in Late Modern English speech-related data. The data source is the socio-pragmatically annotated Old Bailey Corpus (OBC, version 2.0), which allows, among other things, the investigation of the usage of the item among different speaker groups. Our research charts the semantic and formal uses of adverbial little. Downtoner uses outnumber non-degree uses in the data, and diminishing uses are more common than minimizing uses. The formal realization is predominantly a little, with very rare determinerless or modified instances, such as very little. Little modifies a wide range of “targets,” but most frequently adjectives and prepositional phrases, focusing on human states and circumstantial detail. With regard to variation and change, adverbial little declines in use over the 200 years and is used more commonly by speakers from the lower social ranks and by the lay, non-professional participants in the courtroom.

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  • 5.
    Claridge, Claudia
    et al.
    Philologisch-Historische Fakultät, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany.
    Jonsson, Ewa
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    Kytö, Merja
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    Entirely innocent: A historical sociopragmatic analysis of maximizers in the Old Bailey Corpus2020In: English Language and Linguistics, ISSN 1360-6743, E-ISSN 1469-4379, Vol. 24, no 4, p. 855-874Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    Based on an investigation of the Old Bailey Corpus, this article explores the development and usage patterns of maximizers in Late Modern English (LModE). The maximizers to be considered for inclusion in the study are based on the lists provided in Quirk et al. (1985) and Huddleston & Pullum (2002). The aims of the study were to (i) document the frequency development of maximizers, (ii) investigate the sociolinguistic embedding of maximizers usage (gender, class) and (iii) analyze the sociopragmatics of maximizers based on the speakers’ roles, such as judge or witness, in the courtroom.

    Of the eleven maximizer types focused on in the investigation, perfectly and entirely were found to dominate in frequency. The whole group was found to rise over the period 1720 to 1913. In terms of gender, social class and speaker roles, there was variation in the use of maximizers across the different speaker groups. Prominently, defendants, but also judges and lawyers, maximized more than witnesses and victims; further, male speakers and higher-ranking speakers used more maximizers. The results were interpreted taking into account the courtroom context and its dialogue dynamics.

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  • 6. Claridge, Claudia
    et al.
    Jonsson, Ewa
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    Kytö, Merja
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    “Methinks you are mighty funny, Gentlemen”: The socio-pragmatics of boosters in the late modern courtroom2016Conference paper (Refereed)
  • 7. Claridge, Claudia
    et al.
    Jonsson, Ewa
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    Kytö, Merja
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    The socio-pragmatics of intensifiers: Evidence from the Old Bailey Corpus2022Conference paper (Refereed)
  • 8. Claridge, Claudia
    et al.
    Kytö, Merja
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    'A (great) deal of': Developments in 19th-century British and Australian English2019In: Processes of Change: Studies in Late Modern and Present-Day English / [ed] Sandra Jansen and Lucia Siebers, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company , 2019, p. 49-71Chapter in book (Refereed)
  • 9.
    Claridge, Claudia
    et al.
    Univ Augsburg, English Linguist, Augsburg, Germany..
    Kytö, Merja
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    Degree and Related Phenomena in the History of English: Evidence of Usage and Pathways of Change2021In: Journal of English Linguistics, ISSN 0075-4242, E-ISSN 1552-5457, Vol. 49, no 1, p. 3-17Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    This introductory paper sets the scene for the present double special issue on degree phenomena. Besides introducing the individual contributions, it positions degree in the overlapping fields of intensity, focus and emphasis. It outlines the wide-ranging means of expressing degree, their possible categorizations, as well as the many-fold uses of intensification with respect to involvement, politeness, evaluation, emotive expression and persuasion. It also decribes the many angles from which degree features have been studied as extending across, e.g., (historical) sociolinguistics, (historical) pragmatics, and grammaticalization.

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  • 10. Claridge, Claudia
    et al.
    Kytö, Merja
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    I had lost sight of them then for a bit, but I went on pretty fast: Two degree modifiers in the Old Bailey Corpus2014In: Diachronic Corpus Pragmatics / [ed] Irma Taavitsainen, Andreas H. Jucker and Jukka Tuominen, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins , 2014, p. 29-52Chapter in book (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    This article investigates the degree modifiers pretty and a bit in the subsection 1730s–1830s of the Old Bailey Corpus (OBC), containing speech-based/related data (ca. 50 million words). Pretty is shown to be already grammaticalized, with the degree modifier uses clearly dominating. Subjectification is evidenced both by the downtoning and upgrading degree meanings as well as by the ironic uses. While a bit is also semantically versatile and shows nuances of subjectification, it is far less grammaticalized than pretty, as the degree uses are in the clear minority. The change seems to be led by a bit of (a)-constructions rather than by simple a bit.

