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Ihmistarkoitteinen “hän”-pronomini puhutussa suomessa – kansanlingvistinen kyselytutkimus

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Siitonen K.

Acta Philologica

2016

issue 49

383-392

This article belongs to folk linguistics. I have a query which includes ca. 300 informants. In standard Finnish, the 3. person pronoun “hän” refers to a human being (both female and male), and “se” to an animal, a thing, or an abstract idea. Nevertheless, these expressions are not typically used in all traditional folk dialects or in the actual colloquial language, as above. In my query, I want to get answers to the question, in which situations language users believe that they use the pronoun “hän” referring to a human being. According to the answers, informants are chiefly using “hän” in formal situations, and the pronoun “se” in everyday situations. This can be confusing for students learning Finnish as a second language. Some informants claim that they are using the pronoun “hän” because of politeness, or to the contrary, sarcastically, negatively or humorously. In these answers, the choice of pronouns is not neutral, but context-dependent. In folk linguistic query, it appears that the speakers don’t normally know how they actually are using words in reality. In order to reveal the real use it would be beneficial to compare our results to recorded spoken Finnish from authentic situations. An important research question would be, whether it is neutral to use the pronoun “hän” in general.

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Ihmistarkoitteinen “hän”-pronomini puhutussa suomessa – kansanlingvistinen kyselytutkimus