Arto Mustajoki
Biographic Data
| ID | 459283 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Arto Mustajoki |
| GIVEN NAMES | Arto |
| FAMILY NAME | Mustajoki |
| SIGNATURE | MUSTAJOKI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6609-7090 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Easy and plain languages as special cases of linguistic tailoring and standard language varieties
This article aims to introduce new insights to further the understanding of easy language (EL) and plain language (PL) as examples of tailored language and place them within a broader context of linguistic varieties. We examine EL and PL in relation to standard language, and we consider the degree of conscious effort required in tailoring and the compliance with the codified norms of standard language. Both EL and PL are used in asymmetric commun…
Avoidance of cognitive efforts as a risk factor in interaction
In an ordinary interaction, communicants have various, mostly unconscious goals which reflect their interactional, social and personal needs. In these interactions, people’s minds try to find a balance between reaching these goals and consuming cognitive energy. If a speaker puts too little effort into speech production, she risks not achieving her communicative goals. This is especially typical when the atmosphere is relaxed, a good example of w…
A multidimensional model of interaction as a framework for a phenomenon-driven approach to communication
Interaction between people is a cornerstone of being human. Despite huge developments in languages and communicative skills, interaction often fails, which causes problems and costs in everyday life and work. An inability to conduct dialogue also produces conflicts between groups of people, states and religions. Therefore, there are good reasons to claim that miscommunication and failures in interaction are among the most serious problems in the …
Centrifugal and Centripetal Forces Driving Russian Language Norms
Russian, as a pluricentric language, demonstrates differences in pronunciation, lexis, syntactical structures, and regional specificity of grammar deviations. The imposition of a norm, which is difficult even in the metropolis, is hardly possible in the diaspora, where host countries’ realities have a strong impact on the Russian language spoken outside of Russian borders. Even support of the Russian language turns into a double-edged sword, as R…
The risks of misunderstandings in family discourse: Home as a special space of interaction
Based on a large dataset of Russian material, the paper presents these general features of the home: a place to spend leisure time containing a long-established group of different ages and sexes free to move about in their environment These factors lead to tension between communicants and a diversity of topics of conversation. Inadequate recipient design is an overarching trigger for misunderstanding caused by the speaker. It derives from poor co…
What Can Science, Religion, Politics, Culture and the Economy Do? A Corpus Study of Metonymical Conceptualization Combined with Personification
The study analyses occurrences of Russian nouns meaning ‘science’, ‘religion’, ‘economy’, ‘politics’ and ‘culture’ as human-like subjects. This kind of use is interpreted as an example of a conceptualization described as Personification-With-Metonymy. On the basis of the fact that Russian examples work well in translation into other languages, we assume that similar conceptualization of these abstract nouns is not completely language-dependent. T…
Covid-19: A Disaster in the Linguistic Dimension of Different Countries
Covid‐19 is highly relevant in 2020; among other things, it is attracting new global socio-communicative and linguistic research. Scholars are addressing the linguistic response to the social and psychological situation in different countries in the era of coronavirus. Thus, the Editorial Board has created a forum for specialists to communicate (in writing), one which makes it possible to provide information about their sources on Covid‐19 and il…
The Soft Power of the Russian Language: Pluricentricity, Politics and Policies
Exploring Russian as a pluricentric language, this book provides a panoramic view of its use within and outside the nation and discusses the connections between language, politics, ideologies, and cultural contacts. Russian is widely used across the former Soviet republics and in the diaspora, but speakers outside Russia deviate from the metropolis in their use of the language and their attitudes towards it. Using country case studies from across…
Russian-speakers in Finland: The ambiguities of a growing minority
Russian-speakers in Finland are the country’s largest (and growing) immigrant group. Despite their ethnic diversity and their willingness to integrate in Finnish society, they are often framed in Finnish discourse as “representatives” of Russia with dual loyalties. They are also being simultaneously developed, by different political agents, as both a Finnish and a Russian cultural minority. The article examines the tensions between these differen…
Russian-Speakers in Finland: The Ambiguities of a Growing Minority
Les russophones constituent en Finlande le groupe d’immigrants le plus important, et il s’accroît. Malgré leur diversité ethnique et leur volonté de s’intégrer à la société finlandaise, ils sont souvent décrits dans le discours finlandais comme des « représentants » de la Russie dotés d’une double loyauté. Ils sont également considérés par différents agents politiques comme une minorité culturelle aussi bien finlandaise que russe. L’article exami…
Quantitative Approaches to the Russian Language
New Approach to Research Ethics: Using Grounded Dialogue to Strengthen Research Communities
Word of the Year 2015
The article analyses the Russian project “Word of the Year 2015” as compared to similar Finnish and German projects. The main parameters of the most important words in literature are compared with the characteristics of the words included in the rating list of the year. The authors demonstrate that words of the year correlate with the parameters of the most popular words, but are not identical. The research defines the principles behind the forma…
Philosophical and Cultural Interpretations of Russian Modernisation
Philosophical and Cultural Interpretations of Russian Modernisation
