Helena Halmari
Biographic Data
| ID | 732925 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helena Halmari |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helena |
| FAMILY NAME | Halmari |
| SIGNATURE | HALMARI H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sam Houston State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7842-7854 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Limited input
Aims and Objectives: The aim of this introductory chapter to Effects of Limited Input, a Special Issue of the International Journal of Bilingualism, is to give a brief overview of how the topic of limited linguistic input is situated within the study of bilingualism and language contact. The seven chapters—which present samples of the varied circumstances in which bilinguals acquire, use, maintain, and sometimes suppress areas of their languages—…
Limited input and the acquisition of Finnish
Aims and Objectives/Research Question: This is a case study of a toddler acquiring Finnish in a trilingual (Finnish–Spanish–English) setting. Despite the apparent ease of the child’s acquisition of Finnish, the pressure of the majority language (English) suppresses the use of the acquired minority language. Is it feasible to expect an early-childhood minority language to be maintained at the level of production? Design/Methodology: Video-recordin…
Language Mixing as a Persuasive Strategy in Oxford, MS Bodley 649
One of the salient features of Oxford, MS Bodley 649, a fifteenth-century sermon collection, is its frequent switching from Latin to English â and back to Latin again. Building on Wenzelâ s (1994) groundbreaking work on macaronic sermons, I discuss the rhetorical characteristics of English elements in MS Bodley 649, with the purpose of showing that language mixing in this collection is not random but rather one of the rhetorical devices that the …
Let Us Be Finns”
In this introduction to the Journal of Finnish Studies theme issue entitled The Making of Finland: The Era of the Grand Duchy, the editors outline, in broad strokes, the years when Finland was part of Russia. The second part of the chapter consists of a discussion of the eight chapters that make up this article collection. The contributors approach the topic of the Grand Duchy of Finland from multiple—and even surprising—perspectives, showing how…
Political correctness, euphemism, and language change
On the language of the Clinton-Dole presidential campaign debates
This article investigates the rhetorical strategies deployed by President Clinton and Senator Dole during the 1996 presidential debates. Clinton resorted to implicit persuasion and audience-oriented rhetorical strategies, while Doles persuasion was more explicit, and he did not avoid the use of dispreferred strategies such as opening his answers with the discourse particlewell. There were differences in the candidates use of personal pronouns: Do…
“I'm forgetting both”
This article is a case study investigating the maintenance of Finnish in the language of two young Finnish-American bilinguals. The main source of data is a 90mins audio-taped conversation between the research participants, which was recorded in Finland after they had lived eight years in the United States and become fully fluent in English. Three main questions are addressed: (1) Are there signs of first language attrition or change from Finland…
The soft-spoken, angelic pickax killer
Government and Codeswitching
Bilingual codeswitching is a complex, multifaceted phenomenon, which calls for explanations on several different linguistic levels. This volume focuses on one such level: the level of syntax. An explanation for the regularities and consistencies in the codeswitching patterns of American Finns in their spontaneous conversations is sought for in the Universal Grammar -based principle of government as realized in case-assignment and agreement relati…
Deborah Schiffrin, Approaches to discourse. (Blackwell textbooks in linguistics, 8.) Oxford
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On Accessibility and Coreference
Anaphors and the grammatical roles of their antecedents are examined in Finnish language data in order to establish a correlation between two universal hierarchies: the Keenan & Comrie (1977) NP Accessibility Hierarchy and the hierarchy of accessibility of referential expressions (Accessibility Marking Scale) (Ariel 1985, 1988, 1990). A more or less clear correlation pattern between the type of anaphoric NPs and the grammatical roles of their ant…
Code-switching and register shift
Intercultural Business Telephone Conversations
Twelve business telephone conversations were analyzed in order to detect intercultural differences between speakers of Finnish and speakers of American English. In all the conversations, the other calling party was the same: a Finnish businessman. Five conversations were carried out in Finnish with Finnish business partners or clients, and seven in English with Englishspeaking businessmen in the United States. The main episode structure of both F…
Dividing the world
Le langage de la politique divise souvent notre monde en deux groupes : ceux qui partage nos propres valeurs et ceux qui sont censes s'y opposer. L'ex-president Ronald Reagan etait un maitre dans l'art d'user de ce langage de la dichotomie. Ceci apparait clairement dans ses descriptions des relations americano-sovietiques et de leurs forces militaires respectives
Structural relations and Finnish-English code switching
Dans cet article l'A. presente des donnees concernant le changement de code finnois-anglais en expliquant les contraintes de changements internes a la phrase qui sont dependantes de la morphologie flexionnelle du finnois. Bien qu'aucune contrainte ne soit parvenue a expliquer les donnees finno-anglaises, l'A. affirme qu'il n'est pas necessaire de formuler une nouvelle theorie pour rendre compte de ce couple de langues un peu particulier, le princ…
Code-switching and register shift
Political correctness, euphemism, and language change
The soft-spoken, angelic pickax killer
On the language of the Clinton-Dole presidential campaign debates
