Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Description of research and teaching
Carla Suhr is a University Lecturer who teaches courses in English linguistics as well as skills courses such as text analysis and academic writing. She is also an academic advisor for BA and MA level students. Her research focuses on (historical) (corpus) pragmatics, genre studies and (news) discourse analysis, and these are also topics she teaches in her linguistics courses. She has a strong interest in combining book history with her research into historical English texts. Her PhD (2011) dealt with the development of the genre of witchcraft pamphlets, and currently she works with early modern news pamphlets more generally and medical texts from the period 1500 to 1800. Since 2000, she has been a member of the Scientific Thought-Styles project – a part of the VARIENG research group – which has compiled a large corpus of historical medical writing, the Corpus of Early English Medical Writing (CEEMW).
Teaching in fall 2021: Contrastive Text Analysis, Academic Writing, Language Variation and Change (with Minna Nevala), BA Thesis Seminar
Teaching in spring 2022: Continuation of BA thesis seminar, BA level philology option course (with Maria Salenius): Game of History, MA level linguistics option course: Evaluation in texts
Education/Academic qualification
English Philology, PhD, University of Helsinki
Award Date: 16 Dec 2011
Fields of Science
- 6121 Languages
- historical linguistics
- historical pragmatics
- corpus linguistics
- genre analysis
- history of medicine
- news discourse
- book history
- Early Modern England
- literacy
International and National Collaboration
Publications and projects within past five years.
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Verbal and visual communication in title pages of early modern English specialised medical texts
Ratia, M. A. & Suhr, C. M., 2017, Verbal and Visual Communication in Early English Texts. Peikola, M., Mäkilähde, A., Salmi, H., Varila, M-L. & Skaffari, J. (eds.). Turnhout: Brepols, p. 67-93 27 p. 4. (Utrecht studies in medieval literacy; vol. 37).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
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News and relations: Highlighted textual labels in the titles of early modern news pamphlets
Suhr, C. M., 2018, Sociocultural Dimensions of Lexis and Text in the History of English. Petré, P., Cuyckens, H. & D'hoedt, F. (eds.). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, p. 41-60 20 p. (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory; no. 343).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
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Middle English: An invitation to HEL through problem-solving
Skaffari, J. & Suhr, C. M., 2019, Teaching the History of the English Language. Moore, C. & Palmer, C. C. (eds.). New York: Modern Language Association, p. 108-115 8 p. (Options for Teaching ; no. 46).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
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Review. Birte Bös and Lucia Kornexl (eds.). Changing genre conventions in historical English news discourse (Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics 5). [Book review]
Suhr, C. M., 1 Apr 2017, In: ICAME journal. 41, 1, p. 220-224 5 p., 10.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific
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From fact to fiction: Exploring the potential of pragmatic and stylistic analyses in the history of English
Lutzky, U., Mazzon, G., Nevala, M. & Suhr, C. M., 19 Dec 2016, The Pragmatics and Stylistics of Identity Construction and Characterisation. Nevala, M., Lutzky, U., Mazzon, G. & Suhr, C. (eds.). Helsinki: Varieng, Vol. 17. (Studies in Variation, Contacts and Change in English; vol. 17).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
Open Access
Projects
- 3 Active
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Scientific thought-styles: The Evolution of English Medical Writing
Taavitsainen, I., Pahta, P., Mäkinen, M., Hiltunen, T., Ratia, M., Suhr, C., Tyrkkö, J., Marttila, V., Lehto, A. & Andersson, W.
01/01/1995 → …
Project: Research project
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Research Unit for the Study of Variation, Contacts and Change in English (VARIENG)
ben-Aaron, D., Heikkinen, K., Fodor, A., Hall, A., Hintikka, M., Honkapohja, A., Juvonen, T., Kahlas-Tarkka, L., Kaislaniemi, S., Kerttula, S., Kilpinen, P., Kilpiö, M., Korhonen, M., Laitinen, M., Lehto, A., Lähdesmäki, S. M., Marttila, V., Mauranen, A., Mäkinen, M. S., McConchie, R., Meurman-Solin, A., Nevala, M., Nevalainen, T., Nurmi, A., Nuutinen, T., Paananen-Porkka, M., Paatola, U., Pahta, P. I., Palander-Collin, M., Peitsara, K., Ratia, M., Raumolin-Brunberg, H., Rissanen, M., Sairio, A., Sorva, E., Suhr, C., Stenvall, M., Säily, T., Taavitsainen, I., Hiltunen, T., Timofeeva, O., Tissari, H., Tyrkkö, J., Valtonen, I., Vartiainen, T., Vasko, A. & Österman, A.
01/01/2005 → …
Project: Research Evaluation 2011
Datasets
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Late Modern English Medical Texts: The Corpus
Taavitsainen, I. (Creator), Hiltunen, T. (Creator), Lehto, A. (Creator), Marttila, V. (Creator), Pahta, P. (Creator), Ratia, M. (Creator), Suhr, C. (Creator) & Tyrkkö, J. (Creator), John Benjamins, 2019
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Activities
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First International Conference on Historical Medical Discourse
Carla Suhr (Speaker: Presenter)
15 Jun 2017Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars
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International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English
Carla Suhr (Speaker: Presenter) & Maura Annikki Ratia (Speaker: Presenter)
27 May 2017Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars
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International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL)
Carla Suhr (Speaker: Presenter)
22 Aug 2016 → 26 Aug 2016Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars
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700 vuotta lääketieteen englantia digimuodossa
Irma Aini Johanna Taavitsainen (Speaker), Maura Annikki Ratia (Speaker) & Carla Suhr (Speaker)
15 Nov 2016Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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d2e From Data to Evidence: Big Data, Rich Data, Uncharted Data
Carla Suhr (Secretary of organizing committee)
19 Oct 2015 → 22 Oct 2015Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars
Press/Media
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Studia Generalia -luentosarja "Englannin aika"
23/03/2004
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media