Alpo Honkapohja

MA, Postgraduate Researcher
Room 355, Vironkatu 1
Phone +358 (0)9 191 24383
E-mail: alpo.honkapohja(at)helsinki.fi

Research Interests

I am working on my PhD thesis, a digital online edition of manuscript Trinity College, Cambridge, O.1.77, intended as the first genuinely bilingual online resource of medical manuscripts in late Medieval England. The edition will contain the manuscript, giving equal attention to Middle English and Latin texts. It is designed for both historical linguists and historians, but special attention is paid to the needs of historical linguistics. My own research interests with the edition focus on multilingualism, historical dialectology, and the production of manuscripts in the 15th century.

O.1.77 is a late Middle English pocket-sized medical handbook, dated ca. 1454-1459, in London or Westminster. The manuscript contains 10-18 medical texts, in English and Latin, on a variety of subjects, ranging from uroscopies, to plague treatises, alchemical texts and astrological charts.

The technical side of my digital editions is being developed as a part of the Digital Editions for Corpus Linguistics (DECL) project. DECL focuses on developing online editions of historical manuscripts that combine detailed description of manuscripts with search tools developed for linguistic computing.

Publications

Honkapohja, A 2011, 'Multilingualism in Trinity College Cambridge O.1.77' in J Fisiak & M Bator (eds.), Foreign Influences on Medieval English: Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main, pp. 25-45.

Biber, D; Grey B; Honkapohja A & Pahta, P 2011, 'Prepositional modifiers in early English medical prose: A study on their historical development in noun phrases.' in P Pahta & A Jucker (eds.), Communicating Early English Manuscripts: Studies in English Language. CUP, Cambridge, pp. 197-211.

Honkapohja, A; Kaislaniemi, S & Marttila, V 2009, 'Digital editions for Corpus Linguistics: Representing manuscript reality in electronic corpora' in A Jucker, D Schreier & M Hundt (eds.), Corpora: Pragmatics and Discourse. Papers from the 29th International Conference on English Language Research on Computerized Corpora (ICAME 29). Ascona, Switzerland, 14-18 May 2008. Rodopi, Amsterdam/New York, pp. 451-474.

McConchie, RW; Honkapohja, A & Tyrkkö J (eds.) 2009, Selected Proceedings of the 2008 Symposium on New Approaches in English Historical Lexis (HEL-LEX 2), Cascadilla Press, Somerville, USA.

Honkapohja, A 2009, Sex, Aging, & Death in a Medieval Medical Compendium. Trinity College Cambridge MS R.14.52, Its Texts, Language, and Scribe. by T Tavormina 2006. Reviewed in Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 3, CX 2009.

Honkapohja, A 2004, 'I hear a tone, I gotta go: Suomalaista rock-musiikkia' in T Nevalainen, M Rissanen & I Taavitsainen (eds.) Englannin aika: elävän kielen kartoitusta, WSOY, Helsinki, pp. 149-160.

Grants

2011, Finnish Cultural Foundation, Research Grant, 12 months, 21000 euros.

2010, Finnish Cultural Foundation, Research Grant, 12 months, 21000 euros.

2010, Helsingin yliopiston rahastot, Personal Research grant, 2500 euros.

2009, Research Unit for Variation, Contacts and Change in English (VARIENG), 12 months, 18000 euros.

Conference presentations

Honkapohja, A 2010, 'Latina ja englanti kohtaavat tieteellisen kirjoittamisen kielenä: digitaalinen verkkoeditio käsikirjoituksesta Trinity College Cambridge O.1.77.' a paper presented to the Dies Medievales 2010 conference, University of Eastern Finland, Mikkeli, 10-11 September.

Honkapohja, A 2010, 'A Bilingual Digital Edition of Trinity College Cambridge MS O.1.77.' a poster presented to the Digital Humanities 2010 conference, King's College, London, 7-10 July.

Honkapohja, A 2009, 'Multilingualism in Trinity College Cambridge, O.1.77.' a paper presented to the Foreign Influences on Medieval English conference, Warsaw, Poland, 12-13 December.

Honkapohja, A & Marttila, V 2009, 'Digital Editions for Corpus Linguistics: Encoding Abbreviations in TEI XML Markup' a paper presented to the International Medieval Congress (IMC), University of Leeds, 13-16 July.

Honkapohja, A 2009, 'Digital Editions for Corpus Linguistics: Encoding Abbreviations in TEI XML Markup' a poster presented to the Digital Humanities 2009 conference, University of Maryland, USA, 22-25 June.

Honkapohja, A 2008, 'A Digital Edition of MS O.1.77. Trinity College Cambridge' a paper presented to the Sixth International Conference of Middle English (ICOME6), University of Cambridge, England, 24-26 July.

Honkapohja, A; Kaislaniemi S & Marttila V 2008, 'Digital Editions for Corpus Linguistics: A new approach to creating electronic editions of historical manuscripts' a paper presented to the Digital Humanities 2008 conference, University of Oulu, Finland, 25-29 June.

Honkapohja, A; Kaislaniemi S & Marttila V 2008, 'Digital Editions for Corpus Linguistics: representing manuscript reality in electronic corpora' a poster presented to the ICAME29 conference, Ascona, Switzerland, 14-18 May.

Memberships

Digital Editions for Corpus Linguistics (DECL), member 2007-

Glossa, the Society for Medieval Studies in Finland, secretary 2009-2010, vice-board member 2011-

Routledge Annotated Bibliography of English Studies (ABES), contributor (field: medieval literature), 2007-

Suomen kirjahistoriallinen seura ry (Book Historical Society of Finland), member 2011-

Turku Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (TUCEMEMS), member 2011-

Teaching experience (academic)

Autumn 2009, Hourly paid lecturer, Introduction to Manuscript Studies, University of Helsinki.

Teaching experience (English as a second language)

2006-2010, Eximia, inc., Helsinki

2008-2009, Laurea: University of Applied Sciences, Lohja

2004-2006, Omnia Vocational College, Espoo

2004-2006, Vanhankylän koulu, Tuusula

Other academic work experience

November-December 2008, Editorial Secretary, Hel-Lex 2: New Approaches in English Historical Lexis.

March-April 2008, Conference Secretary, Hel-Lex 2: New Approaches in English Historical Lexis.

2000-2004, Research Assistant, Middle English Medical Texts.

IT skills & digital humanities

2010-2011. Member of the Helsinki Corpus into XML team, Varieng, University of Helsinki.

28 June-2 July 2010. Digital Humanities Observatory: XML Summer School, Dublin, Ireland

12-14 July 2010. TEI Summer School, Oxford, England

Spring 2009, HTML & web publishing, language technology, University of Helsinki

Autumn 2008, XML metalanguage, language technology, University of Helsinki

2003-2004, courses in Excel, MS Word, Powerpoint & Photoshop.

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