Åbo Akademi University

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with Åbo Akademi University*

Grammar in Action: Building comprehensive grammars of talk-in-interaction

Edited by Jakob Steensig, Maria Jørgensen, Jan K. Lindström, Nicholas Mikkelsen, Karita Suomalainen & Søren Sandager Sørensen

Subjects Applied linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Syntax

[Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 37] 2025. | edited volume

Structures in Discourse: Interaction, adaptability, and pragmatic functions

Edited by Martin Gill, Aino Malmivirta & Brita Wårvik

Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 345] 2024. | edited volume

The Pragmatics of Hypocrisy

Edited by Sandrine Sorlin & Tuija Virtanen

Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Philosophy | Pragmatics

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 343] 2024. | edited volume

Nordic Utopias and Dystopias: From Aniara to Allatta!

Edited by Pia Maria Ahlbäck, Jouni Teittinen & Maria Lassén-Seger

Subjects Theoretical literature & literary studies

[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 17] 2022. | edited volume

Literary Communication as Dialogue: Responsibilities and pleasures in post-postmodern times. Selected papers 2003-2020

Edited by Roger D. Sell

Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical literature & literary studies

[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 14] 2020. | monograph

Deep Locational Criticism: Imaginative place in literary research and teaching

Jason Finch

Subjects General studies in art & art history | Semiotics | Theoretical literature & literary studies

[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 3] 2016. xiii, 249 pp. |

Major versus Minor? – Languages and Literatures in a Globalized World

Edited by Theo D’haen, Iannis Goerlandt & Roger D. Sell

Subjects Language policy | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical literature & literary studies

[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 1] 2015. xv, 280 pp. |

Literature as Dialogue: Invitations offered and negotiated

Edited by Roger D. Sell

Subjects Dialogue studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical literature & literary studies

[Dialogue Studies, 22] 2014. xv, 274 pp. |

Literary Community-Making: The dialogicality of English texts from the seventeenth century to the present

Edited by Roger D. Sell

Subjects Dialogue studies | Discourse studies | English linguistics | Pragmatics | Theoretical literature & literary studies

[Dialogue Studies, 14] 2012. x, 263 pp. | edited volume

Communicational Criticism: Studies in literature as dialogue

Roger D. Sell

Subjects Communication Studies | Dialogue studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical literature & literary studies

[Dialogue Studies, 11] 2011. xi, 392 pp. | monograph

Humane Readings: Essays on literary mediation and communication in honour of Roger D. Sell

Edited by Jason Finch, Martin Gill, Anthony Johnson, Iris Lindahl-Raittila, Inna Lindgren, Tuija Virtanen & Brita Wårvik

Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical literature & literary studies

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 190] 2009. xi, 160 pp. | edited volume

Opening Windows on Texts and Discourses of the Past

Edited by Janne Skaffari, Matti Peikola, Ruth Carroll, Risto Hiltunen & Brita Wårvik

Subjects Discourse studies | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 134] 2005. x, 418 pp. | edited volume

Persuasion Across Genres: A linguistic approach

Edited by Helena Halmari & Tuija Virtanen

Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 130] 2005. viii, 257 pp. | edited volume

Children's Literature as Communication: The ChiLPA project

Edited by Roger D. Sell

Subjects Discourse studies | Language acquisition | Narrative Studies | Pragmatics

[Studies in Narrative, 2] 2002. xii, 352 pp. | edited volume

Mediating Criticism: Literary Education Humanized

Roger D. Sell

Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical literature & literary studies

2001. x, 431 pp. | course book

Literature as Communication: The foundations of mediating criticism

Roger D. Sell

Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical literature & literary studies | Writing and literacy

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 78] 2000. xiv, 348 pp. | course book

Tanskanen, Topias 2026 Where does the source text lie?: Different strategies on editing and translating First Enoch, 1850–2018

Keywords: source text | textual criticism | ancient texts | First Enoch | Ethiopic | Greek | Aramaic | manuscripts | compilative translation | indirect translation

In: A (Re)turn to the Source Text, Carlström, Malin & Richard Pleijel (eds.) [Benjamins Translation Library, 169] pp. 199–228 | open access

Steensig, Jakob, Maria Jørgensen, Jan Lindström, Karita Suomalainen & Søren Sandager Sørensen 2025 Discussion: Where are we now and what are the next steps toward an Interactional Grammar?

