Helena Halmari
List of John Benjamins publications in which Helena Halmari is involved.
Journal
ISSN 1878-9714 | E‑ISSN 1878‑9722
Titles
Persuasion Across Genres: A linguistic approach
Edited by Helena Halmari and Tuija Virtanen
Persuasion, in its various linguistic forms, enters our lives daily. Politicians and the news media attempt to change or confirm our beliefs, while advertisers try to bend our tastes toward buying their products. Persuasion goes on in courtrooms, universities, and the business world. Persuasion… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 130] 2005. viii, 257 pp.
Government and Codeswitching: Explaining American Finnish
Helena Halmari
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… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 12] 1997. xvi, 276 pp.
2025 Chapter 10. Death-Row inmates’ last statements: Establishing identity through expressions of responsibility Identity Perspectives from Peripheries, Matsumoto, Yoshiko and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 218–234 | Chapter
The study uses different types of responsibility and their linguistic manifestations as discourse analytic tools to get at a deeper understanding of a highly atypical genre: the last statements by inmates in Texas who are about to be executed. The data consist of transcribed last statements (a… read more
2024 Evaluation as a persuasive tactic in the 2012 Obama-Romney debates Structures in Discourse: Interaction, adaptability, and pragmatic functions, Gill, Martin, Aino Malmivirta and Brita Wårvik (eds.), pp. 18–35 | Chapter
The focus of this article is the deictic evaluative construction that’s, as used by Barack Obama and Mitt Romney during the 2012 presidential debates. A summative clause, often toward the end of a discourse turn, opened by the distal demonstrative pronoun that, has a persuasive function,… read more
2024 Chapter 6. Apology as hypocrisy: Examples from Bill Clinton and Donald Trump The Pragmatics of Hypocrisy, Sorlin, Sandrine and Tuija Virtanen (eds.), pp. 124–160 | Chapter
Apologies have been a rewarding target for research in the pragmatics tradition; however, few studies connect apologies to hypocrisy. This chapter is an attempt to do so. I approach the pragmalinguistic aspects of hypocrisy by examining two notorious apologies: Clinton’s 1998 apology for his… read more
2008 On the language of the Clinton-Dole presidential campaign debates: General tendencies and successful strategies Journal of Language and Politics 7:2, pp. 247–270 | Article
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… read more
2005 In search of "successful" political persuasion: A comparison of the sytles of Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan Persuasion Across Genres: A linguistic approach, Halmari, Helena and Tuija Virtanen (eds.), pp. 105–134 | Chapter
2005 Towards understanding modern persuasion Persuasion Across Genres: A linguistic approach, Halmari, Helena and Tuija Virtanen (eds.), pp. 229–244 | Chapter
2005 Persuasion across genres: Emerging perspectives Persuasion Across Genres: A linguistic approach, Halmari, Helena and Tuija Virtanen (eds.), pp. 3–24 | Chapter
1996 On Accessibility and Coherence Reference and Referent Accessibility, Fretheim, Thorstein and Jeanette K. Gundel (eds.), pp. 155–178 | Article