  • 11.
    Claridge, Claudia
    et al.
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English. University of Augsburg.
    Kytö, Merja
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    Intensifiers on their way out: 'full', 'right' and 'real' in the Old Bailey Corpus2015Conference paper (Other academic)
  • 12. Claridge, Claudia
    et al.
    Kytö, Merja
    Introduction: Multiple Functions and Contexts of Punctuation2019In: Punctuation in Context -- Past and Present Perspectives / [ed] Claudia Claridge and Merja Kytö, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford: Peter Lang , 2019, p. 9-20Chapter in book (Refereed)
  • 13. Claridge, Claudia
    et al.
    Kytö, Merja
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    Non-standard language in earlier English2010In: Varieties of English in Writing: The Written Word as Linguistic Evidence / [ed] Raymond Hickey, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins , 2010, p. 15-41Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 14. Claridge, Claudia
    et al.
    Kytö, Merja
    Punctuation in Context -- Past and Present Perspectives2019Collection (editor) (Refereed)
  • 15.
    Claridge, Claudia
    et al.
    University of Augsburg.
    Kytö, Merja
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English. University of Augsburg.
    The Changing Fortunes of a great deal : Distributions in Grammar, Time, and Place2013Conference paper (Refereed)
  • 16. Claridge, Claudia
    et al.
    Kytö, Merja
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    "You are a bit of a sneak": Exploring a degree modifier in the Old Bailey Corpus2014In: Late Modern English Syntax / [ed] Marianne Hundt, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014, p. 239-268Chapter in book (Refereed)
  • 17.
    Claridge, Claudia
    et al.
    University of Augsburg.
    Kytö, Merja
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    "‘You are a bit of a sneak’: Exploring a Degree Modifier in the Old Bailey Corpus2014In: Late Modern English Syntax / [ed] Marianne Hundt, 2014, p. 239-268Conference paper (Refereed)
  • 18.
    Culpeper, Jonathan
    et al.
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English. University of Lancaster.
    Kytö, Merja
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    Data in Historical Pragmatics: Spoken Interaction (Re)cast as Writing2000In: Journal of Historical Pragmatics, ISSN 1566-5852, Vol. 1, no 2, p. 175-199Article in journal (Refereed)
  • 19.
    Culpeper, Jonathan
    et al.
    Lancaster University.
    Kytö, Merja
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    Early Modern English Dialogues: spoken interaction as writing2010Book (Refereed)
  • 20.
    Culpeper, Jonathan
    et al.
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    Kytö, Merja
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    Gender Voices in the Spoken Interaction of the Past: A Pilot Study Based on Early Modern English Trial Proceedings2000In: The History of English in a Social Context: a contribution to historical sociolinguistics / [ed] Dieter Kastovsky, Arthur Mettinger, Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter , 2000, p. 53-89Conference paper (Refereed)
  • 21.
    Culpeper, Jonathan
    et al.
    University of Lancaster.
    Kytö, Merja
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    "Good, good indeed, the best that ere I heard": Exploring Lexical Repetitions in the Corpus of English Dialogues 1560-17602006In: Dialogic Language Use/Dimensions du dialogisme/Dialogischer Sprachgebrauch / [ed] Irma Taavitsainen, Juhani Härmä & Jarmo Korhonen ; editorial secretary Marja Ursin, Société Néophilologique, Helsinki , 2006, p. 69-85Chapter in book (Refereed)
  • 22.
    Culpeper, Jonathan
    et al.
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English. University of Lancaster.
    Kytö, Merja
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    Investigating Nonstandard Language in a Corpus of Early Modern English Dialogues: Methodological Considerations and Problems1999In: Writing in nonstandard English, John Benjamins; Amsterdam/Philadelphia , 1999, p. 1731-185Chapter in book (Refereed)
  • 23.
    Culpeper, Jonathan
    et al.
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English. University of Lancaster.
    Kytö, Merja
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    Lexical Bundles in Early Modern English Dialogues: A Window into the Speech-related Language of the Past2002In: Sounds, words, texts and change: selected papers from 11 ICEHL, Santiago de Compostela, 7-11 September 2000 / [ed] Teresa Fanego,Belén Méndez-Naya,Elena Seoane, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins , 2002, p. 45-63Conference paper (Refereed)
  • 24.
    Culpeper, Jonathan
    et al.
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English. University of Lancaster.
    Kytö, Merja
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    Modifying Pragmatic Force: Hedges in Early Modern English Dialogues1999In: Historical dialogue analysis / [ed] Andreas H. Jucker, Gerd Fritz, Franz Lebsanft, John Benjamins. Amsterdam and Philadelphia. , 1999, p. 293-312Chapter in book (Refereed)
  • 25.
    Culpeper, Jonathan
    et al.
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English. University of Lancaster.
    Kytö, Merja
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    The Conjunction 'And' in Early Modern English: Frequencies and Uses in Speech-related Writing and Other Texts2000In: Generative Theory and Corpus Studies. A Dialogue from 10 ICHEL / [ed] Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero, Mouton de Gruyter; Berlin, New York , 2000, p. 299-326Conference paper (Refereed)
  • 26.
    Culpeper, Jonathan
    et al.
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English. University of Lancaster.
    Kytö, Merja
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    Towards a Corpus of Dialogues, 1550-17501997In: Language in time and space: studies in honour of Wolfgang Viereck on the occasion of his 60th birthday / [ed] Heinrich Ramisch and Kenneth Wynne, Franz Steiner. Stuttgart. , 1997, Vol. 97, p. 60-73Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 27. Danchev, Andrei
    et al.
    Kytö, Merja
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    The GO-Futures in English and French Viewed as an Areal Feature2002In: NOWELE, ISSN 0108-8416, E-ISSN 2212-9715, Vol. 40, no April 2002, p. 29-60Article in journal (Refereed)
  • 28. Danchev, Andrei
    et al.
    Kytö, Merja
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    The Middle English "'for to' + infinitive" Construction: A Two-fold Contact Phenomenon?2001In: Language contact in the history of English / [ed] Dieter Kastovsky /Arthur Mettinger, Peter Lang; Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien , 2001, p. 35-55Chapter in book (Refereed)
  • 29.
    Grund, Peter
    et al.
    University of Kansas.
    Hiltunen, Risto
    University of Turku.
    Kahlas-Tarkka, Leena
    University of Helsinki.
    Kytö, Merja
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    Peikola, Matti
    University of Turku.
    Rissanen, Matti
    University of Helsinki.
    Linguistic Introduction2009In: Records of the Salem Witch-Hunt / [ed] Bernard Rosenthal, Gretchen A. Adams, Margo Burns, Peter Grund, Risto Hiltunen, Leena Kahlas-Tarkka, Merja Kytö, Matti Peikola, Benjamin C. Ray, Matti Rissanen & Marilynne K. Roach, Cambridge, New York, Melbourne etc.: Cambridge University Press , 2009, p. 64--94Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 30.
    Grund, Peter
    et al.
    University of Kansas.
    Kytö, Merja
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    Rissanen, Matti
    University of Helsinki.
    Editing the Salem Witchcraft Records: An Exploration of a Linguistic Treasury2004In: American Speech, ISSN 0003-1283, Vol. 79, no 2, p. 146-166Article in journal (Refereed)
  • 31.
    Gustafson Capková, Sofia
    et al.
    Stockholms universitet.
    Anglemark, Linnéa
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    Kytö, Merja
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    Melander Marttala, Ulla
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of Scandinavian Languages.
    Thelander, Mats
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of Scandinavian Languages.
    English and Swedish Drama dialogue/Engelsk och Svensk DramaDialog 1725-1950. ESDD2016Report (Other academic)
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  • 32.
    Hoffman, Angela
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    The Linguistic Landscapes of Swedish Heritage Cookbooks in the American Midwest, 1895-20052017In: Studia Neophilologica, ISSN 0039-3274, E-ISSN 1651-2308, Vol. 89, no 2, p. 261-286Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    Recipe names and other elements in the discourse of cookbooks reveal important clues about language contact in communities settled by immigrants. In the case of cookbooks printed in Swedish-American networks, a number of recipe collections have been periodically updated and re-published. Linguists who tap into this printed material can thus carry out longitudinal discourse analysis of the names of recipes and of menu items to be served on a smorgasbord. The present study examines cookbooks produced in selected localities and reports on linguistic patterns found in the cookbooks published in two small towns in central Kansas as well as in the urban centers of Kansas City and Chicago. The data are analyzed for evidence that Swedish, Heritage Swedish, and English have co-existed in varying proportions across the time period of study, which is 1895 to 2005, and across geographical space in the American Midwest. Looking at the phenomena of heritage as expressed linguistically, and to some extent to be understood notionally in the cookbook data, we describe the linguistic landscapes which have shaped the discourse of Swedish-American homes and entertainment practices. We employ the theoretical framework of enregisterment in order to account for how volunteer cookbook committees create local authenticity.