"In this book the expert international contributors attempt to answer questions such as: How far is it possible to attribute change in contemporary Russia as due to cultural factors? How does the process of change in cultural institutions reflect the general development of Russia? Are there certain philosophical ideas that explain the Russian interpretation of a modern state?"--Provided by publisher
My way towards mastery of the russian language and understanding of the Russian soul
The article examines the personal comprehension and scholarly research of Russian as a foreign language. Facts of the renowned scholar’s biography are projected onto the vast field of modern Russian studies. The article studies the heuristic methods of analysis and systematization of language material connected with accentology, morphology, functional syntax, cultural linguistics, corpus linguistics, and current linguistic processes. The author d…
A speaker-oriented multidimensional approach to risks and causes of miscommunication
Combining ideas from different research directions and fields, the paper presents a multidimensional model of communication which enables to explain the risks of communication more comprehensively than before. The process of producing and interpreting speech is described through a message transfer circle. The model also includes the mental worlds of the speaker and the recipient, which substantially influence interaction. In addition, special att…
Understanding Russianness
Multilingualism, Russian Language and Education in Kyrgyzstan
The study provides an overview of the sociolinguistic situation in Kyrgyzstan and the current role of Russian and Kyrgyz in the republic. We present initial results of a mass survey of language use that show that the efforts to introduce the Kyrgyz language on all levels of societal use had some effect. At the same time, Kyrgyzstan is a multinational multilingual state with a high degree of mixed marriages and ethnic tolerance. To know the nation…
The Conditions and Contexts of Use of the Russian?Elemental? Construction
Tronenko, N.: Regularities in the Behavior of Russian Phrasal Idioms
Kempgen, S.: Russische Sprachstatistik: Systematischer Überblick und Bibliographie
Case Selection for the Direct Object in Russian Negative Clauses
Report on Russian Morphology as It Appears in Zaliznjak's Grammatical Dictionary
Padez̆ dopolnenija v russkix otricatel'-nyx predloz̆enijax, I: Izyskanija novyx metodov v izuc̆enii staroj problemy
Multilingualism, Russian Language and Education in Kyrgyzstan
The study provides an overview of the sociolinguistic situation in Kyrgyzstan and the current role of Russian and Kyrgyz in the republic. We present initial results of a mass survey of language use that show that the efforts to introduce the Kyrgyz language on all levels of societal use had some effect. At the same time, Kyrgyzstan is a multinational multilingual state with a high degree of mixed marriages and ethnic tolerance. To know the nation…
Russian-Speakers in Finland: The Ambiguities of a Growing Minority
Les russophones constituent en Finlande le groupe d’immigrants le plus important, et il s’accroît. Malgré leur diversité ethnique et leur volonté de s’intégrer à la société finlandaise, ils sont souvent décrits dans le discours finlandais comme des « représentants » de la Russie dotés d’une double loyauté. Ils sont également considérés par différents agents politiques comme une minorité culturelle aussi bien finlandaise que russe. L’article exami…
Avoidance of cognitive efforts as a risk factor in interaction
In an ordinary interaction, communicants have various, mostly unconscious goals which reflect their interactional, social and personal needs. In these interactions, people’s minds try to find a balance between reaching these goals and consuming cognitive energy. If a speaker puts too little effort into speech production, she risks not achieving her communicative goals. This is especially typical when the atmosphere is relaxed, a good example of w…
Padez̆ dopolnenija v russkix otricatel'-nyx predloz̆enijax, I: Izyskanija novyx metodov v izuc̆enii staroj problemy
Report on Russian Morphology as It Appears in Zaliznjak's Grammatical Dictionary
Case Selection for the Direct Object in Russian Negative Clauses
Kempgen, S.: Russische Sprachstatistik: Systematischer Überblick und Bibliographie
The Conditions and Contexts of Use of the Russian?Elemental? Construction
Tronenko, N.: Regularities in the Behavior of Russian Phrasal Idioms
Multilingualism, Russian Language and Education in Kyrgyzstan
The study provides an overview of the sociolinguistic situation in Kyrgyzstan and the current role of Russian and Kyrgyz in the republic. We present initial results of a mass survey of language use that show that the efforts to introduce the Kyrgyz language on all levels of societal use had some effect. At the same time, Kyrgyzstan is a multinational multilingual state with a high degree of mixed marriages and ethnic tolerance. To know the nation…
Understanding Russianness
A speaker-oriented multidimensional approach to risks and causes of miscommunication
Combining ideas from different research directions and fields, the paper presents a multidimensional model of communication which enables to explain the risks of communication more comprehensively than before. The process of producing and interpreting speech is described through a message transfer circle. The model also includes the mental worlds of the speaker and the recipient, which substantially influence interaction. In addition, special att…
My way towards mastery of the russian language and understanding of the Russian soul
The article examines the personal comprehension and scholarly research of Russian as a foreign language. Facts of the renowned scholar’s biography are projected onto the vast field of modern Russian studies. The article studies the heuristic methods of analysis and systematization of language material connected with accentology, morphology, functional syntax, cultural linguistics, corpus linguistics, and current linguistic processes. The author d…
Word of the Year 2015
The article analyses the Russian project “Word of the Year 2015” as compared to similar Finnish and German projects. The main parameters of the most important words in literature are compared with the characteristics of the words included in the rating list of the year. The authors demonstrate that words of the year correlate with the parameters of the most popular words, but are not identical. The research defines the principles behind the forma…