Keywords: grammar | linguistics | language description | clauses | method | applied linguistics | data | action | format

In: Grammar in Action: Building comprehensive grammars of talk-in-interaction, Steensig, Jakob, Maria Jørgensen, Jan K. Lindström, Nicholas Mikkelsen, Karita Suomalainen & Søren Sandager Sørensen (eds.) [Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 37] pp. 421–438

Suomalainen, Karita 2025 Second-person singular imperatives in Finnish everyday conversations: Multifunctionality and routinization of grammatical formats

Keywords: Finnish | everyday conversation | fixed expression | formulaicity | imperative | routinization | second-person singular | social action format

In: Grammar in Action: Building comprehensive grammars of talk-in-interaction, Steensig, Jakob, Maria Jørgensen, Jan K. Lindström, Nicholas Mikkelsen, Karita Suomalainen & Søren Sandager Sørensen (eds.) [Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 37] pp. 264–300

Steensig, Jakob, Maria Jørgensen, Jan Lindström, Nicholas Mikkelsen, Karita Suomalainen & Søren Sandager Sørensen 2025  Grammar in action: Building comprehensive grammars of talk-in-interaction

In: Grammar in Action: Building comprehensive grammars of talk-in-interaction, Steensig, Jakob, Maria Jørgensen, Jan K. Lindström, Nicholas Mikkelsen, Karita Suomalainen & Søren Sandager Sørensen (eds.) [Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 37]

Steensig, Jakob, Maria Jørgensen, Jan Lindström, Nicholas Mikkelsen, Karita Suomalainen & Søren Sandager Sørensen 2025 Grammar in action: Social interaction as a basis for a comprehensive grammar?

Keywords: grammar | action | talk-in-interaction | social action format | Interactional Linguistics | Conversation Analysis | language description | methodology | embodied conduct | emergence

In: Grammar in Action: Building comprehensive grammars of talk-in-interaction, Steensig, Jakob, Maria Jørgensen, Jan K. Lindström, Nicholas Mikkelsen, Karita Suomalainen & Søren Sandager Sørensen (eds.) [Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 37] pp. 1–24

Granvik, Anton, Veera Hatakka, Olli O. Silvennoinen, Riku Erkkilä & Eveliina Mäntylä 2025 Beyond corpus data — complementary and alternative methods in cognitive linguistics

Review of Cognitive Linguistics 23:2 pp. 327–344 | introduction

Marsden, Elizabeth & Alba Milà-Garcia 2025 “Dump her!”: Stancetaking in multimodal replies to ‘Am I the Asshole?’ Twitter posts

Keywords: stancetaking | multimodality | GIF | reacting | graphicon | identity | Twitter

Internet Pragmatics 8:2 pp. 267–294 | article

Sorlin, Sandrine & Tuija Virtanen 2024 Introduction to hypocrisy

Keywords: (in)sincerity | deception | misalignment | ethics | moral | sham | malign hypocrisy | benign hypocrisy | verbal hypocrisy | doublespeak

In: The Pragmatics of Hypocrisy, Sorlin, Sandrine & Tuija Virtanen (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 343] p. 2

Sorlin, Sandrine & Tuija Virtanen 2024 A pragmatic model of hypocrisy

Keywords: verbal hypocrisy | model | pretence | (im)politeness | civil hypocrisy | sincerity | (dis)simulation | face | impression management

In: The Pragmatics of Hypocrisy, Sorlin, Sandrine & Tuija Virtanen (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 343] pp. 15–42

Gill, Martin 2024 Hypocrisy, authenticity, and the rhetorical dynamics of populism

Keywords: hypocrisy allegations | authenticity | populist discourse | mainstream British press | climate activism

In: The Pragmatics of Hypocrisy, Sorlin, Sandrine & Tuija Virtanen (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 343] p. 98

Virtanen, Tuija 2024 Pretending to pretend: Performing “autohypocrisy” in online discourse

Keywords: autohypocrisy | pretence | playfulness | virtual performativity | performative layers | metapragmatic acts | multimodality | online self-communication | digital culture | Twitter

In: The Pragmatics of Hypocrisy, Sorlin, Sandrine & Tuija Virtanen (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 343] pp. 187–211

Björklund, Martina 2024  Amazing – The use of English in texting between a Finland-Swedish high school girl and friends

Keywords: heteroglossia | translanguaging | affect | SMS | WhatsApp | Facebook messenger

In: Structures in Discourse: Interaction, adaptability, and pragmatic functions, Gill, Martin, Aino Malmivirta & Brita Wårvik (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 345] pp. 58–82

Sorlin, Sandrine & Tuija Virtanen 2024  The Pragmatics of Hypocrisy

In: The Pragmatics of Hypocrisy, Sorlin, Sandrine & Tuija Virtanen (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 343]

Helasvuo, Marja-Liisa & Karita Suomalainen 2024 First and second person forms as resources for open reference and participation in Finnish everyday conversations

Keywords: Finnish | everyday conversation | first person singular | open reference | person expressions | participation framework | second person singular | referential index | deixis