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  • 33.
    Hoffman, Angela
    et al.
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    Kytö, Merja
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    According to the Recipe: Swedish-American Cookbooks and the Diachronic Patterning of Heritage Lexical Items2015Conference paper (Refereed)
  • 34. Hoffman, Angela
    et al.
    Kytö, Merja
    Cooking and Baking across Borders: Bilingual and Cultural Encounters in American and Swedish Cookbooks2016Conference paper (Refereed)
  • 35.
    Hoffman, Angela
    et al.
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    Kytö, Merja
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    Heritage Swedish, English, and Textual Space in Rural Communities of Practice2017Conference paper (Refereed)
  • 36.
    Hoffman, Angela
    et al.
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    Kytö, Merja
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    Heritage Swedish, English, and Textual Space in Rural Communities of Practice2018In: Selected Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas (WILA 8) / [ed] Jan Heegård Petersen; Karoline Kühl, Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press, 2018, p. 44-54Chapter in book (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    The aim of the present study is to survey the dynamism of language shift in the use of Heritage Swedish and American English in textual space over a span of 150 years (1850 through 2005). This socio-historical linguistic investigation employs the Communities of Practice framework to understand the social forces associated with variable patterns of bilingualism in Lutheran congregations. Analysis is performed on texts written by groups of parishioners, namely by members of parish councils and by cookbook committees, in four Midwestern Swedish-American churches. Dimensions of time, localities, and demographics are examined in observing the patterns in the writers' production of texts in dual languages. Extant evidence from the parish cookbooks reveals that most of the contents were written in English at an earlier stage than were the annual meeting minutes of the parish councils. In two of the congregations investigated, annual minutes were written in Swedish for more than sixty years. Despite the relatively early shift to English by the cookbook committees in all four parishes, the committees nonetheless promoted the use of Swedish lexis in the names of recipes, particularly in the second half of the 1900s. The cookbook committees thus preserved components of Heritage Swedish long after the documents written by parish councils had switched to English. The dynamism of the language shift in the four local congregations is compared to the previous research carried out on the national level of the Swedish-American Lutheran church.

