Taru Nordlund
List of John Benjamins publications in which Taru Nordlund is involved.
Articles
2017 Competing norms and standards: Methodological triangulation in the study of language planning in nineteenth-century Finland Exploring Future Paths for Historical Sociolinguistics, Säily, Tanja, Arja Nurmi, Minna Palander-Collin and Anita Auer (eds.), pp. 131–156 | Chapter
Language change can be seen as an ideological negotiation between different actors. Here, we present two morphological changes that took place in nineteenth-century Finland when modern written standard of Finnish was being codified. Our aim is to reveal the complex nature of language planning as it… read more
2014 Grammaticalisation of the Finnish stance adverbial muka, ‘as if, supposedly, allegedly’ Diachronic Corpus Pragmatics, Taavitsainen, Irma, Andreas H. Jucker and Jukka Tuominen (eds.), pp. 53–76 | Article
This article discusses the evolution of the Finnish stance adverbial muka, ‘as if, allegedly, supposedly’, in light of diachronic corpus pragmatics. The particle muka currently always implies a dubitative stance adopted by the speaker, and it is used as an evaluative response to a former discourse.… read more
2012 Performing identities and interaction through epistolary formulae Letter Writing in Late Modern Europe, Dossena, Marina and Gabriella Del Lungo Camiciotti (eds.), pp. 65–88 | Article
This article studies the exchange of correspondence between Finnish emigrants and their close relations in the latter part of the nineteenth century. The main goal of the article is to describe how the linguistic and social identities as writers are constructed in these letters on the basis of both… read more