Marianna Hintikka

MA, Postgraduate Researcher
Room 455, Vironkatu 1
Phone +358 (0)9 191 23502
E-mail: marianna.hintikka(at)helsinki.fi

Research Interests

My PhD thesis deals with the semantic field of evil in Old, Middle, Early Modern, and Modern English. Using various electronic corpora of English texts as my source material I attempt to trace semantic changes in the adjectives bad, evil, ill, lither, naughty, vile  and wicked by studying their collocational properties in the four periods. My main theoretical framework is the prototype theory of semantics and I am also interested in metaphoric extension.

Publications

(2004) "Mistä on rumat sanat tehty ." Englannin aika, ed. by Terttu Nevalainen, Matti Rissanen & Irma Taavitsainen. Helsinki: WSOY, 187-193.

(forhcoming) ”Metaphors of EVIL in Early Modern and Present-Day English ” The change of meaning and the meaning of change, ed. by Marianna Hintikka, Leena Kahlas-Tarkka, Roderick McConchie & Matti Rissanen.