Hanna Salmi
Ph.D.
hanna.salmi@utu.fi +358 29 450 3364 +358 50 575 7109 Arcanuminkuja 1 Turku |
historical pragmatics; Middle English; Early Modern English; multimodality in early texts
I obtained my doctoral degree from the University of Turku in 2018. Later that year, I accepted a teaching position at Stockholm University, Sweden, where I spent the following four years.
My main area of interest is the history of English, in particular the medieval and early modern periods. My Ph.D. dissertation focused on representations of conflict talk in early English debate poetry. Since then, I have developed an interest in multimodal communication in early English books and manuscripts. My current project focuses on instructive language and multimodal resources in early English dance manuals.
My current teaching includes courses on English phonetics, spoken English and academic writing and speaking. I am also in charge of some book exams on second language acquisition. In the past, I have also taught introductory courses on normative grammar, pragmatics, semantics and sociolinguistics.
- Verbal and Visual Instruction in Early Dance Manuals: The Curious Case of John Playford’s Tables (2025) Graphic Practices and Literacies in the History of English Salmi, Hanna
- Book review: Peter J. Grund: The Sociopragmatics of Stance: Community, Language, and the Witness Depositions from the Salem Witch Trials. 2021, ISBN 978-9-02-721059-3 (2022)
- Journal of Pragmatics
- “I write not to expert practitioners, but to learners”: Perceptions of reader-friendliness in early modern printed books (2020) The Dynamics of Text and Framing Phenomena: Historical approaches to paratext and metadiscourse in English Salmi Hanna
- Vihan pitkät jäljet (2018) Reima Välimäki, Niko Nikkilä, Sami Nyberg, Dita Tammivaara, Karoliina Sjö, Satu Lidman, Matti Peikola, Hanna Salmi, Mari-Liisa Varila, Marjo Kaartinen, Kurt Villads Jensen, Maijastina Kahlos, Jenni Kuuliala, Raisa Maria Toivo, Ikaros Ainasoja, Kari Karen, Mika Kurkilahti
- Disciplinary decoding: Towards understanding the language of visual and material features (2017) Reading the Page: Verbal and Visual Communication in Early English Texts Mari-Liisa Varila, Hanna Salmi, Aleksi Mäkilähde, Janne Skaffari, Matti Peikola
- Early English Debate Poetry as Conflict Talk (2017) Salmi Hanna
- For I am woorthyer by muche then he: The functions of first person singular utterances in Early Modern English debate verse (2017)
- NJES : Nordic Journal of English studies
- Verbal and Visual Communication in Early English Texts (2017) M. Peikola, A. Mäkilähde, H. Salmi, M.-L. Varila, J. Skaffari
- Visual Presentation of English Body and Soul Debates (2014)
- Studia Neophilologica
- Pragmatics on the Page: Visual Text in Late Medieval English Books (2013)
- European Journal of English Studies
- Turn-taking and immediacy in The Owl and the Nightingale (2009) Tracks to Mastering English Salmi Hanna