Helka Riionheimo
Biographic Data
| ID | 2014565 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helka Riionheimo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helka |
| FAMILY NAME | Riionheimo |
| SIGNATURE | RIIONHEIMO H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Eastern Finland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9294-6201 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Reclaiming Karelian in Finland
Karelian is a small Finnic language, the closest cognate of Finnish, spoken in Finland and Russia. At present an autochthonous, nonregional minority language in Finland, its numbers have been rapidly decreasing since World War II, making it severely endangered. Countermeasures have been taken by the Karelian community, and from the 2010s, Finland has directed some public funds for the revitalization of Karelian. This article describes the present…
Introduction: Migration and linguistic diversification
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Diversification in time and space and how it is perceived: Applying a folk linguistic listening task with Tver’ Karelians
In this article we apply a folk linguistic listening task to examine how the Tver’ Karelians in Russia recognise a sample of their own dialect and a sample of Border Karelian (spoken in Finland), both recorded about 60 years ago. Tver’ Karelian and Border Karelian have a shared origin in Proto-Karelian but have been diverging from each other since the seventeenth century; the former has had strong influence from Russian and the latter from Finnis…
Language diversification in the Nordic languages
The aim of this NJL special issue will be to analyse empirically how migration, living in isolation and encounters with other languages affect the structure of a language variety and ultimately give rise to the emergence of new varieties. By LANGUAGE DIVERSIFICATION, we refer here to complex, longlasting processes which arise in situations where a part of a speech community is isolated from the other parts due to, for example, migration or a shif…
Translating into an endangered language: Filling in lexical gaps as Language Making
In this article, we analyse translation in the context of revitalisation from the point of view of Language Making. Both translation and revitalisation are based on the idea of languages as distinct entities, and together they are doubly inclined to draw clear-cut borders between languages. The data come from a series of translation courses targeted at speakers and learners of Karelian, a critically endangered Finnic language spoken in Finland an…
Introduction: Receptive multilingualism
This special issue of the Nordic Journal of Linguistics is devoted to receptive multilingualism (RM), and includes papers presented in the conference Receptive Multilingualism: Multilingual Resources in the Service of Mutual Understanding, held at the University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, in 2015. RM refers to a language contact situation in which hearers’ or readers’ understanding of a non-native language is based on their skills in either the…
The emergence of Finnish-Estonian bilingual constructions in two contact settings
In this paper, we investigate the emergence of bilingual constructions in conversational data from two groups of first generation Finns living in Estonia: 1) students and migrant workers who had been living in Estonia 0–17 years at the time the data was collected between 2002 and 2011; and 2) Ingrian Finns, who migrated to Soviet Estonia around World War II and had been living in the country for more than 50 years at the time of recording in the …
Bilingual voicing: A study of code-switching in the reported speech of Finnish immigrants in Estonia
Through a conversation analytic investigation of Finnish–Estonian bilingual (direct) reported speech (i.e., voicing) by Finns who live in Estonia, this study shows how code-switching is used as a double contextualization device. The code-switched voicings are shaped by the on-going interactional situation, serving its needs by opening up a context where the participants can engage in activities such as assessing the voice-persona, and renewing th…
Multiple roots of innovations in language contact: Evidence from morphological intermingling in contact between Ingrian Finnish and Estonian
This article approaches the origin of multilingual innovations in language contact by presenting data from an intensive contact situation between two closely related Finnic languages, Finnish and Estonian. This situation between languages that have complex interconnected morphological systems often leads to the emergence of structures that contain material from both languages. The origin of these structures is discussed in the light of two basic …
Bilingual voicing: A study of code-switching in the reported speech of Finnish immigrants in Estonia
Through a conversation analytic investigation of Finnish–Estonian bilingual (direct) reported speech (i.e., voicing) by Finns who live in Estonia, this study shows how code-switching is used as a double contextualization device. The code-switched voicings are shaped by the on-going interactional situation, serving its needs by opening up a context where the participants can engage in activities such as assessing the voice-persona, and renewing th…
Translating into an endangered language: Filling in lexical gaps as Language Making
In this article, we analyse translation in the context of revitalisation from the point of view of Language Making. Both translation and revitalisation are based on the idea of languages as distinct entities, and together they are doubly inclined to draw clear-cut borders between languages. The data come from a series of translation courses targeted at speakers and learners of Karelian, a critically endangered Finnic language spoken in Finland an…
