bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Elevens kunskapsstrukturer – forskarens tolkningsmöjligheter som utmaning
Authors: Bergroth Mari , Hirvonen Pia
Published: November 2024

Artikkelissa tarkastelemme kuinka täydelliseen varhaiseen ruotsin kielen kielikylpyyn osallistuvat 3., 6. ja 9.-luokkalaiset oppilaat kertovat keväästä kielikylpykielellään ruotsilla. Tavoitteenamme on luoda kolmiportainen analysointimalli oppilaiden käsiterakenteiden kuvaamiseen. Mallin avulla tarkastelemme 29 ryhmätyön valmista esitystä kevään saapumisesta Suomeen. Analyysissamme pohdiskelemme erityisesti oppilaille tarjottujen virikesanojen välisiä yhteyksiä ja keskustelemme kuinka tutkijan valitsema näkökulma varsinkin implisiittisesti ilmaistujen tietorakenteiden analysointiin on asettaa haasteita tulosten arviointiin.
Die Weitung der Perspektive als Strategie der Textöffnung in Peter Waterhouse’ Gedicht ,,Verwerfung, Bedeutung, Permutation”
Authors: De Felip Eleonore
Published: November 2024

In his poem “Verwerfung, Bedeutung, Permutation” (1986), the Austrian poet Peter Waterhouse performs a continuous change of point of view. Every line, every sentence seems to come from a different direction; there is no manifest link between them; they seem to reject and contradict one another. The poetic strategy of shifting continuously from one point of view to the other aims at opening a gap between the sentences. The secret “heart” of the poem can be found here, in between the words, behind the lines, it is an empty space, full of silence. This silent emptiness behind the words evokes an atmosphere of wideness, permeability and transparency. Instead of trying to understand the “meaning” of every single sentence, the present article analyses how the text, by opening all perspectives to an extreme extent, leads to a complete loss of perspectiveness in the end. In other words, the article discusses the gradual overcoming of every ego-centered point of view occurring in the poem.
Kieli tulee kielen päälle: kansainvälisten opiskelijoiden käsityksiä suomen kielen oppimisesta
Authors: Partanen Maiju
Published: November 2024

The amount of international students is increasing in Finland. It is, however, often challenging for them to get a job in their field of education due to the lack of Finnish language skills. This paper focuses on the beliefs of African nursing students. Eight interviews are analysed to show how the students see the role of Finnish language and the challenges in learning it. Theoretically the study draws on the sociocognitive framework that combines dialogical (Bakhtin 1986) and socio-cultural (Lantolf & Thorne 2006) approaches to language learning. The dialogical analysis of learner beliefs (Aro 2009) regards both language and beliefs as dynamic and heteroglossic. The shared belief of the students is that the interactional support received from speakers of Finnish would develop their language learning the most. Nevertheless, it is challenging to find Finnish language communities or environments which would provide opportunities for using and learning the Finnish language.
Keskusteluteemat tekniseen erikoisalaan liittyvissä verkkokeskusteluissa kuluttajan näkökulmasta
Authors: Salmela Eveliina
Published: November 2024

This paper is a piece of ongoing research which concerns requesting and providing domain-specific information in online communities. The present study examines discussion boards that function as information-sharing communities about a specific domain. The aim of this paper is to find out what kinds of discussion themes are brought up in the opening messages of the message threads and how they can be divided into the phases of the consumer buying decision process. The special field selected for this study is domestic heating and especially heat pumps. The empirical data consists of 300 opening messages collected from two different Finnish discussion boards: Lampopumput.info (heatpumps.info), which requires participants to register and Suomi24.fi (Finland24), which allows them to participate in the discussion anonymously. The methodological and theoretical approach of the present study is computermediated discourse analysis. By using content analysis, the data was categorized into discussion themes based on the consumer buying decision process. The results show that the buying decision process was the most common discussion theme as a whole, especially on the discussion board that allows anonymous participation. Installing and using products were more common themes on the discussion board that requires registration.
Informerande myndighetstexter på webben i ett kontrastivt perspektiv
Authors: Tolvanen Eveliina
Published: November 2024

Tutkin artikkelissani viranomaisten tiedottavia verkkotekstejä eläkkeistä vertailevasta näkökulmasta keskittyen tekstien ei-kielellisiin piirteisiin. Aineisto koostuu neljästä ryhmästä: Suomen Kansaneläkelaitoksen (Kelan) suomen- ja ruotsinkielisistä teksteistä sekä Ruotsin Pensionsmyndighetenin (suom. Eläkeviraston) ruotsin- ja suomenkielisistä teksteistä vuodelta 2012. Aineistojen välillä on eroja niin tekstien laajuudessa, hierarkkisessa rakenteessa kuin siinä, millaisia visuaalisia ja interaktiivisia elementtejä niissä käytetään.
Japanese earthquake slogans and the persistence of wakimae (’discernment’)
Authors: Azuma Shoji
Published: November 2024

