Funded publications
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Talk in interaction: Comparative dimensions
(2009)
"During the recent decades Conversation Analysis has developed into a distinctive method for analyzing talk in interaction. The method is utilized in several disciplines sharing an interest in social interaction, like ...
The emergence of Finnish book and reading culture in the 1700s
(2011)
"Book culture has emerged as an extremely dynamic and border-crossing field of research, internationally and in Finland. The editors and most of the writers of this book were members of the organizing and program committees ...
Strategies of Sanity and Survival: Religious Responses to Natural Disasters in the Middle Ages
(2002)
It is an unusual book in many respects. It is a specific study based on original and in most cases unedited sources, but it can also be read as a general introduction. It crosses boundaries between different fields of ...
Minimal reference: The use of pronouns in Finnish and Estonian discourse
(2005)
"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 ...
White Field, black seeds: Nordic literacy practices in the long nineteenth century
(2013)
"White field, black seeds – who can sow? Although the riddle from which this these words are taken comes from oral tradition, it refers to the ability to write, a skill which in most Nordic countries was not regarded as ...
Linking Clauses and Actions in Social Interaction
(2017)
"This volume concerns the ways in which verbal and non-verbal actions are combined and linked in a range of contexts in everyday conversation, in institutional contexts, and in written journalism. The volume includes an ...
Myth and Mentality: Studies in Folklore and Popular Thought
(2002)
"The recent fascination in Finnish folklore studies with popular thought and the values and emotions encoded in oral tradition began with the realisation that the vast collections of the Finnish folklore archives still ...
Genre - text - interpretation: Multidisciplinary perspectives on folklore and beyond
(2016)
"This book presents current discussions on the concept of genre. It introduces innovative, multidisciplinary approaches to contemporary and historical genres, their roles in cultural discourse, how they change, and their ...
Nodes of Contemporary Finnish Literature
(2012)
This book examines phenomena from Finnish and Finnish-Swedish literature written in the years between the 1980s and the first decade of the new millennium. Its objective is to study this interesting era of literary history ...
Gendered Rural Spaces
(2009)
Rural spaces are connected with different cultural, economic, social and political codes and meanings. In this book these meanings are analysed trough gender. The articles concretely show the process of producing gender ...
Rhetorics of Nordic democracy
(2010)
"Democracy is today a concept that is overwhelmingly positively evaluated almost everywhere. A lot has been written about socio-economic and cultural backgrounds of democratic regimes as well as their institutional settings. ...
Hidden rituals and public performances: Traditions and belonging among the post-Soviet Khanty, Komi and Udmurts
(2011)
Why are Khanty shamans still active? What are the folklore collectives of Komi? Why are the rituals of Udmurts performed at cultural festivals? In their insightful ethnographic study Anna-Leena Siikala and Oleg Ulyashev ...
Changing Scenes: Encounters between European and Finnish Fin de Siècle
(2003)
"Six articles in Changing scenes represent the ongoing reassessment of fin de siècle literature in Finnish research. The period was seen in earlier research as something of a national renaissance or golden age and interpreted ...