Terhi Ainiala
Biographic Data
| ID | 1264729 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Terhi Ainiala |
| GIVEN NAMES | Terhi |
| FAMILY NAME | Ainiala |
| SIGNATURE | AINIALA T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4998-9983 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Different languages, different landscapes? Exploring linguistic differences in landscape conceptualizations
The goal of the research was to assess whether landscape conceptualization systematically differed across European languages in the context of the linguistic relativity debate. We examined the generalizability of previous findings and evaluated the limits of used methodologies, drawing on a large and diverse sample of 14 languages across 5 linguistic families in Eastern Europe (Slavic, Baltic, Uralic, Romance, Hellenic). Participants were asked t…
Place branding and translocal chronotopes in Finnish municipality slogans
Mapping Digital Discourses of the Capital Region of Finland
This article discusses the three Finnish city names Helsinki, Espoo, and Vantaa, and the urban discourses that surround them. The study reveals patterns of socio-spatial differentiation by examining what meanings people attach to these capital region cities and investigating how these meanings are expressed in online discourses. Using the methodological approach of corpus-assisted onomastics (CAO), this study incorporates onomastics, geographical…
Aspects of localness
This article examines the localness of commercial names in Finland and focusses specifically on the names of grill food kiosks and products. There are two research objectives: firstly, to determine the number of local names that occur in the material, and secondly, to analyse how these names work as indexes of localness. This article explores the claim by sociolinguist Barbara Johnstone that particular linguistic forms can index meanings along a …
A slightly slummier area? Negotiations of place-bound identities through social spatializations and unofficial toponyms
In the article, spatializations (discourses of ideal or stereotyped spaces) are conceptualized as powerful discourses of the surrounding society, providing resources for place-bound identity construction in interaction. We combine a sociolinguistic analysis with Bakhtinian dialogism to understand how such "third" voices in dialogue empower and pluralize self- and other-positionings embedded in the evocations of unofficial place names. Empirically…
Toponyms as Prompts for Presencing Place—Making Oneself at Home in Kjell Westö’s Helsinki
Research Article| July 01 2018 Toponyms as Prompts for Presencing Place—Making Oneself at Home in Kjell Westö's Helsinki Lieven Ameel; Lieven Ameel University of Helsinki Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Terhi Ainiala Terhi Ainiala University of Helsinki Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scandinavian Studies (2018) 90 (2): 195–210. https://doi.org/10.5406/scanstud.90.2.0195 Cite Icon Cite Share I…
Socio-onomastics
The volume seeks to establish socio-onomastics as a field of linguistic inquiry not only within sociolinguistics, but also, and in particular, within pragmatics. The linguistic study of names has a very long history, but also a history sometimes fraught with skepticism, and thus often neglected by linguists in other fields. The volume takes on the challenge of instituting onomastic study into linguistics and pragmatics by focusing on recent trend…
On a New Project in the Study of Anthroponymic Systems in Finnic Languages
О новом проекте по изучению антропонимических систем в финно-угорских языках - Institutional repository of Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Professional Education Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N.Yeltsin
Names in Society
This handbook offers an up-to-date account of the state of the art in different areas of onomastics, in a format that is both useful for specialists and accessible to the general reader. International experts examine name theory, place and personal names, names in literature, socio-onomastics, names and other disciplines, and other types of names
Names in the Economy
The economy has an increasingly powerful role in the contemporary global world. Academic scholars who study names have recognised this, and, as such, onomastic research has expanded from personal and place names towards names that reflect the new commercial culture. Companies are aware of the significance of naming. Brand, product and company names play an important role in business. Culture produces names and names produce culture. Commercial na…
Industrial urbanization, working-class lads and slang toponyms in early twentieth-century Helsinki
The article investigates the linkages between urban transformation and informal verbalizations of everyday spaces among male juveniles from Sörnäinen (a working-class district in Helsinki) in 1900–39. Sörkka lads' biographically and contextually varying uses of slang names mirrored their itineraries across the city in the search of earning and spare-time opportunities. As a simultaneously practical and stylistic street language, the uses of slang…
The Change in Planned Nomenclature in Vuosaari, Helsinki
A slightly slummier area? Negotiations of place-bound identities through social spatializations and unofficial toponyms
In the article, spatializations (discourses of ideal or stereotyped spaces) are conceptualized as powerful discourses of the surrounding society, providing resources for place-bound identity construction in interaction. We combine a sociolinguistic analysis with Bakhtinian dialogism to understand how such "third" voices in dialogue empower and pluralize self- and other-positionings embedded in the evocations of unofficial place names. Empirically…
Industrial urbanization, working-class lads and slang toponyms in early twentieth-century Helsinki
