Abstract This study examines how meanings are constructed in newspaper texts. The focus is on the meanings of particular words which are being used when referring to people's ability to work. Besides the lexical choices, this study demonstrates the discourses which are activated when writing about the topic. The approach taken is linguistically oriented and based on both critical discourse analysis and systemic-functional grammar. In this framework, language is seen as a resource for making meaning. Furthermore, a particular interest is taken in the relation between language, power and sociocultural practices. The data consists of 126 texts published in 1999–2000 in Helsingin Sanomat, the largest broadsheet newspaper in Finland. The analy...
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Kirja-arvioStillar, Glenn. F.: Analyzing everyday texts. Discourse, rhetoric and social perspective
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This section introduces the collective volume that honours the memory of our esteemed colleague Kirs...
Common Semantic Ground as an Aid in Analysing. Metaphorical Expressions My article discusses the m...
Intermediaries of the Artworld. From Pipeline to Actor-Network looks at the different ways in which ...
This study focuses on work commitment creation on rhetorical level, that is to say, the rhetorical a...
Texts in the work of a city department: A study of the language and context of benefit decisions T...
Kirja-arvioStillar, Glenn. F.: Analyzing everyday texts. Discourse, rhetoric and social perspective
The field of business and society studies has undergone significant changes in the past few decades ...
This master's thesis explored the activities of interpreters used by immigrants in Finnish health ca...
The field of business and society studies has undergone significant changes in the past few decades ...
Designed by the Media The Media publicity of Design in the Finnish Economic Press The meaning of...
An adequate response to an epidemic requires specialised knowledge. Expertise concerns truth that is...
Paradigmatisation of nouns in Finnish: How do speakers structurally associate potential nouns with p...
This thesis studies the language attitudes of 13–15-year-old Finnish adolescents. The aim is to prov...
The paper introduces a fresh perspective on individual language skills, or, language proficiency. Ba...
This research has been stimulated by YIT's interest in the development of social media in constructi...
This section introduces the collective volume that honours the memory of our esteemed colleague Kirs...
Common Semantic Ground as an Aid in Analysing. Metaphorical Expressions My article discusses the m...
Intermediaries of the Artworld. From Pipeline to Actor-Network looks at the different ways in which ...