In: (Non)referentiality in Conversation, Ewing, Michael C. & Ritva Laury (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 344] pp. 35–55

Gill, Martin, Aino Malmivirta & Brita Wårvik 2024 Structures in discourse: Interaction, adaptability, and pragmatic functions

In: Structures in Discourse: Interaction, adaptability, and pragmatic functions, Gill, Martin, Aino Malmivirta & Brita Wårvik (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 345]

Wårvik, Brita 2024 Structures in discourse: Micro and macro perspectives

Keywords: discourse structure | text and discourse linguistics | context | Tuija Virtanen

In: Structures in Discourse: Interaction, adaptability, and pragmatic functions, Gill, Martin, Aino Malmivirta & Brita Wårvik (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 345] pp. 1–17

Lindholm, Loukia 2024 Temporality in reaction GIFs as multimodal virtual performatives

Keywords: GIFs | digital fragments | virtual performativity | temporality

In: Structures in Discourse: Interaction, adaptability, and pragmatic functions, Gill, Martin, Aino Malmivirta & Brita Wårvik (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 345] pp. 103–123

Gill, Martin 2024 Vernacular voices in the public sphere: Marginality, conflict and authenticity in ‘below the line’ comments to a Pro-Brexit British tabloid

Keywords: BTL comments | online interaction | Brexit | public sphere | authenticity | solidarity | hate speech

In: Structures in Discourse: Interaction, adaptability, and pragmatic functions, Gill, Martin, Aino Malmivirta & Brita Wårvik (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 345] pp. 176–201

Nyqvist, Eeva-Liisa, Anne-Maj Åberg & Siv Björklund 2024 Immersion teachers’ perspective on grammar instruction in language immersion in Finland

Keywords: Immersion teacher beliefs | L2 grammar instruction | form-focused instruction | inquiry-based study

Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education 13:1 pp. 164–192 | article

Östman, Jan-Ola & Tuija Virtanen 2024 Nils Erik Enkvist

In: Handbook of Pragmatics: 27th Annual Installment, Vandenbroucke, Mieke, Jana Declercq, Frank Brisard & Sigurd D’hondt (eds.) [Handbook of Pragmatics, 27] pp. 87–99

Lehecka, Tomas 2023 The effects of using machine translation on perceptions of source credibility

Keywords: consecutive interpreting | machine interpreting | machine translation | risk communication | simultaneous interpreting | source credibility | speech synthesis | technology-mediated communication

In: Risk Discourse and Responsibility, Ädel, Annelie & Jan-Ola Östman (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 336] pp. 190–212

Björklund, Martina 2023 Heteroglossia

In: Handbook of Pragmatics: 26th Annual Installment, D’hondt, Sigurd, Pedro Gras, Mieke Vandenbroucke & Frank Brisard (eds.) [Handbook of Pragmatics, 26] p. 95

Ahlbäck, Pia, Jouni Teittinen & Maria Lassén-Seger 2022 Introduction

In: Nordic Utopias and Dystopias: From Aniara to Allatta! , Ahlbäck, Pia Maria, Jouni Teittinen & Maria Lassén-Seger (eds.) [FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 17] pp. 1–13

Björklund, Siv, Karita Mård-Miettinen & Sanna Pakarinen 2022 A language socialisation perspective on Swedish immersion in Finland: Students, teachers, and parents as key actors

Keywords: language socialisation | Swedish immersion | multilingualism | language majority | immersion students | immersion teachers | immersion parents | bilingual education

Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education 10:2 pp. 323–342 | article

Saloranta, Antti & Leena Maria Heikkola 2022 Acquisition of non-native vowel duration contrasts through classroom education: Perception and production affected differently

Keywords: L2 acquisition | L2 teaching | classroom education | quantity language | vowel duration | phonological length

Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 9:2 pp. 208–233 | article

Bergroth, Mari 2021 Coordinating, communicating, and combining languages in local immersion education policy reform in Finland

Keywords: curriculum reform | discourse | discursive institutionalism | language-awareness | language immersion | language policy | local curriculum

Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education 10:1 pp. 113–138 | article

Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove 2020 Review

Language Problems and Language Planning 44:1 pp. 109–112 | book review

Sell, Roger D. 2020 Literary Communication as Dialogue: Responsibilities and pleasures in post-postmodern times. Selected papers 2003-2020

In: Literary Communication as Dialogue: Responsibilities and pleasures in post-postmodern times. Selected papers 2003-2020, Sell, Roger D. (ed.) [FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 14] p.  ff.