This article investigates the rhetorical strategies deployed by President Clinton and Senator Dole during the 1996 presidential debates. Clinton resorted to implicit persuasion and audience-oriented rhetorical strategies, while Doles persuasion was more explicit, and he did not avoid the use of dispreferred strategies such as opening his answers with the discourse particlewell. There were differences in the candidates use of personal pronouns: Do…
Dividing the world
Le langage de la politique divise souvent notre monde en deux groupes : ceux qui partage nos propres valeurs et ceux qui sont censes s'y opposer. L'ex-president Ronald Reagan etait un maitre dans l'art d'user de ce langage de la dichotomie. Ceci apparait clairement dans ses descriptions des relations americano-sovietiques et de leurs forces militaires respectives
Intercultural Business Telephone Conversations
Twelve business telephone conversations were analyzed in order to detect intercultural differences between speakers of Finnish and speakers of American English. In all the conversations, the other calling party was the same: a Finnish businessman. Five conversations were carried out in Finnish with Finnish business partners or clients, and seven in English with Englishspeaking businessmen in the United States. The main episode structure of both F…
Dividing the world
Le langage de la politique divise souvent notre monde en deux groupes : ceux qui partage nos propres valeurs et ceux qui sont censes s'y opposer. L'ex-president Ronald Reagan etait un maitre dans l'art d'user de ce langage de la dichotomie. Ceci apparait clairement dans ses descriptions des relations americano-sovietiques et de leurs forces militaires respectives
Structural relations and Finnish-English code switching
Dans cet article l'A. presente des donnees concernant le changement de code finnois-anglais en expliquant les contraintes de changements internes a la phrase qui sont dependantes de la morphologie flexionnelle du finnois. Bien qu'aucune contrainte ne soit parvenue a expliquer les donnees finno-anglaises, l'A. affirme qu'il n'est pas necessaire de formuler une nouvelle theorie pour rendre compte de ce couple de langues un peu particulier, le princ…
On Accessibility and Coreference
Anaphors and the grammatical roles of their antecedents are examined in Finnish language data in order to establish a correlation between two universal hierarchies: the Keenan & Comrie (1977) NP Accessibility Hierarchy and the hierarchy of accessibility of referential expressions (Accessibility Marking Scale) (Ariel 1985, 1988, 1990). A more or less clear correlation pattern between the type of anaphoric NPs and the grammatical roles of their ant…
Code-switching and register shift
Deborah Schiffrin, Approaches to discourse. (Blackwell textbooks in linguistics, 8.) Oxford
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Government and Codeswitching
Bilingual codeswitching is a complex, multifaceted phenomenon, which calls for explanations on several different linguistic levels. This volume focuses on one such level: the level of syntax. An explanation for the regularities and consistencies in the codeswitching patterns of American Finns in their spontaneous conversations is sought for in the Universal Grammar -based principle of government as realized in case-assignment and agreement relati…
The soft-spoken, angelic pickax killer
“I'm forgetting both”
This article is a case study investigating the maintenance of Finnish in the language of two young Finnish-American bilinguals. The main source of data is a 90mins audio-taped conversation between the research participants, which was recorded in Finland after they had lived eight years in the United States and become fully fluent in English. Three main questions are addressed: (1) Are there signs of first language attrition or change from Finland…
On the language of the Clinton-Dole presidential campaign debates
This article investigates the rhetorical strategies deployed by President Clinton and Senator Dole during the 1996 presidential debates. Clinton resorted to implicit persuasion and audience-oriented rhetorical strategies, while Doles persuasion was more explicit, and he did not avoid the use of dispreferred strategies such as opening his answers with the discourse particlewell. There were differences in the candidates use of personal pronouns: Do…
Political correctness, euphemism, and language change
Let Us Be Finns”
In this introduction to the Journal of Finnish Studies theme issue entitled The Making of Finland: The Era of the Grand Duchy, the editors outline, in broad strokes, the years when Finland was part of Russia. The second part of the chapter consists of a discussion of the eight chapters that make up this article collection. The contributors approach the topic of the Grand Duchy of Finland from multiple—and even surprising—perspectives, showing how…
Language Mixing as a Persuasive Strategy in Oxford, MS Bodley 649
One of the salient features of Oxford, MS Bodley 649, a fifteenth-century sermon collection, is its frequent switching from Latin to English â and back to Latin again. Building on Wenzelâ s (1994) groundbreaking work on macaronic sermons, I discuss the rhetorical characteristics of English elements in MS Bodley 649, with the purpose of showing that language mixing in this collection is not random but rather one of the rhetorical devices that the …
Limited input
Aims and Objectives: The aim of this introductory chapter to Effects of Limited Input, a Special Issue of the International Journal of Bilingualism, is to give a brief overview of how the topic of limited linguistic input is situated within the study of bilingualism and language contact. The seven chapters—which present samples of the varied circumstances in which bilinguals acquire, use, maintain, and sometimes suppress areas of their languages—…
Limited input and the acquisition of Finnish
Aims and Objectives/Research Question: This is a case study of a toddler acquiring Finnish in a trilingual (Finnish–Spanish–English) setting. Despite the apparent ease of the child’s acquisition of Finnish, the pressure of the majority language (English) suppresses the use of the acquired minority language. Is it feasible to expect an early-childhood minority language to be maintained at the level of production? Design/Methodology: Video-recordin…
Linguistics (13 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (5 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (4 works) · Political science (4 works)