Philosophical and Cultural Interpretations of Russian Modernisation
Philosophical and Cultural Interpretations of Russian Modernisation
"In this book the expert international contributors attempt to answer questions such as: How far is it possible to attribute change in contemporary Russia as due to cultural factors? How does the process of change in cultural institutions reflect the general development of Russia? Are there certain philosophical ideas that explain the Russian interpretation of a modern state?"--Provided by publisher
Quantitative Approaches to the Russian Language
New Approach to Research Ethics: Using Grounded Dialogue to Strengthen Research Communities
The Soft Power of the Russian Language: Pluricentricity, Politics and Policies
Exploring Russian as a pluricentric language, this book provides a panoramic view of its use within and outside the nation and discusses the connections between language, politics, ideologies, and cultural contacts. Russian is widely used across the former Soviet republics and in the diaspora, but speakers outside Russia deviate from the metropolis in their use of the language and their attitudes towards it. Using country case studies from across…
Russian-speakers in Finland: The ambiguities of a growing minority
Russian-speakers in Finland are the country’s largest (and growing) immigrant group. Despite their ethnic diversity and their willingness to integrate in Finnish society, they are often framed in Finnish discourse as “representatives” of Russia with dual loyalties. They are also being simultaneously developed, by different political agents, as both a Finnish and a Russian cultural minority. The article examines the tensions between these differen…
Russian-Speakers in Finland: The Ambiguities of a Growing Minority
Les russophones constituent en Finlande le groupe d’immigrants le plus important, et il s’accroît. Malgré leur diversité ethnique et leur volonté de s’intégrer à la société finlandaise, ils sont souvent décrits dans le discours finlandais comme des « représentants » de la Russie dotés d’une double loyauté. Ils sont également considérés par différents agents politiques comme une minorité culturelle aussi bien finlandaise que russe. L’article exami…
The risks of misunderstandings in family discourse: Home as a special space of interaction
Based on a large dataset of Russian material, the paper presents these general features of the home: a place to spend leisure time containing a long-established group of different ages and sexes free to move about in their environment These factors lead to tension between communicants and a diversity of topics of conversation. Inadequate recipient design is an overarching trigger for misunderstanding caused by the speaker. It derives from poor co…
What Can Science, Religion, Politics, Culture and the Economy Do? A Corpus Study of Metonymical Conceptualization Combined with Personification
The study analyses occurrences of Russian nouns meaning ‘science’, ‘religion’, ‘economy’, ‘politics’ and ‘culture’ as human-like subjects. This kind of use is interpreted as an example of a conceptualization described as Personification-With-Metonymy. On the basis of the fact that Russian examples work well in translation into other languages, we assume that similar conceptualization of these abstract nouns is not completely language-dependent. T…
Covid-19: A Disaster in the Linguistic Dimension of Different Countries
Covid‐19 is highly relevant in 2020; among other things, it is attracting new global socio-communicative and linguistic research. Scholars are addressing the linguistic response to the social and psychological situation in different countries in the era of coronavirus. Thus, the Editorial Board has created a forum for specialists to communicate (in writing), one which makes it possible to provide information about their sources on Covid‐19 and il…
A multidimensional model of interaction as a framework for a phenomenon-driven approach to communication
Interaction between people is a cornerstone of being human. Despite huge developments in languages and communicative skills, interaction often fails, which causes problems and costs in everyday life and work. An inability to conduct dialogue also produces conflicts between groups of people, states and religions. Therefore, there are good reasons to claim that miscommunication and failures in interaction are among the most serious problems in the …
Centrifugal and Centripetal Forces Driving Russian Language Norms
Russian, as a pluricentric language, demonstrates differences in pronunciation, lexis, syntactical structures, and regional specificity of grammar deviations. The imposition of a norm, which is difficult even in the metropolis, is hardly possible in the diaspora, where host countries’ realities have a strong impact on the Russian language spoken outside of Russian borders. Even support of the Russian language turns into a double-edged sword, as R…
Easy and plain languages as special cases of linguistic tailoring and standard language varieties
This article aims to introduce new insights to further the understanding of easy language (EL) and plain language (PL) as examples of tailored language and place them within a broader context of linguistic varieties. We examine EL and PL in relation to standard language, and we consider the degree of conscious effort required in tailoring and the compliance with the codified norms of standard language. Both EL and PL are used in asymmetric commun…
Avoidance of cognitive efforts as a risk factor in interaction
In an ordinary interaction, communicants have various, mostly unconscious goals which reflect their interactional, social and personal needs. In these interactions, people’s minds try to find a balance between reaching these goals and consuming cognitive energy. If a speaker puts too little effort into speech production, she risks not achieving her communicative goals. This is especially typical when the atmosphere is relaxed, a good example of w…
Linguistics (18 works) · Philosophy (12 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Discourse Analysis and Cultural Communication (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (5 works) · Law (5 works)