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“I rede þou lerne wel þis of me”: Advice giving in Middle English medical discourse

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2024
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Taavitsainen, I., & Jucker, A. H. (2024). “I rede þou lerne wel þis of me”: Advice giving in Middle English medical discourse. In J. Räikkönen, C. Suhr, M. Palander-Collin, A. Nurmi, M. Nevala, & T. Hiltunen (Eds.), Multilingualism and Language Variation in English across Genres and Registers : A Festschrift in Honour of Päivi Pahta (No. 112; pp. 97–122). Modern Language Society of Helsinki. https://doi.org/10.51814/ufy.1041.c1456

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Advice giving has been one of the main concerns of instructional medical discourse in the history of English. These texts tell their readers how they should behave in order to preserve or regain their health. In this contribution, we focus on the Middle English period up to 1500 with a brief look at some earlier manifestations in Old English. Our data comes from the digital corpus of Middle English Medical Texts (MEMT). We approach the speech act of advice giving through a careful analysis of relevant metaillocutionary expressions, i.

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  • Räikkönen, Jenni
  • Suhr, Carla
  • Palander-Collin, Minna
  • Nurmi, Arja
  • Nevala, Minna
  • Hiltunen, Turo

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Multilingualism and Language Variation in English across Genres and Registers : A Festschrift in Honour of Päivi Pahta

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Helsinki

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97

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122

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English

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2024-10-18

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2024-10-22

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Mémoires de la Société néophilologique de Helsinki

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0355-0192

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9789519040714

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30 since deposited on 2024-10-22
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85 since deposited on 2024-10-22
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Taavitsainen, I., & Jucker, A. H. (2024). “I rede þou lerne wel þis of me”: Advice giving in Middle English medical discourse. In J. Räikkönen, C. Suhr, M. Palander-Collin, A. Nurmi, M. Nevala, & T. Hiltunen (Eds.), Multilingualism and Language Variation in English across Genres and Registers : A Festschrift in Honour of Päivi Pahta (No. 112; pp. 97–122). Modern Language Society of Helsinki. https://doi.org/10.51814/ufy.1041.c1456

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