Leena Kolehmainen
Biographic Data
| ID | 2014566 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leena Kolehmainen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leena |
| FAMILY NAME | Kolehmainen |
| SIGNATURE | KOLEHMAINEN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Eastern Finland |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2746-7201 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Multiple roots of multilingualism: Actors and factors affecting the linguistic landscape of cemeteries in an industrial town in Finland
This article is a methodological contribution to the question of what can be inferred from the linguistic landscape of a cemetery about the multilingual past of a community. The data of the study come from cemeteries in Varkaus, an industrial town in a Finnish-speaking area in Finland, where a small Swedish- and German-speaking minority formed in the nineteenth and early twentieth century as a result of industrial labor migration. The method sele…
Humans or animals? The linguistic representation of animal characters in original and translated Finnish picture books for children
This article examines pronominal references to anthropomorphic animal characters in contemporary Finnish-language picture books for children ( N = 531). In the Finnish language, the choice of third person pronoun is a key means of distinguishing humans from other animals. The study shows that animal characters in children’s literature are linguistically placed between humans and nonhumans: in about half of the analysed books, the pronoun typicall…
"What is "Language Making
This article introduces a new concept called "Language Making". The term covers all kinds of processes in which speakers or non-speakers collectively conceptualize linguistic entities. Such processes are usually perpetual, they operate based on language ideologies and attitudes, and they bring about functional and structural norms which determine the boundaries of linguistic entities such as languages, dialects or varieties. The article discusses…
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…
Multilingual practices in contemporary and historical contexts: Interfaces between code-switching and translation
This article serves as an introduction to a collection of four articles on multilingual practices in speech and writing, exploring both contemporary and historical sources. It not only introduces the articles but also discusses the scope and definitions of code-switching, attitudes towards multilingual interaction and, most pertinently, the interfaces between code-switching and translation. The article shows that code-switching and translation sh…
The translation of null subjects: A test case for the explicitation hypothesis
This article examines the translation of Finnish null subjects into German. The focus is on the Finnish passive, which is a syntactic construction without a subject. Because clauses without subjects are ungrammatical in the target language under scrutiny, the translator has to add a subject. How this is done and whether the addition of the subject involves explicitation are the main research questions in this study whose empirical corpus consists…
Weather and Language
This paper summarizes current findings in the cross-linguistic study of meteorological constructions. It provides both a typology of weather events and a typology of encoding formats used for the expression of weather in and across languages. The discussion shows that there is a correlation between these two parameters: there are clear tendencies in the distribution of the various encoding types across the various event types. This gives rise to …
The linguistics of weather: Cross-linguistic patterns of meteorological expressions
This paper is a cross-linguistic investigation of meteorological expressions (such as it is snowing or the wind blows ). The paper proposes a three-fold typology of meteorological constructions according to the element primarily responsible for the coding of weather. In the predicate type, a predicate expresses the meteorological event, while an argument has other functions. In the argument type, an argument is responsible for expressing weather,…
"What is "Language Making
This article introduces a new concept called "Language Making". The term covers all kinds of processes in which speakers or non-speakers collectively conceptualize linguistic entities. Such processes are usually perpetual, they operate based on language ideologies and attitudes, and they bring about functional and structural norms which determine the boundaries of linguistic entities such as languages, dialects or varieties. The article discusses…
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…
Weather and Language
This paper summarizes current findings in the cross-linguistic study of meteorological constructions. It provides both a typology of weather events and a typology of encoding formats used for the expression of weather in and across languages. The discussion shows that there is a correlation between these two parameters: there are clear tendencies in the distribution of the various encoding types across the various event types. This gives rise to …
The linguistics of weather: Cross-linguistic patterns of meteorological expressions
This paper is a cross-linguistic investigation of meteorological expressions (such as it is snowing or the wind blows ). The paper proposes a three-fold typology of meteorological constructions according to the element primarily responsible for the coding of weather. In the predicate type, a predicate expresses the meteorological event, while an argument has other functions. In the argument type, an argument is responsible for expressing weather,…
Weather and Language
This paper summarizes current findings in the cross-linguistic study of meteorological constructions. It provides both a typology of weather events and a typology of encoding formats used for the expression of weather in and across languages. The discussion shows that there is a correlation between these two parameters: there are clear tendencies in the distribution of the various encoding types across the various event types. This gives rise to …
The translation of null subjects: A test case for the explicitation hypothesis
This article examines the translation of Finnish null subjects into German. The focus is on the Finnish passive, which is a syntactic construction without a subject. Because clauses without subjects are ungrammatical in the target language under scrutiny, the translator has to add a subject. How this is done and whether the addition of the subject involves explicitation are the main research questions in this study whose empirical corpus consists…
Multilingual practices in contemporary and historical contexts: Interfaces between code-switching and translation
This article serves as an introduction to a collection of four articles on multilingual practices in speech and writing, exploring both contemporary and historical sources. It not only introduces the articles but also discusses the scope and definitions of code-switching, attitudes towards multilingual interaction and, most pertinently, the interfaces between code-switching and translation. The article shows that code-switching and translation sh…
"What is "Language Making
This article introduces a new concept called "Language Making". The term covers all kinds of processes in which speakers or non-speakers collectively conceptualize linguistic entities. Such processes are usually perpetual, they operate based on language ideologies and attitudes, and they bring about functional and structural norms which determine the boundaries of linguistic entities such as languages, dialects or varieties. The article discusses…
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…
Humans or animals? The linguistic representation of animal characters in original and translated Finnish picture books for children
This article examines pronominal references to anthropomorphic animal characters in contemporary Finnish-language picture books for children ( N = 531). In the Finnish language, the choice of third person pronoun is a key means of distinguishing humans from other animals. The study shows that animal characters in children’s literature are linguistically placed between humans and nonhumans: in about half of the analysed books, the pronoun typicall…
Multiple roots of multilingualism: Actors and factors affecting the linguistic landscape of cemeteries in an industrial town in Finland
This article is a methodological contribution to the question of what can be inferred from the linguistic landscape of a cemetery about the multilingual past of a community. The data of the study come from cemeteries in Varkaus, an industrial town in a Finnish-speaking area in Finland, where a small Swedish- and German-speaking minority formed in the nineteenth and early twentieth century as a result of industrial labor migration. The method sele…
Linguistics (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (4 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works) · History (3 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (3 works) · Translation Studies and Practices (3 works) · Linguistic research and analysis (2 works) · Linguistic typology (2 works)