Katastrophen führen oft zu Äußerungen von Solidarität, wie sich am Beispiel des Zurschaustellens von amerikanischen Fahnen in der Nachfolge des 11. September in den USA ablesen lässt (Collins 2004). Im Gegensatz dazu haben Macomber, Mallinson & Seale (2011) in ihrer Studie zu Hurrikan Katrina über Äußerungen von Solidarität hinaus auch Aussprüche mit politischen, verdammenden, humorvollen und sexualisierten Inhalten gefunden. Die vorliegende Untersuchung zum Erdbeben in Japan und der in diesem Zusammenhang auftretenden Äußerungen dagegen hat nur Ausdrücke von Solidariät vorgefunden, was darauf hindeutet, dass in der japanischen Kultur weiterhin Kollektivismus vorherrscht, wonach wakimae (‚Einsicht‘) oder Konformismus mit der sozialen Norm (Ide 1989) höchst anstrebenswert sind.
Läroplaners demokratiska anslag
Authors: Gårdemar Gunnar
Published: November 2024

Ruotsissa ja Suomessa lukion opetussuunnitelmissa demokraattinen arvoperusta ilmaistaan selkeästi. Niiden johdannoissa korostetaan, että koulutuksen tehtävänä on luoda ja vahvistaa kunnioitusta ihmisoikeuksia ja perustavia demokraattisia arvoja kohtaan. Demokratia ja ihmisoikeudet ovat keskeisesti läsnä myös ruotsalaisissa kurssi- ja oppiainesuunnitelmissa. Keskeistä tehtävässä, jonka opetussuunnitelmat antavat koululle, on siis oppilaan kasvattaminen kansalaiseksi, joka ylläpitää ja kehittää demokraattista, tulevaisuuden haasteisiin vastaamaan kykenevää yhteiskuntaa. Koulun tulee sekä uudistaa että kehittää yhteiskuntaa.
Artikkelissani tutkin, miten demokraattinen arvopohja ja kansalaisuuskasvatus ilmaistaan kielellisesti ruotsalaisissa ja suomalaisissa opetussuunnitelmissa. Aineisto koostuu opetussuunnitelmien johdannoista. Tutkimuksen tarkoituksena on määritellä olennaisia demokratiaan liittyviä teemoja ja verrata, millä sanoin ne rakentavat demokraattista arvoperustaa. Sanaston analyysin avulla voidaan saada tietoa siitä, millaisten seikkojen opetussuunnitelman tekijät ymmärtävät rakentavan tätä arvoperustaa ja muodostuvan osaksi kansalaisuuskasvatus. Koska tutkimusaineisto on kahdelta vuosikymmeneltä, tarkoituksena on myös tutkia, kuinka demokraattinen arvopohja on ilmaistu kielellisesti eri aikoina ja kuinka sen ilmaisu on muuttunut.
Sprachenpolitik finnischer Universitäten im Zeitalter strategischer Internationalisierung
Authors: Ylönen Sabine
Published: November 2024

The Finnish Ministry of Education expected higher education institutions to draw up language strategies during 2009. The aim of the present study is to explore to what extent this expectation was taken into account by the universities. To investigate the state and contents of the language strategies, archival research and surveys were designed. The research questions were: 1) How many language strategies existed until the beginning of 2014? 2) Is there any evidence for cooperation between universities in language strategy matters? 3) Which languages matter strategically? The results show that until the beginning of 2014, 71 percent of the universities had a language strategy. It appears that there was no cooperation between the universities. All language strategy documents indicated a strong emphasis on English for internationalisation purposes without neglecting the legislative regulations for the national languages, Finnish and Swedish. Internationalisation seemed to be equated with the use of English. In most cases, reference to foreign languages other than English was made only vaguely.
Sanseindtrykkets grænser i billede og tekst – udtryk af sanser i det 21. århundredes finlandssvenske billedbog
Authors: Kvist Maria , Sandvad West Kim
Published: November 2024

Our study about the expression of senses in text and picture in the Finland-Swedish picture book published in the 21st century aims to discover how the borders between text and picture are dynamic and can change according to the situation. Through a qualitative close reading we have analyzed the expressions of the five physical senses, hearing, seeing, feeling, smelling and tasting, in both text and picture to see if the two media express the same or different senses. In this article we give examples of the most common expressions and discuss how the expressions in text and picture can change the interpreting situation for the reader. We have found that when both text and picture express the same sense, the reader’s possibilities to interpret the situation are reduced, while when a sense is expressed in only one of the media, the reader is left with a larger room for subjective interpretations.
Crossing Generational and Genre Boundaries in Commemorating the Holocaust
Authors: Parry Christoph
Published: November 2024

Der Beitrag handelt von der Schwierigkeit, zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts in angemessener Weise den Holocaust in der Literatur und Kunst zu behandeln. Wir befinden uns an der von Jan Assmann festgestellten zeitlichen Grenze, wo mit dem Ableben der letzten Zeitzeugen, die Erinnerung an den Holocaust aus dem kommunikativen Gedächtnis in das kulturelle Gedächtnis überwechselt. Stieß schon die Darstellung des Holocausts für die Generation der Zeitzeugen bereits an die Grenze des Sagbaren, so ist die glaubwürdige Darstellung des Geschehens für die Nachgeborenen noch schwieriger. Ein mögliches Verfahren liegt darin, durch Zitat und Anspielung die Zeitzeugen selbst zu Wort kommen zu lassen, wodurch die Grenze zwischen den Gedächtnisarten durchlässiger wird. Am Beispiel von W. G. Sebalds Austerlitz, das Erfahrungen des Auschwitz-Überlebenden Jean Améry verarbeitet, und an der von Gedichten Paul Celans inspirierten Malerei von Anselm Kiefer werden zwei gelungene Anwendungen dieses Verfahrens vorgestellt.
Hävlig, ett dialektalt ord med flera betydelser
Authors: Nilsson Gunvor
Published: November 2024