Virtanen, Tuija 2018 *Sings myself happy birthday*: Externalizing and reassuming self in virtual performatives

Keywords: virtual performative | externalized self | reassumed self | pronouns | microblogging

International Journal of Language and Culture 5:2 pp. 248–270 | article

Stormbom, Charlotte 2018 Epicene pronouns in intermediate to advanced EFL writing

Keywords: generic he | singular they | gender-paired he or she | gender-inclusive language | EFL writing

International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 4:1 pp. 1–22 | article

Wårvik, Brita 2017 Review of English Historical Linguistics 2010. Selected Papers from the Sixteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 16), Pécs, 23–27 August 2010

NOWELE 70:1 pp. 89–96 | book review

Larjavaara, Meri 2016 The semantic motivation of non-canonical predicative relations: The French transitive construction

In: Atypical predicate-argument relations, Ruchot, Thierry & Pascale Van Praet (eds.) [Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 33] pp. 163–179

Sell, Roger D. 2015 Review of Imaginary Dialogues in American Literature and Philosophy: Beyond the Mainstream by Till Kinzel & Jarmila Mildorf (2014)

Language and Dialogue 5:2 pp. 340–347 | book review

Virtanen, Tuija 2015 Chapter 11. Referring to oneself in the third person: A novel construction in text-based computer-mediated communication

In: The Pragmatics of Personal Pronouns, Gardelle, Laure & Sandrine Sorlin (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 171] pp. 215–238

D’haen, Theo, Iannis Goerlandt & Roger D. Sell 2015 Introduction

In: Major versus Minor? – Languages and Literatures in a Globalized World, D’haen, Theo, Iannis Goerlandt & Roger D. Sell (eds.) [FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 1] pp. 1–12

Wårvik, Brita 2014 Continuity and quantity: Testing iconicity hypotheses on the continuities of time and participants in Old English narrative prose

Keywords: Old English | þa ‘then’ | narrative structure | quantity principle | discourse marker | continuity

Journal of Historical Pragmatics 15:1 p. 93 | article

Järvikivi, Juhani, Pirita Pyykkönen-Klauck & Matti Laine 2014 Introduction: Words & constructions: Language complexity in linguistics and psychology

The Mental Lexicon 9:2 pp. 141–143 | other

Sell, Roger D., Adam Borch & Inna Lindgren 2013 Chapter 1. Introduction

In: The Ethics of Literary Communication: Genuineness, directness, indirectness, Sell, Roger D., Adam Borch & Inna Lindgren (eds.) [Dialogue Studies, 19] pp. 1–19

Björkstrand, Christel 2013 Politeness and social utopia in Friedrich Schiller’s Wilhelm Tell

Keywords: social distance | Tell legend | dialogue analysis | politeness | natural law theory | Swiss Confederation

Language and Dialogue 3:1 pp. 34–55 | article

Borch, Adam 2012 Dialogue Analysis: Literature as dialogue: Report on the 14th conference of the International Association for Dialogue Analysis, Turku, Finland 2012

Language and Dialogue 2:2 pp. 327–335 | article

Björklund, Martina 2011 Mikhail Bakhtin

In: Philosophical Perspectives for Pragmatics, Sbisà, Marina, Jan-Ola Östman & Jef Verschueren (eds.) [Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights, 10] pp. 38–52

Sell, Roger D. 2011 Dialogicality and ethics: Four cases of literary address

Keywords: dialogicality | humanized dialogue analysis | communicational criticism | mediating criticism | literary-communicational theory | genuine communication | negative capability | ethics

Language and Dialogue 1:1 p. 79 | article

Niemi, Jussi, Matti Laine & Juhani Järvikivi 2009 Paradigmatic and extraparadigmatic morphology in the mental lexicon: Experimental evidence for a dissociation

Keywords: morphological paradigm | agrammatism | clitics | Finnish | lexical decision

The Mental Lexicon 4:1 pp. 26–40 | article

Gattoni, Colette 2008 8. Business is booming: Rethinking business presentations in response to the Bologna Reforms

In: ESP in European Higher Education: Integrating language and content, Fortanet-Gómez, Inmaculada & Christine A. Räisänen (eds.) [AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 4] pp. 181–197

Sell, Roger D. 2001 A historical but non-determinist pragmatics of literary communication

Journal of Historical Pragmatics 2:1 pp. 1–32 | article

Enkvist, Nils Erik 1982 Review Article on Gérard Genette: Narrative Discourse and Deirdre Burton

Studies in Language 6:1 pp. 107–118 | article

Enkvist, Nils Erik 1975 English in Latin Guise: A Note On Some Renaissance Textbooks

Historiographia Linguistica 2:3 pp. 283–298 | article

Silvennoinen, Olli O. Negative conditionals in English: A corpus analysis of register variation

Keywords: conditional | corpus linguistics | negation | register | subordination

Functions of Language | Online First Publication, 30 pp. | article

*Please note that this list may be inaccurate for older publications.