  • 37.
    Hoffman, Angela
    et al.
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    Kytö, Merja
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    Migration, Localities, and Discourse: A Century of Community Cookbook Data and Language Contact2017Conference paper (Refereed)
  • 38.
    Hoffman, Angela
    et al.
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    Kytö, Merja
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    Mixing Ingredients and Shifting Languages: The Transmission of Heritage and Language in Swedish-American Cookbooks.2016In: The Seventh Annual Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas (WILA 7), University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia. October 27–29, 2016., 2016Conference paper (Refereed)
  • 39.
    Hoffman, Angela
    et al.
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    Kytö, Merja
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    Varying social roles and networks on a family farm: Evidence from Swedish immigrant letters, 1880s to 1930s2019In: Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics, E-ISSN 2199-2908, Vol. 5, no 2, article id 20180031Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    The present study investigates patterns of language use in the ego documents written by three Swedish immigrants: Nils Blomberg (born in 1839), Mathilda Blomberg, (b. 1863), and Anton Blomberg (b. 1885), their eldest son. The empirical foundation of the investigation is a set of 32 family letters sent over a period of nearly fifty years (1885–1934) from the rural Smoky Valley in Kansas to Mathilda’s home village in Östergötland, Sweden. We analyze the writers’ lexis, discourse patterning (formulaic versus free-flowing), and re-current topics, and the social roles and networks that are manifest in their correspondence. The three writers continued to correspond in the Swedish language over the years. Our diachronic analysis of their lexis and discourse patterning reveals individual variation across the authors’ production. For example, Mathilda’s correspondence contains some evidence of heritage Swedish (i.e. Swedish that has diverged from the home country, due to geographical separation and language contact with English). Across her lifespan, Mathilda integrates some vocabulary for plants, places, and jobs that diverges from the lexis she recalls from her early years in Sweden, and she draws attention to this lexical divergence for the sake of her readers. Anton, a childhood bilingual in Swedish and English, systematically translates English lexis to Swedish in letters, presumably with the goal to bring his Kansas experiences closer to his Swedish relatives. In particular, the letters, especially those by Mathilda, reveal not only how the individuals communicate information about their social roles in rural Kansas, but also their desires to maintain the networks connecting their family farm in the U.S. to Mathilda’s home village in Sweden.