In this article, I present a study of the adjective hävlig in the Swedish language, how this word has been described in dialect lexicons and in historical dictionaries, the etymology, the meanings and the uses of the word. The meanings of hävlig can be divided into three main groups: 1. able, clever (about person and animal); 2. proud, self-important (about person and animal); and 3. a) good, fine (about thing). b) not good enough. The uses of hävlig in negative sentences receive special attention, especially those used to indicate that something, in fact, is not as good as it ought to be, “not hävlig”. From a semantic point of view, I discuss how hävlig has been used for describing various qualities and conditions, good as well as bad ones, in Swedish dialects, and how it still appears in the language today.
Tavallisten kielenkäyttäjien käsityksiä termeistä
Authors: Pasanen Päivi
Published: November 2024

According to the international standard ISO 704, terms represent general concepts in a special language in a specific subject field (ISO 704:2009(E): 34). Correspondingly, general language is not supposed to contain terms (see e.g. TTP s. v. yleiskieli) and, consequently, they are not expected to appear in general texts. However, sometimes the need arises to use special language to communicate particular concepts to the public. Therefore, based on my experience, I argue that terms are indeed used in everyday communication, for example in mass media. In this paper, I discuss terms in general language communication. The study addresses the question of what type of concepts requiring special language are communicated in mass media. The textual corpus used for the study consists of news and comments on it published in the Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat in 2011–2012. The corpus is available in the Language Bank of Finland and can be searched with the concordance search tool Korp. The results of the study show that a large number of items which were designated as terms by the readers were not terms in any specific field. This implies that a reader’s opinion of a term differs from that of a terminologist.
”Nyt minä ymmärrän paljon, mitä työntekijät naiset puhuvat” – Ulkomaalaistaustaiset sairaanhoitajaopiskelijat ammatillisella kielirajalla
Authors: Pilke Nina
Published: November 2024

Denna artikel handlar om fackspecifik språkkompetens i yrkesinriktad undervisningskontext. Artikeln sätter fokus dels på de utmaningar som finns i samband med ett engelskspråkigt Nursing-program, dels på de möjligheter som kan identifieras i de nuvarande verksamhetssätten ur studerandenas, lärarnas och praktikhandledarnas synvinkel. Känneteckenanalysen visar att de största utmaningarna är arbetslivets och praktikplatsernas språkkrav, de mångsidiga behov som studerandena har för sin kompetensutveckling, språkundervisningen roll i utbildningsprogrammet och splittrad input. Till de centrala möjligheterna hör studerandenas höga motivation, högre medvetenhet ifråga om språkliga mål, samarbete i olika former, tillgång till språkliga resurser och mångsidiga språkanvändningssituationer.
Ett tidigt försök att etablera en svensk juridisk vokabulär? Lexikaliska och fackspråkliga perspektiv på en juridisk handbok från 1674
Authors: Rogström Lena , Landqvist Hans
Published: November 2024

In this paper we investigate if growth and consolidation of legal vocabulary can be discerned in a Swedish legal handbook from 1674. The survey focuses on 55 lexical units in Latin and Swedish from four central semantic areas of the legal process: the ACTIONS, the ACTORS, the ARENAS and the TOOLS. The investigation is carried out with material from the first legal handbook in Swedish: Observationes […] (1674), by Clas Rålamb together with four Swedish dictionaries published between 1773 and 2009. We analyse to what extent the lexical units were lexicalized at that time and if they perhaps could be considered to be juridical terms of Swedish (Germanic) or Latin origin. The results show that Swedish and Latin lexical units co-vary with the different semantic areas. The area of TOOLS has the closest connection to Latin, whereas the other semantic areas to a higher extent are related to Swedish. There is also reason to believe that Swedish legal terminology started to gain structure long before the printing of the first legal handbook in Swedish.
Colonial Discourse Undermined? J.G. Farrell’s Troubles
Authors: Wessel Katri Annika
Published: November 2024

Der Beitrag untersucht, ob Elemente kolonialen Diskurses in J.G. Farrells 1970 erschienenem Roman Troubles eine bloße Reproduktion des Diskurses präsentieren oder ob und wie sich ihre Gestaltung auch den Diskurs unterlaufenden Lesarten öffnet. Troubles zeichnet ein Bild der irischen Unruhen 1919–1921 und konfrontiert eine von ihrer Überlegenheit überzeugte Gruppe von Anglo-Iren mit ihre Welt erschütternden historischen Ereignissen. Drei Perspektiven auf Elemente kolonialen Diskurses zeigen, dass dieser im Text mehrfach durchbrochen und entlarvt wird.
Raha puhuu englantia? Kielipolitiikka suomalaisten pörssiyhtiöiden sijoittajasivuilla
Authors: Koskela Merja , Heino Onerva
Published: November 2024

This study examines which languages are used on investor websites of Finnish listed companies, and considers what language choice reveals about the companies’ attitudes on language and on investors as a key stakeholder group. The data consists of 27 investor websites of Finnish companies listed on OMX Helsinki. The analysis shows that the most used language profile on the investor websites is a bilingual profile combining Finnish and English. Monolingual profiles are rare, as are profiles combining three languages. The study compares the contents of different language versions of bilingual and trilingual investor websites and analyses the causes for possible differences. The results show that both implicit and explicit language policies are involved on the investor websites. There are also signs of power-sharing via language, as well as signs of different target groups’ influence on language choices.
Tekstuaalisen tekijyyden ulottuvuuksia verkkokeskustelujen kontekstissa
Authors: Kääntä Liisa , Salmela Eveliina
Published: November 2024

