Simo K. Määttä
List of John Benjamins publications in which Simo K. Määttä is involved.
2025 Multilingual accessibility of websites in relation to translation policies: Municipal websites in the Helsinki metropolitan area during the COVID-19 pandemic Translation in Society 4:2, pp. 220–247 | Article
This article analyzes the availability and accessibility of multilingual coronavirus information on the websites of the three largest cities in the Helsinki metropolitan area, Finland, during the COVID-19 pandemic. The aim is to assess whether these websites fulfilled their objective of… read more
2023 Linguistic and discursive properties of hate speech and speech facilitating the expression of hatred: Evidence from Finnish and French online discussion boards Hate Speech in Online Media, Granvik, Anton, Mélanie Buchart and Hartmut Lenk (eds.), pp. 156–172 | Article
Examples of posts from three Finnish (236 posts) and one French (410 posts) discussion threads are analyzed with regard to lexicon, grammar, speech acts, and topoi. The aim is to illustrate the different means used to express hatred or speech pertaining to ideological and thematic spaces in… read more
2014 Ideology Handbook of Pragmatics: 2014 Installment, Östman, Jan-Ola and Jef Verschueren (eds.) | Article
2004 Dialect and point of view: The ideology of translation in The sound and the fury in French Target 16:2, pp. 319–339 | Article
This article is an analysis of translations into French of non-standard literary dialect, in particular the speech of African Americans, in William Faulkner’s The sound and the fury. It shows that the contingency of dialect variation upon narrative point of view (focalization) is not taken into… read more