Marjut Johansson
List of John Benjamins publications in which Marjut Johansson is involved.
Titles
Discourses in Interaction
Edited by Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen, Marja-Liisa Helasvuo, Marjut Johansson and Mia Raitaniemi
The fourteen contributions in this collection come from different approaches in pragmatics, interactional linguistics, conversation analysis, discourse analysis and dialogue analysis; the name given to what is studied ranges from spoken language and conversation to interaction, dialogue, discourse… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 203] 2010. vii, 315 pp.
2020 Introduction: Networked practices of emotion and stancetaking in reactions to mediatized events and crises Networked Practices of Emotion and Stancetaking in Reactions to Mediatized Events and Crises, Giaxoglou, Korina and Marjut Johansson (eds.), pp. 169–178 | Introduction
This introduction to the Special Issue on Networked Emotion and Stancetaking summarizes the individual and collective contribution of the included five research articles. We argue for the relevance of discourse-pragmatic theories, methods, and concepts for furnishing cross-disciplinary… read more
2020 Affectivity in the #jesuisCharlie Twitter discussion Networked Practices of Emotion and Stancetaking in Reactions to Mediatized Events and Crises, Giaxoglou, Korina and Marjut Johansson (eds.), pp. 179–200 | Article
The Twitter discussion with the hashtag #jesuisCharlie was a large-scale social media event commenting on the tragic terrorist attack that took place in Paris in 2015. In this paper, we analyze French tweets compiled with language technology methods from a large dataset. Our qualitative approach… read more
2019 Daria Dayter, Discursive Self in Microblogging: Speech acts, stories and self-praise Internet Pragmatics 2:1, pp. 162–166 | Review
2019 Constructing ordinariness in online commenting in Hebrew1 and Finnish The Construction of ‘Ordinariness’ across Media Genres, Fetzer, Anita and Elda Weizman (eds.), pp. 209–236 | Chapter
This chapter studies how ‘ordinariness’ and mostly ‘ordinary’ are being constructed in on-line commenting in Hebrew and Finnish. Starting with the premise that “being ordinary” is dynamically and co-operatively constructed, we adopt the notion of “positioning” to account for the ways ordinary… read more
2015 Bravo for this editorial!: Users’ comments in discussion forums Follow-ups in Political Discourse: Explorations across contexts and discourse domains, Weizman, Elda and Anita Fetzer (eds.), pp. 83–108 | Article
In this paper, I study how comments function as follow-ups in the discussion
forums of online newspapers. Follow-ups recontextualize an object of discourse
from its prior context to an ongoing context. A follow-up involves stance-taking,
positioning, and negotiation of meaning. The data were… read more
2015 If I am elected President …: Other-quotations in French presidential debates The Dynamics of Political Discourse: Forms and functions of follow-ups, Fetzer, Anita, Elda Weizman and Lawrence N. Berlin (eds.), pp. 219–243 | Article
The main objective of this chapter is is to examine how other-quotation is used in French political debates. Other-quotations are follow-ups, i.e. communicative acts by which speakers take up what the other speaker has said in previous contexts. The data come from six second round presidential… read more
2012 Cognitive verbs in context: A contrastive analysis of English and French argumentative discourse Corpus Studies in Contrastive Linguistics, Marzo, Stefania, Kris Heylen and Gert de Sutter (eds.), pp. 89–115 | Article
This paper examines the frequency, distribution and function of 1st person self-references with the cognitive verbs think and believe, and penser and croire in British English and French argumentative discourse comprising 29 British political interviews (178,712 words) and 26 French political… read more
2012 Political videos in digital news discourse Dialogue in Politics, Berlin, Lawrence N. and Anita Fetzer (eds.), pp. 43–68 | Article
I propose a pilot study of political videos that are integrated within news articles in French, Finnish and British online newspapers and news sites. They will be first examined as media products whose sources and status distinguish them as independent news stories, excerpts, or unedited documents… read more
2011 Énonciation: French pragmatic approach(es) Discursive Pragmatics, Zienkowski, Jan, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 71–101 | Article
2010 Cognitive verbs in context: A contrastive analysis of English and French argumentative discourse Corpus Studies in Contrastive Linguistics, Marzo, Stefania, Kris Heylen and Gert de Sutter (eds.), pp. 240–266 | Article
This paper examines the frequency, distribution and function of 1st person self-references with the cognitive verbs think and believe, and penser and croire in British English and French argumentative discourse comprising 29 British political interviews (178,712 words) and 26 French political… read more
2010 Discourse and the interactional turn Discourses in Interaction, Tanskanen, Sanna-Kaisa, Marja-Liisa Helasvuo, Marjut Johansson and Mia Raitaniemi (eds.), pp. 1–10 | Article
2008 Construing reference in context: Non-specific reference forms in Finnish and French discussion groups Current Trends in Contrastive Linguistics: Functional and cognitive perspectives, Gómez González, María de los Ángeles, J. Lachlan Mackenzie and Elsa M. González Álvarez (eds.), pp. 27–50 | Article
Both Finnish and French have several personal forms which can be used for non-specific reference. This chapter focuses on the passive in both languages and on certain constructions containing 3rd person forms, namely, the French pronoun on + 3rd person verb form and the so-called zero person… read more
2008 Énonciation Handbook of Pragmatics: 2008 Installment, Östman, Jan-Ola and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 1–38 | Article
2007 ‘I’ll tell you what the truth is’: The interactional organization of confiding in political interviews Journal of Language and Politics 6:2, pp. 147–177 | Article
The goal of this article is to examine the context-dependent nature of acts of confiding in political interviews and to identify its genre-specific constraints and requirements. It looks at their distribution in British and French political interviews with regard to form, function and possible… read more
2007 Represented discourse in answers: A cross-cultural perspective on French and British political interviews Political Discourse in the Media: Cross-cultural perspectives, Fetzer, Anita and Gerda Eva Lauerbach (eds.), pp. 139–162 | Article
2002 Sequential positioning of represented discourse: In institutional media interaction Rethinking Sequentiality: Linguistics meets conversational interaction, Fetzer, Anita and Christiane Meierkord (eds.), pp. 249–271 | Article