Laura Tarkiainen
List of John Benjamins publications in which Laura Tarkiainen is involved.
Article
2020 ‘Effortful’, ‘needy’ and ‘freeloader’: Constructions of unemployed people’s deservingness in Finnish parliamentary discussions Journal of Language and Politics 19:2, pp. 290–310 | Article
This article provides a rhetorical discourse analysis of constructions of unemployed people’s deservingness. Data consist of transcripts from Finnish parliament members debating the ‘Activation Model for Unemployment Security’, from December 2017. In the analysis, three discursive constructions… read more