The present article deals with textual authorship in three kinds of Finnish online discussions, which differ in terms of registration policies, usage of names and pseudonyms and the technical construction of the discussions. The online discussions were analyzed from the point of view of how participants show their authorship in them. The results of the analysis combining computer-mediated discourse analysis and lexical-semantic analysis show that authorship is manifested through the continuum from the explicit to the implicit expressions. Participants in the online discussion manifest explicit authorship using for example singular first person nouns and other means that amplify their own interpretation and communication, whereas implicit authorship is manifested for example through citing text that someone else has written. These dimensions of authorship are also largely defined by the contexts of the online discussions, as participants on open discussion board where temporary pseudonyms are preferred possess less need for pointing out one’s own authorship and expertise than on discussion board where participants use more permanent pseudonyms or real names.
Übersetzung und Intertextualität
Authors: Nikula Henrik
Published: November 2024

Intertextualiteten ses inom textlingvistiken som ett grundläggande textualitetskriterium. I detta bidrag analyseras framför allt intertextualiteten mellan utgångs- och måltexten som ett resultat av översättningsprocessen. Det kan verka trivialt att hävda att det råder en relation av intertextualitet mellan översättning och original men genom att utgå från begreppen ”verk” och ”upphovsman” kan intressanta aspekter belysas. Vems verk läser man när man läser en översättning? Översättning och original utgör på olika sätt varandras ko-texter. Framför allt i fråga om litterära texter torde det här presenterade analysförfarandet kunna visa sig vara fruktbart.
Kuhan postasin. Internetmeemi kielipelinä
Authors: Pilke Nina
Published: November 2024

I denna artikel analyseras internetmemer ur språklig synvinkel. Materialet består av 79 memer som har publicerats på Facebook-sidan Vainkuhajutut under tiden 9.10–30.11.2015. Materialet analyseras för det första kvantitativt med utgångspunkt i memetikens principer (ändring, tävling, urval, maximal respons) och för det andra kvalitativt genom begreppet ’språkspel’ (regler, drag). Kärnan i memerna i materialet utgörs av talspråksbaserad homonymi mellan de finska orden kuha (sv gös) och kunhan (sv när)och man leker med språket och betydelser genom talspråkliga former, dialekt, idiom och ordlekar. Memen harkopierats effektivt till över en miljon människor genom gilla-funktionen och genom att man har delat innehåll på sidan hundratusentals gånger samt genom att publikationerna har kommenterats flitigt på sidan. När någon bryter mot språkspelets regler på sidan eller speciellt utanför den, kommenteras det enligt resultaten snabbt. Internetmemer kan sägas representera en typ av intelligensuppgifter som vid sidan av att underhålla även kan höja den språkliga medvetenheten hos en bred publik. Därför behövs mer språkvetenskaplig forskning i deras existens samt i hur de kopieras, lagras, uppstår och försvinner.
Språklig identitet i narrativer – språkögymnasister berättar
Authors: Risto Elisa
Published: November 2024

Tässä artikkelissa tarkastelen, miten Oulun kielisaarekelukiolaiset eli Oulun ruotsinkielisen lukion opiskelijat rakentavat ja perustelevat kielellistä identiteettiään eli kielellistä minäkuvaansa kirjallisissa narratiiveissaan. Narratiivin käsitteellä viittaan tutkimuksen kerronnalliseen luonteeseen, tutkimusmateriaaliin kertomuksina ja kerronnalliseen analyysiin. Identiteetillä, kerronnallisuudella ja kielellä on läheinen suhde, sillä ihminen rakentaa identiteettiään kertomuksissaan kielen avulla. Artikkelissani tarkastelen, mitä kertomusten sisältö ja kielellinen muoto paljastavat kertojien kielellisestä identiteetistä. Tutkin neljää kielellisen identiteetin aspektia (kielitaito, kielellinen alkuperä ja tausta, kielenkäyttö sekä kielen merkitys tunnekielenä) ja kahta kielen piirrettä (persoonapronominit me ja he sekä arvottava adjektiivi tärkeä). Tutkimusmateriaalina käytän kielisaarekelukiolaisten suomen- ja ruotsinkielisiä kertomuksia. Kerronnallisessa tutkimuksessa keskeistä ovatkin yksilö ja hänen henkilökohtaiset kertomuksensa.
Finska svenskinlärares konnektorbruk på CEFR-nivåerna A1, A2 och B1 ur ett systemiskt-funktionellt perspektiv
Authors: Vaakanainen Veijo
Published: November 2024

The aim of this paper is to examine how Finnish learners of Swedish use connectors in their written narratives at CEFR-levels A1, A2 and B1. It has been investigated what the typical use of connectors is at each CEFR-level and in which functions different connectors have been used. The theoretical framework of the study is systemic-functional linguistics. The material consists of 303 narratives written by Finnish pupils in comprehensive school and upper-secondary school. The material which is used in this study is a part of the corpus of learners’ Swedish which has been gathered during the project Topling – Paths in Second Language Acquisition at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland. The results show that more connectors have been used at higher CEFR-levels and especially the number of när (when), eftersom (because) and att (that) rises when a learner shifts to a higher CEFR-level. In addition, the systemic-functional analysis shows that most of the connectors are used in the same way at all levels and mostly in their prototypic functions with a few exceptions such as the comparative connector som (as) which has been used either as a temporal or a causal connector. In the future, learners’ connector-usage in Swedish should be studied in different text types and it should be compared with a native speaker’s connectorusage. Also the systemic-functional perspective should be emphasized more in future studies.
A Different Kind of Text: Students’ Glossaries in Moodle
Authors: Kudashev Igor
Published: November 2024

