Johanna Isosävi
List of John Benjamins publications in which Johanna Isosävi is involved.
2025 Reactions to interruptions in Finnish, French and German parliamentary debates Journal of Language and Politics 24:2, pp. 301–327 | Article
This paper analyses unauthorised turns – namely, interruptions – in parliamentary debates, by focusing on their lesser-studied interactional characteristics, that is, reactions. Drawing upon cross-cultural pragmatics, we compare reactions in Finnish (Eduskunta of Finland), French (Assemblée… read more
2025 “It’s the National Assembly here, Madam!”: Managing discursive conflicts through forms of address in interruptions and reactions in Finnish, French, and German parliamentary debates Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict: Online-First Articles | Article
Parliamentary debates are adversarial in nature (Ilie 2003). This paper focuses on interruptions, which have been described as a means by which to disturb the speech of an authorised speaker (Truan 2016a), and their subsequent reactions. Herein, we aim to examine the link between the use of… read more
2023 Finnish and French public signs from commercial premises during the Covid-19 pandemic The interpersonal functions of public signs during the Covid-19 pandemic, Ogiermann, Eva (ed.), pp. 306–333 | Article
This paper studies 200 signs displayed in commercial premises during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in Finland and in France. The data were collected through crowdsourcing via social media platforms and analysed from the perspective of cross-cultural pragmatics. The vast majority of… read more
2023 Historical changes in politeness norms: Are Finnish and French conceptions of politeness moving closer to each other? Politeness in and across Historical Europe, Paternoster, Annick, Gudrun Held and Dániel Z. Kádár (eds.), pp. 198–216 | Article
Although French courtly models spread to Europe, little research has compared the development of politeness in France with more remote European linguacultures. To fill this gap, I examine folk understandings of historical politeness in Finnish and French linguacultures. Concentrating on cultural… read more