The article investigates the linkages between urban transformation and informal verbalizations of everyday spaces among male juveniles from Sörnäinen (a working-class district in Helsinki) in 1900–39. Sörkka lads' biographically and contextually varying uses of slang names mirrored their itineraries across the city in the search of earning and spare-time opportunities. As a simultaneously practical and stylistic street language, the uses of slang…
Place branding and translocal chronotopes in Finnish municipality slogans
Toponyms as Prompts for Presencing Place—Making Oneself at Home in Kjell Westö’s Helsinki
Research Article| July 01 2018 Toponyms as Prompts for Presencing Place—Making Oneself at Home in Kjell Westö's Helsinki Lieven Ameel; Lieven Ameel University of Helsinki Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Terhi Ainiala Terhi Ainiala University of Helsinki Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scandinavian Studies (2018) 90 (2): 195–210. https://doi.org/10.5406/scanstud.90.2.0195 Cite Icon Cite Share I…
The Change in Planned Nomenclature in Vuosaari, Helsinki
Industrial urbanization, working-class lads and slang toponyms in early twentieth-century Helsinki
The article investigates the linkages between urban transformation and informal verbalizations of everyday spaces among male juveniles from Sörnäinen (a working-class district in Helsinki) in 1900–39. Sörkka lads' biographically and contextually varying uses of slang names mirrored their itineraries across the city in the search of earning and spare-time opportunities. As a simultaneously practical and stylistic street language, the uses of slang…
Names in the Economy
The economy has an increasingly powerful role in the contemporary global world. Academic scholars who study names have recognised this, and, as such, onomastic research has expanded from personal and place names towards names that reflect the new commercial culture. Companies are aware of the significance of naming. Brand, product and company names play an important role in business. Culture produces names and names produce culture. Commercial na…
Names in Society
This handbook offers an up-to-date account of the state of the art in different areas of onomastics, in a format that is both useful for specialists and accessible to the general reader. International experts examine name theory, place and personal names, names in literature, socio-onomastics, names and other disciplines, and other types of names
Socio-onomastics
The volume seeks to establish socio-onomastics as a field of linguistic inquiry not only within sociolinguistics, but also, and in particular, within pragmatics. The linguistic study of names has a very long history, but also a history sometimes fraught with skepticism, and thus often neglected by linguists in other fields. The volume takes on the challenge of instituting onomastic study into linguistics and pragmatics by focusing on recent trend…
On a New Project in the Study of Anthroponymic Systems in Finnic Languages
О новом проекте по изучению антропонимических систем в финно-угорских языках - Institutional repository of Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Professional Education Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N.Yeltsin
Toponyms as Prompts for Presencing Place—Making Oneself at Home in Kjell Westö’s Helsinki
Research Article| July 01 2018 Toponyms as Prompts for Presencing Place—Making Oneself at Home in Kjell Westö's Helsinki Lieven Ameel; Lieven Ameel University of Helsinki Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Terhi Ainiala Terhi Ainiala University of Helsinki Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scandinavian Studies (2018) 90 (2): 195–210. https://doi.org/10.5406/scanstud.90.2.0195 Cite Icon Cite Share I…
A slightly slummier area? Negotiations of place-bound identities through social spatializations and unofficial toponyms
In the article, spatializations (discourses of ideal or stereotyped spaces) are conceptualized as powerful discourses of the surrounding society, providing resources for place-bound identity construction in interaction. We combine a sociolinguistic analysis with Bakhtinian dialogism to understand how such "third" voices in dialogue empower and pluralize self- and other-positionings embedded in the evocations of unofficial place names. Empirically…
Aspects of localness
This article examines the localness of commercial names in Finland and focusses specifically on the names of grill food kiosks and products. There are two research objectives: firstly, to determine the number of local names that occur in the material, and secondly, to analyse how these names work as indexes of localness. This article explores the claim by sociolinguist Barbara Johnstone that particular linguistic forms can index meanings along a …
Mapping Digital Discourses of the Capital Region of Finland
This article discusses the three Finnish city names Helsinki, Espoo, and Vantaa, and the urban discourses that surround them. The study reveals patterns of socio-spatial differentiation by examining what meanings people attach to these capital region cities and investigating how these meanings are expressed in online discourses. Using the methodological approach of corpus-assisted onomastics (CAO), this study incorporates onomastics, geographical…
Place branding and translocal chronotopes in Finnish municipality slogans
Different languages, different landscapes? Exploring linguistic differences in landscape conceptualizations
The goal of the research was to assess whether landscape conceptualization systematically differed across European languages in the context of the linguistic relativity debate. We examined the generalizability of previous findings and evaluated the limits of used methodologies, drawing on a large and diverse sample of 14 languages across 5 linguistic families in Eastern Europe (Slavic, Baltic, Uralic, Romance, Hellenic). Participants were asked t…
Linguistics (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Toponymy (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Onomastics (5 works) · History (4 works) · Names, Identity, and Discrimination Research (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (3 works)