Suosittu verkko-opetusympäristö Moodleen kuuluu erittäin hyödyllinen, mutta harvemmin käytetty sanastomoduuli, jonka avulla opiskelijat voivat laatia omia sanastoja. Tämän artikkelin tavoitteena on kertoa positiivisesta kokemuksesta Moodlen sanastomoduulin käytöstä kääntäjänkoulutuksessa Helsingin yliopistossa ja antaa suosituksia sanastotyön organisoinnista sekä sana-artikkeleiden mahdollisesta rakenteesta. Moodlen sanastomoduuli on alun perin tarkoitettu vaikeiden sanojen varustamiseen määritelmällä, mutta mikään ei estä lisäämästä sana-artikkeleihin muitakin tietoja, kuten vieraskielisiä vastineita, erilaisia merkintöjä ja käyttöesimerkkejä. Sana-artikkeleiden rakenteesta ja muotoilusta on kuitenkin sovittava etukäteen, mieluummin laatimisohjeiden muodossa. Käsittelenkin tässä artikkelissa leksikografisia kysymyksiä, jotka on otettava huomioon kaksikielistä sanastoa perustettaessa Moodleen.
Stimmen zu Mehrsprachigkeit in finnischen Unternehmen: Ausgewählte Ergebnisse der LangBuCom-Studie
Authors: Breckle Margit , Schlabach Joachim
Published: November 2024

This paper addresses multilingualism in Finnish companies. It presents the selected results of a survey, which was carried out within the project Languages in international business communication (LangBuCom). The questionnaire was answered by 272 employees, who have business contacts with German-speaking partners. The paper focuses on the respondents' language skills, on their attitude towards multilingualism, on the use of multiple languages in the work context and on problems when using multiple languages. The study shows that the respondents have diverse language skills and a majority has language skills in five or more languages. The respondents' attitudes towards multilingualism are (very) positive and they often experience situations where they use two or more languages in one and the same situation. However, they mention different challenges when using multiple languages, but they also provide solutions how to overcome the problems.
Röster i teknikens värld. Termer, fackexperter och språkexperter
Authors: Landqvist Hans , Nissilä Niina , Pilke Nina
Published: November 2024

Tässä artikkelissa kuvataan kieliasiantuntijan osallisuutta omakielisten käsitteiden ja termien valintaan ja vakiinnuttamiseen Ruotsin kansallisen terminologiakeskuksen toiminnan alkuvuosina 1940-luvulla. Tutkimuksen aineisto koostuu kirjemuotoisista asiantuntijalausunnoista, joiden pohjalta Tekniska nomenklaturcentralen (TNC, vuodesta 2000 Terminologicentrum) on antanut alakohtaisia suosituksiaan. Tutkimus osoittaa, että TNC:n ensimmäinen kieliasiantuntija Hans Reutercrona on nelivuotisen kautensa aikana vastannut 45 lausuntopyyntöön. Vastauksista 56 % on reflektoivia, ja niissä käsitellään 13 erikoisalan käsite- ja termikysymyksiä varsin laaja-alaisesti. Lyhyissä vastauksissa, joita on 44 %, ehdotukset on vain hyväksytty tai hylätty. Kieliasiantuntija nostaa esiin muun muassa sananmuodostukseen liittyviä analogioita, termien suhdetta yleiskielen sanoihin sekä niiden läpinäkyvyyttä ja alkuperää. Teknisten alojen asiantuntijoihin verrattuna kieliasiantuntijan ääni on erilainen, mutta se kuuluu yhtä lailla aina lopputulokseen asti.
Vems är rösten i den gamla schlagern?
Authors: Nordman Marianne
Published: November 2024

The material for this study consists of hit song lyrics written down by hand in Swedish in a number of waxcloth notebooks during the years 1959 to 1963 by an informant from Ostrobothnia. The aim of the present study is to analyze whose voice is heard in the songs in the different phases of the communication that runs from the author/translator of the text to the singer and to the receiving audience. Specifically the presence of male and female components is considered in the different phases. Four hit song lyrics are empirically analyzed as regards the voices represented in them using a hypothetical communication model. The analysis shows that the communication in the texts moves on several different levels with different senders and receivers depending on which level in the communication the person who performs the analysis finds herself.
Sanat ja puhumisen raja. Problemaattinen kommunikatiivinen muisti Raija Siekkisen lyhytproosatuotannossa
Authors: Oraharju Jarkko
Published: November 2024