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  • 40.
    Kytö, Merja
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    Abstract of English Corpus Linguistics in Japan, eds. Toshio Saito, Junsaku Nakamura and Shunji Yamazaki (2002)2003In: International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, ISSN 1384-6655, Vol. 8, no 1, p. 139-140Article, book review (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
  • 41.
    Kytö, Merja
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    BE/HAVE + Past Participle: The Choice of the Auxiliary with Intransitives from Late Middle to Modern English1997In: English in transition: corpus-based studies in linguistic variation and genre styles / [ed] Matti Rissanen, Merja Kytö, Kirsi Heikkonen, Mouton de Gruyter , 1997, p. 17-85Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 42.
    Kytö, Merja
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    Collocational and Idiomatic Aspects of Verbs in Early Modern English: A Corpus-based Study of MAKE, HAVE, GIVE, TAKE, and DO1999In: Collocational and Idiomatic Aspects of Composite Predicates in the History of English / [ed] Laurel J. Brinton, Minoji Akimoto, Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Amsterdam and Philadelphia. , 1999, p. 167-206Chapter in book (Refereed)
  • 43.
    Kytö, Merja
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    Collocational and Idiomatic Aspects of Verbs in Early Modern English: A Corpus-based Study of MAKE, HAVE, GIVE, TAKE, and DO2007In: Corpus Linguistics: Critical Concepts in Linguistics. 1, London: Routledge , 2007, p. 349-385Chapter in book (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
  • 44. Kytö, Merja
    "Confess if you be guilty": Witchcraft Records in Their Linguistic and Socio-Cultural Context2012Collection (editor) (Refereed)
  • 45. Kytö, Merja
    Coordination in the Courtroom: The Uses of 'and' in the Records of the Salem Witchcraft Trials2022In: Earlier North American Englishes / [ed] Merja Kytö and Lucia Siebers, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2022, p. 37-64Chapter in book (Refereed)
  • 46.
    Kytö, Merja
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    Corpora and historical linguistics2011In: Revista Brasileira de Linguistica Aplicada, ISSN 1984-6398, Vol. 11, no 2, p. 417-457Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [pt]

    Este artigo objetiva fazer um levantamento e avaliar o estado da arte dos corpora históricos eletrônicos e da metodologia de estudos de corpora, assim como sugerir possíveis desenvolvimentos futuros na área. Destaca-se que dentro do espectro metodológico da linguística de corpus, a linguística de corpus histórica emergiu como um campo de investigação vibrante que tem adicionado interesse ao estudo da história e da mudança linguística. De acordo com um pesquisador da área com mais de cinqüenta anos de experiência, "pode-se dizer que sem o apoio e o novo ímpeto trazidos pelos corpora, a linguística histórica baseada em evidências teria estado próxima ao fim de sua vida nesses tempos de rápidas mudanças de vida e de pesquisa, aumentando a competição na carreira acadêmica e nas atrações metodológicas oferecidas aos jovens pesquisadores (RISSANEN, no prelo). Corpora históricos e outros recursos eletrônicos têm também tornado o estudo da história da língua atraente: eles engajam a atenção dos estudantes tanto de forma individual quanto interativa (CURZAN 2000, p. 81).

  • 47.
    Kytö, Merja
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    Data in historical pragmatics2010In: Historical Pragmatics / [ed] Andreas H. Jucker and Irma Taavitsainen, Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter , 2010, p. 33-67Chapter in book (Refereed)
  • 48.
    Kytö, Merja
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    Early English and the Computer: Issues Solved and Unsolved2009Conference paper (Other academic)
  • 49.
    Kytö, Merja
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    Engelska2007In: Databaser och digitalisering inom humaniora: existerande resurser och framtida behov. Bilaga 4. / [ed] Eva Strangert, Stockholm: The Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet), Database Infrastructure Committee (DISC) , 2007Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 50.
    Kytö, Merja
    Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Department of English.
    Engelskans historia speglad i sina texter2008Chapter in book (Other academic)
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