Helsingin yliopisto - Englantilainen filologia

Carla Suhr

Room: C607
Consultation hours: Thu 11–12

Telephone national: (09) 191 22640 (office)
Telephone national: (09) 191 24245 (research)
Telephone international: +358 191 22640

E-mail: carla.suhr(at)helsinki.fi

Research interests:

My research focuses on the evolution of sixteenth and seventeenth-century witchcraft pamphlets, though I have recently also started looking at medical advertising in pamphlets of the same period. I am especially interested in the structuring and argumentation devices in pamphlets as
tools for analyzing the interplay of orality, aurality and literacy in the new genre.

I am a member of the Scientific Thought-styles project in the
Research Unit for Variation, Contacts and Change in English (VARIENG).

Publications:

(2006) ‘Early Modern English witchcraft pamphlets: The use of reported speech for interaction with semiliterate audiences.’ Taavitsainen, Irma, Juhani Härmä & Jarmo Korhonen (eds), Dialogic Language Use. (Mémoires de la Société Néophilologique de Helsinki 66.) Société Néophilologique. 27-47.

(2004) (with Mauri Ratia) ‘”Jos mä voin suoraan sanoa niin et niinku THE GAME IS ON”: Ajatuksia nuorten kielestä tekstiviesteissä.’ Nevalainen, Terttu, Matti Rissanen & Irma Taavitsainen (eds), Englannin aika. (The time of English).
WSOY. 140-8.

(2002) ‘Speaking to the masses: Orality and literacy in six Early Modern texts on witchcraft.’ Helsinki English Studies 2.