Raija Siekkinen (1953–2004) was a Finnish author, who is known from her short stories and novelettes. In her works, the acts of speaking between the characters; the dialogue is often performed as problematic and unfluent. The spoken sentences are short and the characters seems to be suspicious of the use of words. I am writing my doctoral thesis of the themes of memory and remembering in Siekkinen´s short fiction. During this work I have noticed the acts of inner speech where a character reflects the role of the spoken words and their meaning in intersubjective communication and social relationships. In these acts, the characters also process the affectivity of their personal past. The speech about private memories and their sharing is often out of reach, which makes the memory communication problematic . In this article "Words and a border of speaking. The problematic communicative memory in the short fiction works of Raija Siekkinen" inner speech is illustrated as a character`s voice inside of the border of speaking, coming from an area of silence. The theoretical position for remembering and communicative memory comes from cultural memorystudies and from its discussions to literary representations of memory and the theme of metamemory. In this article the extracts from Siekkinen´s works are interpreted by close reading which aim is to understand the meanings which this inner speech is giving to social role of speaking and the position of the silent and how these inner speech acts reflect the complexity of the concept of the communicative memory.
Ääniä ja liikettä sarjakuvan ja elokuvan hybrideissä
Authors: Pitkäsalo Eliisa
Published: November 2024

Comics and films are multimodal forms of artistic expression communicating through the modes of the verbal, the visual and the aural. Comics include not only images and written texts but also different kinds of means of visual language of comics, such as graphic signs and sound effects, reinforcing the highlights of narration. These meaning-making features are also characteristic of films borrowing the visual means of comics. In my article, I examine the reading experience of artworks combining the means of film and comics: what happens during the course of reading or watching is of importance. This may concern, for example, the narrative time of comics performed in semi-animated form or the voices of a film completed with sound effects. I illustrate this phenomenon with fragments of the film Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (2010) and the motion comic Nick Carter – Il mistero dei 10 dollari (1972).
Käännänkö todella vai oikeastaan? Diskurssisanat semantiikan ja pragmatiikan rajamailla
Authors: Tommola Hannu
Published: November 2024

This paper is devoted to the problem of so-called discourse words, lexical units consisting of one or more words that are felt to be pragmatically significant even if they seem to lack a lexical meaning. The first part is a survey presenting some theoretic concepts suggested by a number of linguists. The second part comprises a brief report on a contrastive investigation into the Russian discourse words v samom dele "really" and na samom dele "actually", and their Finnish equivalents in a parallel corpus of Russian fiction texts and their translations into Finnish (ParRus located in Tampere). While there are several Finnish discourse words that can be used as correspondents for both, their distributions as translations of the two Russian lexemes (v samom dele and na samom dele) are radically different. The result is corroborated also by a collocation test using the data of the National corpus of the Russian language.
Lehrforschung und mehrsprachige Arbeitskommunikation. Ein hochschuldidaktisches Konzept zur Steigerung professioneller Kompetenzen
Authors: Reuter Ewald
Published: November 2024

At present, universities around the world are facing the challenge of bridging the gap between traditional, school-like methods of academic teaching and the new paradigm of de-schooled, research-based academic teaching. According to the current reform agenda, today’s academic teaching must meet scientific and occupational purposes at the same time. Within this context, the humanities – especially foreign language philologies – are often accused of not seriously taking into account the manifold post-academic needs of their students. Taking three examples from international German philology (Germany, Russia, Finland), this article demonstrates in detail how a distinctive approach to research-based academic teaching helps to successfully achieve the intertwined goals of producing both scientific and occupational qualifications. The Germersheim online encyclopaedia of literary translators (UeLEX) (1), the RussianGerman City Guide of Volgograd (2), and alumni tracer studies carried out in Tampere, Finland (3), illustrate cases of best practice showing how students may systematically expand their scientific and occupational competences while investigating multilingual workplace communication under the guidance of their teachers. In particular, the relevance of the students’ participation in the three ‘teaching doing research’ projects in terms of maintaining their profiles on social media (e.g. LinkedIn) is highlighted. Finally, the strengths and weaknesses of the research-based academic teaching approach presented in this article are discussed critically.
(O)lika? Två experters verksamhet inom ett terminologiskt nätverk
Authors: Landqvist Hans , Pilke Nina
Published: November 2024

Tämä tutkimus tarkastelee yhden alan asiantuntijan ja yhden kieliasiantuntijan osallistumista omakielisten käsitteiden ja termien valintaan ja vakiinnuttamiseen Ruotsin kansallisen terminologiakeskuksen toiminnassa 1940‒1983. Vertaamme asiantuntijoiden kommentointia määrällisesti ja laadullisesti induktiivisen luokittelun pohjalta. Aineisto koostuu kirjemuotoisista asiantuntijalausunnoista, joiden pohjalta Tekniska Nomenklaturcentralen (TNC) on antanut alakohtaisia suosituksiaan. Tutkimuksen tulokset osoittavat, että molemmat asiantuntijat ovat aktiivisia toimijoita lausuntoprosessissa. Kemian alan insinööri Halvard Liander on vastaanottanut 73 ja pohjoismaisten kielten professori Gösta Bergman 84 pyyntöä, joista he ovat jättäneet vastaamatta vain muutaman. Vastausten sisällön tarkastelu osoittaa, että 36 % Lianderin ja 51% Bergmanin vastauksista kuuluu pääkategoriaan Enkla svar siinä merkityksessä, että niissä hyväksytään annetut ehdotukset, ei oteta kantaa, kerrotaan mielipide parhaasta vaihtoehdosta tai ei ole huomauttamista. Bergman hyväksyy annetut ehdotukset useammin kuin Liander. Sisällöltään kattavammissa pääkategoriassa Utvecklade svar molemmat asiantuntijat pohtivat vastauksissaan useimmiten kielenkäyttöä.
Bergman ottaa useammin kantaa kieleen järjestelmänä ja Liander puolestaan kielenvälityksen aspekteihin eli esim. termivastineisiin.
Narrative Frames and Framing Narratives – The Role of Non-Journalists in Narrative News Discourse
Authors: Tuunanen Yrjö , Hirsto Heidi
Published: November 2024

