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Genre in English Medical Writing, 1500–1820
  • Sociocultural Contexts of Production and Use
  • Edited by Irma Taavitsainen, Turo Hiltunen, Jeremy J. Smith, Carla Suhr
  • Published online:
    13 October 2022
    Print publication:
    13 October 2022
  • Written by an interdisciplinary team of scholars, this book offers novel perspectives on the history of medical writing and scientific thought-styles by examining patterns of change and reception in genres, discourse, and lexis in the period 1500-1820. Each chapter demonstrates in detail how changing textual forms were closely tied to major multi-faceted social developments: industrialisation, urbanisation, expanding trade, colonialization, and changes in communication, all of which posed new demands on medical care. It then shows how these developments were reflected in a range of medical discourses, such as bills of mortality, medical advertisements, medical recipes, and medical rhetoric, and provides an extensive body of case studies to highlight how varieties of medical discourse have been targeted at different audiences over time. It draws on a wide range of methodological frameworks and is accompanied by numerous relevant illustrations, making it essential reading for academic researchers and students across the human sciences.

  • Chapter 1 - Medical Discourse and Sociocultural Contexts 1500–1820

  • Edited by Irma Taavitsainen, University of Helsinki, Turo Hiltunen, University of Helsinki, Jeremy J. Smith, University of Glasgow, Carla Suhr, University of Helsinki
  • Book:
    Genre in English Medical Writing, 1500–1820
    Published online:
    13 October 2022
    Print publication:
    13 October 2022, pp 1-12

  • Summary

    This introductory chapter discusses the contents of the volume with its focus on genres and text traditions of medical discourse in a diachronic perspective. Variability of medical language with its conventions and traditions of writing is a leading theme in several chapters and surfaces in others as well. The social and cultural contexts of production and use as well as meaning-making processes of written texts as communicative events receive attention. All contributions take context in textual production and use into account. Another point of emphasis is variation in discourse forms in texts that were removed from the original settings and repurposed for new readerships. Texts circulating in Britain are at centre stage, but medical discourses reflecting common ideological assumptions had a broad currency and English writers shared profoundly in the pan-European medical culture.

  • 13 - A Place for pliis in Finnish

  • from Part III - Language Contact Settings
  • Edited by Elizabeth Peterson, University of Helsinki, Turo Hiltunen, University of Helsinki, Joseph Kern
  • Book:
    Discourse-Pragmatic Variation and Change
    Published online:
    14 July 2022
    Print publication:
    28 July 2022, pp 272-290

  • Summary

    This study offers a discourse–pragmatic variationist overview of the use of pliis ’please’ in Finnish requests, making use of two different sets of computer–mediated communication (CMC) data. The aim of the chapter is to elucidate previous findings, which suggest that, unlike the heritage lexical politeness marker kiitos, pliis is preferred in a clause–internal position. This finding raises questions about the nativization process and penetrability of the clause in remote language contact settings. As such, our study addresses a challenge of discourse–pragmatic variation studies: accountability when dealing with linguistic variables that are by definition functionally ambiguous. Thus, we underscore the need for especially discourse–pragmatic studies to make use of multiple datasets, even when addressing what appears to be a straightforward question. Second, the chapter also has the benefit of contributing to the overall knowledge of requests in Finnish, about which there is relatively little quantitative research.

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