Lea Laitinen’s article deals with the grammar and meaning of Finnish constructions containing the so-called ‘zero person’ subject. In these constructions, there is no overt subject, and the verb is in the 3rd person singular form. The meanings of the construction are investigated in conversational data, and its globally marked non-specific reference is compared to the non-specific use of personal pronouns, used as generic forms referring to humans in many languages. As crystallizations of human experience, the zero person constructions express changes of state, emotions, perceptions, or other processes that affect human beings in particular situations. Laitinen shows how this potentiality of grammar is used in interaction by the speech act participants, and how these constructions which leave the conceptualizer of the situation implicit, provide a more subjective perspective on the experience than explicit personal pronouns. This paper has implications for the understanding of impersonal use of pronouns, non-specific pronominal reference, and zero persons in languages generally.
Etelämäki, Marja, Liisa Voutilainen & Elina Weiste
2021. Distributing Agency and Experience in Therapeutic Interaction: Person References in Therapists' Responses to Complaints. Frontiers in Psychology 12
Halonen, Mia & Marja-Leena Sorjonen
2008. Usingniin-interrogative to treat the prior speaker's action as an exaggeration. Discourse Studies 10:1 ► pp. 37 ff.
Koskinen, Emmi, Pentti Henttonen, Sanna Kie Kettunen, Sanna Pesonen, Matias Piispanen, Liisa Voutilainen, Mariel Wuolio & Anssi Peräkylä
2024. Shame in social interaction: Descriptions of experiences of shame by participants with high or low levels of narcissistic traits. British Journal of Social Psychology
2012. Syntactically Non-Integrated FinnishJos‘If’-Conditional Clauses as Directives. Discourse Processes 49:3-4 ► pp. 213 ff.
Logren, Aija, Johanna Ruusuvuori & Jaana Laitinen
2017. Self-reflective talk in group counselling. Discourse Studies 19:4 ► pp. 422 ff.
Logren, Aija, Johanna Ruusuvuori & Jaana Laitinen
2020. Stories of Change: Comparative Time-Framed Experience Telling in Health Promotion Group Discussions. Qualitative Health Research 30:2 ► pp. 279 ff.
Määttä, Simo K., Karita Suomalainen & Ulla Tuomarla
2021. Everyday discourse as a space of citizenship: the linguistic construction of in-groups and out-groups in online discussion boards. Citizenship Studies 25:6 ► pp. 773 ff.
Paananen, Jenny & Camilla Lindholm
2023. Discussing physical restrictions in care plan meetings between family members of residents with dementia and nursing home staff. Dementia 22:7 ► pp. 1530 ff.
2020. Discourses on encountering multilingual learners in Finnish schools. Linguistics and Education 60 ► pp. 100864 ff.
Stevanovic, Melisa
2012. Establishing joint decisions in a dyad. Discourse Studies 14:6 ► pp. 779 ff.
Stevanovic, Melisa
2021. Deontic authority and the maintenance of lay and expert identities during joint decision making: Balancing resistance and compliance. Discourse Studies 23:5 ► pp. 670 ff.
Sylak-Glassman, John, Christo Kirov, Matt Post, Roger Que & David Yarowsky
2015. A Universal Feature Schema for Rich Morphological Annotation and Fine-Grained Cross-Lingual Part-of-Speech Tagging. In Systems and Frameworks for Computational Morphology [Communications in Computer and Information Science, 537], ► pp. 72 ff.
Vatanen, Anna
2023. Embodied Noticings as Repair Initiations: On Multiactivity in Choir Rehearsals. In Complexity of Interaction, ► pp. 99 ff.
Visapää, Laura
2021. Self-description in everyday interaction: Generalizations about oneself as accounts of behavior. Discourse Studies 23:3 ► pp. 339 ff.
Visapää, Laura
2022. Infinitives of affect and intersubjectivity: on the indexical interpretation of the Finnish independent infinitives. Cognitive Linguistics 33:3 ► pp. 521 ff.
Vuolteenaho, Jani, Hanna Lappalainen & Terhi Ainiala
2019. A slightly slummier area? Negotiations of place‐bound identities through social spatializations and unofficial toponyms. Journal of Sociolinguistics 23:2 ► pp. 140 ff.
Wide, Camilla, Hanna Lappalainen, Anu Rouhikoski, Catrin Norrby, Camilla Lindholm, Jan Lindström & Jenny Nilsson
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