The emergence of Finnish-Estonian bilingual constructions in two contact settings
In this paper, we investigate the emergence of bilingual constructions in conversational data from two groups of first generation Finns living in Estonia: 1) students and migrant workers who had been living in Estonia 0–17 years at the time the data was collected between 2002 and 2011; and 2) Ingrian Finns, who migrated to Soviet Estonia around World War II and had been living in the country for more than 50 years at the time of recording in the …
Bilingual voicing: A study of code-switching in the reported speech of Finnish immigrants in Estonia
Through a conversation analytic investigation of Finnish–Estonian bilingual (direct) reported speech (i.e., voicing) by Finns who live in Estonia, this study shows how code-switching is used as a double contextualization device. The code-switched voicings are shaped by the on-going interactional situation, serving its needs by opening up a context where the participants can engage in activities such as assessing the voice-persona, and renewing th…
Multiple roots of innovations in language contact: Evidence from morphological intermingling in contact between Ingrian Finnish and Estonian
This article approaches the origin of multilingual innovations in language contact by presenting data from an intensive contact situation between two closely related Finnic languages, Finnish and Estonian. This situation between languages that have complex interconnected morphological systems often leads to the emergence of structures that contain material from both languages. The origin of these structures is discussed in the light of two basic …
Bilingual voicing: A study of code-switching in the reported speech of Finnish immigrants in Estonia
Through a conversation analytic investigation of Finnish–Estonian bilingual (direct) reported speech (i.e., voicing) by Finns who live in Estonia, this study shows how code-switching is used as a double contextualization device. The code-switched voicings are shaped by the on-going interactional situation, serving its needs by opening up a context where the participants can engage in activities such as assessing the voice-persona, and renewing th…
The emergence of Finnish-Estonian bilingual constructions in two contact settings
In this paper, we investigate the emergence of bilingual constructions in conversational data from two groups of first generation Finns living in Estonia: 1) students and migrant workers who had been living in Estonia 0–17 years at the time the data was collected between 2002 and 2011; and 2) Ingrian Finns, who migrated to Soviet Estonia around World War II and had been living in the country for more than 50 years at the time of recording in the …
Introduction: Receptive multilingualism
This special issue of the Nordic Journal of Linguistics is devoted to receptive multilingualism (RM), and includes papers presented in the conference Receptive Multilingualism: Multilingual Resources in the Service of Mutual Understanding, held at the University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, in 2015. RM refers to a language contact situation in which hearers’ or readers’ understanding of a non-native language is based on their skills in either the…
Language diversification in the Nordic languages
The aim of this NJL special issue will be to analyse empirically how migration, living in isolation and encounters with other languages affect the structure of a language variety and ultimately give rise to the emergence of new varieties. By LANGUAGE DIVERSIFICATION, we refer here to complex, longlasting processes which arise in situations where a part of a speech community is isolated from the other parts due to, for example, migration or a shif…
Translating into an endangered language: Filling in lexical gaps as Language Making
In this article, we analyse translation in the context of revitalisation from the point of view of Language Making. Both translation and revitalisation are based on the idea of languages as distinct entities, and together they are doubly inclined to draw clear-cut borders between languages. The data come from a series of translation courses targeted at speakers and learners of Karelian, a critically endangered Finnic language spoken in Finland an…
Introduction: Migration and linguistic diversification
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Diversification in time and space and how it is perceived: Applying a folk linguistic listening task with Tver’ Karelians
In this article we apply a folk linguistic listening task to examine how the Tver’ Karelians in Russia recognise a sample of their own dialect and a sample of Border Karelian (spoken in Finland), both recorded about 60 years ago. Tver’ Karelian and Border Karelian have a shared origin in Proto-Karelian but have been diverging from each other since the seventeenth century; the former has had strong influence from Russian and the latter from Finnis…
Reclaiming Karelian in Finland
Karelian is a small Finnic language, the closest cognate of Finnish, spoken in Finland and Russia. At present an autochthonous, nonregional minority language in Finland, its numbers have been rapidly decreasing since World War II, making it severely endangered. Countermeasures have been taken by the Karelian community, and from the 2010s, Finland has directed some public funds for the revitalization of Karelian. This article describes the present…
Linguistics (9 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (8 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · History (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Estonian (4 works) · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity (4 works) · Psychology (4 works)