Narrativity and transparency in news journalism can be seen as responses to the changing mediascape where various actors compete for claims to truth. However, the relationship of narrativity, transparency, and truth, is complex, and there is a need for studying their relations from the perspective of narrative persuasion. This article explores a form of narrative persuasion through which non-journalist participants may affect news discourse by importing content from outside the primary “news frames” and cueing into culturally recognizable “framing narratives”. It introduces a conceptual model for assessing narrative transparency and applies it to a case study of a political interview.
Pocket Democracy – Developing a User-Friendly App for Following Local Politics
Authors: Lindholm Jenny , Berg Janne
Published: November 2024

Democratic innovations have been suggested as one way of increasing public participation in political processes. Civic technology may provide resources for improving transparency, publicity, and accountability in political processes. This paper is about the development of a smartphone application that provides
users with information on municipal politics and representatives. We develop the application using a usercentered design approach. Thus, we establish its functions by hearing the end-users and considering their goals in the design process. We conducted three focus groups to find out what features end-users would
like to see in an app. Six features were present in all three focus group discussions: receiving information, expressing opinions, creating/answering polls, receiving notifications, following issues and receiving emergency messages.
O Translator, Where Art Thou? In-House Translators’ Physical Location and Organisational Position
Authors: Ruokonen Minna , Hjort Minna
Published: November 2024

This article analyses Finnish in-house translators’ experiences regarding physical location and organisational position. We examine how translators are positioned in the organisational structure of their workplace; where they are physically situated; and how satisfied they are in these respects. We also study whether the statutory status of Swedish as an official language is reflected in the results as compared to other languages translated in-house. The data come from a 2018 survey with 185 respondents. The analysis combines quantitative and qualitative methods. The results indicate that organisational position and physical location are intertwined. The respondents mostly work in the same location as their organisational unit and find their position optimal. Satisfaction with position was particularly high with translators placed within a communication related unit. The results show variety in whether the respondents prefer working close to other translators or to internal commissioners or other experts. The degree of telecommuting varies, with some in-house translators working entirely from home. The results for Swedish are in line with overall results for government translators. Lastly, we suggest further enquiry into topics such as office plans vs. job satisfaction, the motivations behind telecommuting, and links between translator status and agency and organisational position.
Five Readers on the Spot: A Case Study of Readings of Online News Items
Authors: Katajamäki Heli , Raatikainen Olli
Published: November 2024

The aim of this study is to discover how readers’ worldly knowledge (knowledge of the world through experiences and reading) influences their readings of online news. Readings refer in this study to readings on a practical level (the actual reading process, understanding content and evaluating the credibility of the news items) and interpretations of texts as contextual phenomena. The data were collected through eyetracking tests, questionnaires, and interviews with three inexperienced readers and two experienced newspaper readers. The study is based on Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis and Bhatia’s genre theory. The findings show differences in readings between the five readers. On a practical level, eye-tracking showed that while the inexperienced readers’ and the experienced readers’ reading speeds and reading strategies differ from each other, eye-tracking and the questions on the content proved that all readers have read and understood the text. The inexperienced readers’ interpretations concentrated more on the content than experienced readers’ interpretations. Besides this difference, we found that the interpretation of the inexperienced readers seemed unsure, whereas the interpretation of the experienced readers seemed either
partly overconfident and limitedly critical or self-conscious and critical. It became evident that for all readers their worldly knowledge formed the basis for their interpretations.
Institutionaalista tekstilajia laatimassa – Valtionhallinnon henkilöstön näkemyksiä vuosikertomuksen synnystä
Authors: Koskela Merja
Published: November 2024

The Finnish government reports of the results of state-owned enterprises annually to the Parliament. During the years 2007 to 2016 this was done in an independent report, while starting from 2017, the report on state ownership steering has been an annex to the government annual report. This specific type of report represents the established genre of annual report, but differs from it in many ways. The main difference is the context of public administration, which makes the report a place of negotiation for economic and political discourse. The aim of this article is to analyze how the practitioners producing the annual report of government ownership steering see the report and its production process as a part of the institutional practices of state administration. Drawing from genre theory, the article asks how the aim of the report is described, how the target group is defined, and what types of activities and roles of actors lie behind the process. In this way, a description of the foundations of an institutional genre and its mechanisms of change is produced. The data of the study consist of three thematic interviews with key actors involved in the process of producing the report. A content analysis was carried out in the data, and the results indicate that competing goals and varying target groups are identified for the genre. Moreover, it is evident that the change in genre status still steers the production process of the report two years after the change, which indicates that the stability of institutional genres resides in the processes and practices of the institutions in question.
Lärares interaktion i virtuell tandemundervisning
Authors: Hansell Katri , Pörn Michaela , Bäck Sandra
Published: November 2024

