Studia Fennica Linguistica

On the Border of Language and Dialect

This volume considers the linguistic borders between a language and a dialect as well as the administrative, cultural, and mental borders that affect the linguistic ones. The articles approach mental borders between dialects, dialect continua, and areas...

Linking Clauses and Actions in Social Interaction

This volume is intended as a reader for students and scholars working in the field of grammar and interaction. It deals with ways in which verbal and non-verbal actions are combined and linked in everyday conversation, in institutional contexts, and in written journalism...

The Finnish Case System

Cognitive Linguistic Perspectives

The Finnish language is perhaps best known for its rich case system. Depending on the definition of a case, Finnish has at least fourteen, possibly fifteen or even more cases. This volume is the first comprehensive English-language account of the Finnish...

Sociolinguistic Variation in Urban Linguistic Landscapes

Urban linguistic landscapes reflect and create sociolinguistic, societal and urban dynamics. This book explores these relations scientifically and, focusing on the linguistic landscapes of selected cities in northern and southern Europe, sheds light on...

Registers of Communication

In any society, communicative activities are organized into models of conduct that differentiate specific social practices from each other and enable people to communicate with each other in ways distinctive to those practices...

Conversation Analytic Perspectives to Digital Interaction

Practices, Resources, and Affordances

When do people greet each other on WhatsApp? How do people start chats on Tinder? How are emotions displayed in video-mediated workplace interaction? How do people converse with a social robot? This volume offers a state-of-the-art collection of article...

Talk in Interaction

Comparative Dimensions

Talk in interaction - Comparative dimensions is a collection of current conversation analytical work on interactional practices. How do speakers correct the errors made by other speakers? How is disappointment expressed in interaction? How are disputes...

Representations of Finnishness in Sweden

More than half a million Swedes - one in twenty - is of Finnish descent. This book explores Finnishness, multilingualism and identities of young people with Finnish background in Sweden. What does it mean to grow up in a Finnish family in Sweden? Who...

Registers of Communication

In any society, communicative activities are organized into models of conduct that differentiate specific social practices from each other and enable people to communicate with each other in ways distinctive to those practices...

Minimal reference

The use of pronouns in Finnish and Estonian discourse

This book presents some of the most recent research on Finnish and Estonian pronouns and other minimal forms of reference. The articles deal with features particular to the pronoun systems of Finnic languages, such as logophoricity and the use of demonstratives...

Names in Focus

An Introduction to Finnish Onomastics

Names in Focus delves deep into the vast field of Finnish onomastics, covering place names, personal names, animal names, commercial names and names in literature. It provides the history and current trends in this area of research, and also supplements...

On toponymic constructions as an alternative to naming patterns in describing Finnish lake names

Monitieteinen artikkeliväitöskirja yhdistää nimistöntutkimukseen tietojenkäsittelytieteen menetelmiä ja tarkastelee tuloksia kognitiivisen kielentutkimuksen kautta. Tutkimus lähtee peruskartan järvennimien analyysistä, jonka tarkoituksena on löytää säännönmukaisesti...

Edhina Ekogidho - Names as Links

The Encounter between African and European Anthroponymic Systems among the Ambo People in Namibia

What are the most popular names of the Ambo people in Namibia? Why do so many Ambos have Finnish first names? What do the African names of these people mean? Why is the namesake so important in Ambo culture? How did the nation's long struggle for independence...