The Finnish logophoric pronoun &lt;i&gt;hän&lt;/i&gt;: a quantitative approach

Priiki, Katri

doi:10.12697/jeful.2017.8.2.11

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“…The use of Finnish third-person pronouns to refer to humans in spoken language has been well documented -scholars have studied dialects and contemporary conversations (Vilppula 1989;Laitinen 2005;Siitonen 2008;Lappalainen 2010;Priiki 2017aPriiki , 2017b. In old dialects, as well as in contemporary speech, hän is often used in the context of reported speech to refer to the original speaker or thinker or to someone whose viewpoint is being taken.…”

Section: Finnish Third-person Pronouns and The Human-nonhuman Dichotomymentioning

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Pets as family members: Conflicting practices in the use of third-person pronouns to refer to companion animals in written biographical stories in Finnish

Priiki

2023

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In many languages, the category of ‘humans’ is linguistically separate from other animals. In Standard Finnish, for example, separate pronouns are used. Companion animals in modern societies, in a way, falls between humans and animals, since people often consider them as distinct persons and family members. The article examines how Finnish writers waver between these two pronouns in references to pets in biographical stories. Although the writers aim at following Standard Finnish norms in most other aspects, one out of three writers uses personal pronouns to refer to animals. Many writers humanize pets in other ways but do not deviate from the pronoun norm. For them, the idea of standard language seems to override the possibility of expressing attitudes towards animals with pronoun choice. Others adopt pronoun variation as a stylistic effect, or the colloquial system with perspective taking as the reason for pronoun variation conveyed to the texts. Kokkuvõte. Katri Priiki: Lemmikloomad nagu pereliikmed: lemmikloomadele viitavate pronoomenite vastuoluline kasutamine soomekeelsetes elulugudes. Paljudes keeltes eristatakse inimesi ja loomi grammatiliselt. Soome standardkeeles kasutatakse inimeste ja loomade kohta erinevaid pronoomeneid. Artiklis uuritakse, kuidas mitteprofessionaalsed soome keeles kirjutajad vahetavad biograafilistes tekstides lemmikloomadele viitavaid pronoomeneid. Kaasaegses ühiskonnas jäävad lemmikloomad mõnes mõttes inimese ja teiste loomade vahele, sest inimesed peavad neid sageli omaette isikuks ja oma pere liikmeks. Kuigi kirjutajad järgivad üldiselt soome keele standardnorme, kasutab üks kolmest kirjutajast lemmikloomadele viitamiseks isikulist asesõna. Ülejäänud humaniseerivad lemmikloomi muul viisil ega kaldu pronoomenite kasutusnormidest kõrvale. Isikuliste asesõnade hän ’tema’ ja he ’nad’ kasutamine tekstides on mõjutatud mitmetest teguritest: soome kõnekeelest, võõrkeeltest, eriti inglise keelest, ja lemmikloomade muutuvast staatusest.

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Section: Finnish Third-person Pronouns and The Human-nonhuman Dichotomymentioning

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Pets as family members: Conflicting practices in the use of third-person pronouns to refer to companion animals in written biographical stories in Finnish

Priiki

2023

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“…Myös logoforisuus eli käyttö referoinnissa viittaamassa alkuperäiseen puhujaan (esim. N1958b: ja tota äiti sano et hänel ol aina hirvee paha olla) on keskeinen hänpronominin esiintymistä selittävä tekijä (Ylikahri 1996;Laitinen 2005;Priiki 2016bPriiki , 2017b. Virittyneisyydellä (engl.…”

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“…Logoforisuus eli käyttö referoidussa katkelmassa viittaamassa alkuperäiseen puhujaan on aiemmissa tutkimuksissa todettu keskeiseksi hän-pronominin esiintymistä selittäväksi tekijäksi (Priiki 2016b(Priiki , 2017b. Tarkastelemassamme haastatteluaineistossa logoforisia tapauksia on vain muutama, ja olemme jättäneet ne tarkastelun ulkopuolelle ja pois laskelmista.…”

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“…Houkuttelevaa olisi tutkia myös muita ikäryhmiä niin tämän hankkeen haastatteluista kuin muistakin aineistoista. Haastatteluaineisto edustaa omaa lajityyppiään esimerkiksi siinä, että logoforisia pronomineja, jotka aiempien tutkimusten (Priiki 2016b(Priiki , 2017bks. myös Nenonen 2020: 47-50) mukaan muodostavat arkisemmassa vuorovaikutuksessa merkittävän osan hän-ja he-pronominien käytöstä, esiintyy haastatteluissa vain vähän.…”

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Yksilöllisiä valintoja ja kielitaustan vaikutusta – henkilöviitteiset hän-, he-, se- ja ne-pronominit kielielämäkertahaastatteluissa

Priiki

Lappalainen

2022

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The article examines variation in the use of the third-person pronouns hän and he (standard forms for human references) vs. se and ne (standard forms for non-human references) when referring to people in the interviews collected during the project “A Hundred Finnish Linguistic Life Stories” in 2017–2018. The focus is on two age groups, born in the 1950s and 1990s, and the data includes 32 interviews of people from different social and regional backgrounds. Eight of the interviewees spoke Finnish as their second language. The data is examined both quantitatively (with statistical methods) and qualitatively. The results show that there is considerable variation between individual speakers. Speakers with higher education born in the 1950s were the only relatively homogenous group in the data: they consistently preferred hän and he in the interviews when referring to human subjects. In the younger age group, being an L2 speaker appeared to be one of the factors affecting pronoun choices.

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“…All the demonstrative pronouns may be used either independently or adnominally, and, in colloquial speech, they are often used to refer to people even though Standard Finnish has a separate third person personal pronoun, hän 'he, she'. In colloquial style, however, hän is used mostly logophorically, referring to a speaker of a reported utterance (see Laitinen 2005, Priiki 2017b, and the neutral anaphoric way of referring to people is se 'it'.…”

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The Finnish tail construction as a first mention

Priiki

2020

Nord J Linguist

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This article examines the Finnish tail construction (right dislocation) used as a first mention of a referent and the variation of the demonstrative pronouns tämä ‘this’, tuo ‘that’, and se ‘it’ in the construction. Many previous studies have suggested that tail construction (TC) referents are highly active and thus already mentioned and salient in a conversation. However, in Finnish, the TC may introduce new referents into a conversation, and this article provides an empirical analysis of how and why this is done. First-mention TCs are often evaluations or questions in which the proposition links the utterance to the preceding context. When presenting new information, the TC allows the speaker to present a potentially lengthy lexical definition of a new referent at the end of the utterance, avoiding the additional emphatic meanings or unwanted implications a simply inverted word order might create.

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The Finnish logophoric pronoun <i>hän</i>: a quantitative approach

Cited by 3 publications

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Pets as family members: Conflicting practices in the use of third-person pronouns to refer to companion animals in written biographical stories in Finnish

Pets as family members: Conflicting practices in the use of third-person pronouns to refer to companion animals in written biographical stories in Finnish

Yksilöllisiä valintoja ja kielitaustan vaikutusta – henkilöviitteiset hän-, he-, se- ja ne-pronominit kielielämäkertahaastatteluissa

The Finnish tail construction as a first mention

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