The development of digital tools for interaction has enabled computer-mediated communication as part of the communicative approach to language learning and teaching. This creates affordances for language learners to use their target language, e.g. through tandem language learning, that is, two-way learning in dyads of two students with different first languages. Previous studies on tandem language learning have mainly focused on the interaction between tandem partners in informal learning situations. In this paper, we scrutinise tandem learning applied to curriculum-based language teaching in combined physical and virtual learning environment (VLE). We describe the tandem teacher’s role by analysing teacher interactions in both environments. The data consist of video and screen recordings of teacher interactions. The results show that the teacher mainly observes, and seldom participates in interaction, especially in the VLE. In the physical classroom, the teacher focuses on facilitating through organizational tasks, and in the VLE acts as a language expert. Coaching the students in their roles in the tandem dyad is done in the physical classroom outside the actual tandem cooperation. The teacher interaction in virtual classroom tandem is notably narrower compared with both general classroom studies and tandem studies based entirely on face-to-face meetings in formal school context.
Integrating Terminological Methods into Special Language Teaching: A Case Study in Finland
Authors: Guedra Hamid , Nuopponen Anita
Published: November 2024

Tutkimuksen tavoitteena oli selvittää, miten korkeakoulutasoista ammattienglannin (English for Special Purposes, ESP) opetusta voidaan kehittää integroimalla terminologisia menetelmiä osaksi opetusta ja oppimistehtäviä. Tutkimus toteutettiin toimintatutkimuksena neljällä liiketalouden ja matkailun alan ammattienglannin opintojaksolla Lahden ammattikorkeakoulussa. Niitä varten laadittiin terminologisia menetelmiä englanniksi käsittelevä luentoaineisto ja oppimistehtävä. Opiskelijat laativat englanniksi kurssien aiheisiin liittyviä käsitejärjestelmiä kuvaavia graafisia esityksiä (satelliittimalleja) ja käsitteiden määritelmiä. Tulokset osoittivat, että opiskelijat osasivat soveltaa menetelmiä ja yhdistivät näin alan tietouden omaksumisen alan sanaston omaksumiseen. Toisaalta tutkimuksessa ilmeni kehittämiskohteita, mikä näkyi myös opiskelijoiden vastauksissa kyselyyn, jolla selvitettiin heidän näkemyksiään luentoaineistosta, oppimistehtävästä ja sovelletuista terminologisista menetelmistä. Opettajan tukea tarvittiin menetelmiin perehdyttäessä ja niitä sovellettaessa. Kun terminologisia menetelmiä sovelletaan ammattikielen opetuksen kontekstissa, opettajan tehtävä on sanaston ja sisältöjen välittämisen sijaan ohjata terminologisten menetelmien käyttöä. Opiskelijalle vastaavasti annetaan tilaa ottaa oman erikoisalansa asiantuntijan rooli.
Herausforderungen von Sprachmittlung im Berufsleben und in der akademischen Welt: Empfehlungen und Erfahrungen aus zwei binationalen Workshops
Authors: Chita Anna , Link Renate , Kraus Birgit
Published: November 2024

Language mediation is an integral part of daily life in the professional world. Therefore, graduates need to acquire respective skills, if possible, in foreign language classes or courses on transversal skills in higher education. The paper presents the background and concept of two Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) workshops on language mediation as well as results from two qualitative, explorative surveys among students of linguistics and business administration from Germany and Greece after the workshops. The aim is to illustrate how language mediation works online and across disciplines and how this digital setting makes a reflective approach possible as well. Previous experiences mentioned by students in the survey indicate once more the importance of language mediation for internationally oriented academic and professional contexts.
Technologies for Writing at the Private Sector Workplace
Authors: Lassus Jannika
Published: November 2024

Workplace literacy practices constitute the basis of today’s increasingly textualised work life. Due to the legislation on trade secrets, less research has been conducted on literacy practices in the private sector. This interview study of reported literacy practices focused on the software, dictionaries and other technologies used in writing tasks in 11 different businesses in Finland. The informants (n=18) were Swedish-speaking Finns working in the Helsinki area and in Vaasa. The study showed that office software (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) is used for writing, as is email clients, chats and messaging systems. When encountering difficulties in writing, asking a colleague for help is a frequent strategy, together with searching the internet using Google. More established dictionaries, glossaries, and synonym web sites are also used, but to a lesser extent. The findings suggest implications for teaching at different levels: students could be trained in complex and multilingual text production, to efficiently use the widely used office software and to assess content in free dictionaries and on similar websites from a linguistic point of view.
Äidinkielenomaisen ruotsin oppimäärän kartoitustutkimus
Authors: Heittola Sanna , Henricson Sofie
Published: November 2024

The school system in Finland is primarily divided into Finnish-medium and Swedish-medium schools, where pupils with Finnish as first language as a rule attend Finnish-medium schools while pupils with Swedish as first language attend Swedish-medium schools. In both Finnish- and Swedish-medium schools, there are also bilingual pupils, with Finnish and Swedish as their first languages. Since 2004, the national curriculum includes a school subject intended for these bilingual pupils at Finnish-medium schools, although only few of them are given the chance to study this subject and thus to participate in teaching that would deepen their Swedish skills and strengthen their bilingual identity. Our study shows that neither principals nor Swedish teachers are even familiar with this syllabus and they are thus not fully acquainted with the official language policy of the national curriculum. These findings show that there is a gap between the official language policy expressed in the national curriculum and the language practices of the schools. Our results further indicate that the language practices for teaching bilingual pupils vary a lot. In the few schools that offer the Swedish syllabus intended for bilingual pupils, the teaching is put into practice in different ways, e.g., through differentiated teaching within mixed groups or by forming specific teaching groups for bilingual pupils. Our research shows a clear need for more knowledge about and promotion of this under-researched and largely unknown syllabus.