Jan-Ola Östman

Publications

In addition to my "normal" publications, I have been fairly active as (co-)editor of journals and of book series.

Here is an overview of these activities.

Handbook of Pragmatics and Handbook of Pragmatics Online (John Benjamins Publ.)

- co-editor with Jef Verschueren 1993–2021

- additional co-editors for shorter periods (during 1993–2021): Jan Blommaert, Chris Bulcaen, Eline Versluys

Constructional Approaches to Language (John Benjamins Publ.)

- co-editor with Mirjam Fried 2004–2012

- co-editor with Kyoko Ohara 2013–2022

- co-editor with Mirjam Fried & Kyoko Ohara 2023–

Journal of Pragmatics (Elsevier)

- co-editor with Jacob Mey & Hartmut Haberland 1986–1989

- co-editor with Mey, Haberland & Richard Janney 1990–1991

- co-editor with Mey, Haberland, Janney & Claudia Caffi 1992

Nordic Journal of Linguistics (Scandinavian University Press & later Taylor & Francis; now: Cambridge University Press)

- review and discussions editor 1996–2001

PIC publications: PIC Monographs, PIC Bulletins and PIC Reports (The Pragmatics, Ideology, and Contacts project at the University of Helsinki)

- series editor 1994–

Nordica Helsingiensia series (Nordica, University of Helsinki)

- desk editor, contact person and sometimes-called-upon editor for the series as a whole 2004–2016

- editor of the sub-series Teckenspråksstudier 2005–2016

- editor of the sub-series Dialektforskning 2008–2016

Publications, Technical reports, Prepublications, Lingvistibulletiini (Department of General Linguistics, University of Helsinki)

- co-editor with Fred Karlsson & Kimmo Koskenniemi 1996–1999

Membership on editorial boards is given on my CV. In the case of two international journals, I have been offered a slightly higher status than as member of their editorial board; this naturally requires extra attention and joint responsibility for the continuing high quality of the journals. These two journals are

Text and Talk (Walter de Gruyter)

- Member of Specialist Board

Constructions and Frames (John Benjamins Publ.)

- Advisory editor until 2020

In the menue under Publications, I have also organized my publications under labels for some of the most frequent fields that I have worked in. Not all publications relevant to a particular category have been included in these lists – just the ones I think are the most important ones.

If you want a full picture of all my scientific publications, go to the Complete List of Publications, where I have disclosed everything, year-by-year.