Discourse functions in written Finnish: Corpus-based study in register variation

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.23982/vir.142646" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.23982/vir.142646</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.23982/vir.142646" target="_blank" >10.23982/vir.142646</a>

Result language

finština

Original language name

Discourse functions in written Finnish: Corpus-based study in register variation

Original language description

This study examines the variation of standard Finnish across four genres: research articles, fiction, political programs, and news items. The linguistic features typical of each genre are defined through computational methods in relation to other genres. Comparable research is abundant – for example, in English – but there is a lack of comparative quantitative research on the standard language genres in Finnish. The research data stems from four different corpora, comprising research articles, fictional texts, political speeches, and news texts. Key structure analysis was employed to identify linguistically significant features within the material, features typical to these texts. These features were then grouped into sets according to their patterns of co-occurrence within the data, using multi-dimensional analysis. The results indicate that there is considerable variation in standard Finnish, and each studied genre employs a different linguistic register. Research articles are characterised by the accumulation of modifiers at the beginning and end of sentences. Fiction is characterised by the use of pronouns and compact sentence structures with core members surrounding the sentence nucleus. Political programs are characterised by the use of noun modifiers and the abundance of both coordinating and subordinating clauses, while news texts are characterised by the extensive use of numerical modifiers and proper nouns. Based on linguistic variation, various discourse functions are identified, reflecting the communicative goals of each genre. © 2025 Kotikielen Seura. All rights reserved.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Project

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Continuities

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Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Virittaja

ISSN

0042-6806

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

129

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

FI - FINLAND

Number of pages

30

Pages from-to

214-243

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-105008784769