Marjut Johansson

List of John Benjamins publications for which Marjut Johansson plays a role.

Titles

Networked Practices of Emotion and Stancetaking in Reactions to Mediatized Events and Crises

Edited by Korina Giaxoglou and Marjut Johansson

Special issue of Pragmatics 30:2 (2020) v, 134 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics

Discourses in Interaction

Edited by Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen, Marja-Liisa Helasvuo, Marjut Johansson and Mia Raitaniemi

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 203] 2010. vii, 315 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics

Articles

This introduction to the Special Issue on Networked Emotion and Stancetaking summarizes the individual and collective contribution of the included five research articles. We argue for the relevance of discourse-pragmatic theories, methods, and concepts for furnishing cross-disciplinary… read more
Johansson, Marjut and Veronika Laippala 2020 Affectivity in the #jesuisCharlie Twitter discussionNetworked Practices of Emotion and Stancetaking in Reactions to Mediatized Events and Crises, Giaxoglou, Korina and Marjut Johansson (eds.), pp. 179–200 | Article
The Twitter discussion with the hashtag #jesuisCharlie was a large-scale social media event commenting on the tragic terrorist attack that took place in Paris in 2015. In this paper, we analyze French tweets compiled with language technology methods from a large dataset. Our qualitative approach… read more
Weizman, Elda and Marjut Johansson 2019 Constructing ordinariness in online commenting in Hebrew1 and FinnishThe Construction of ‘Ordinariness’ across Media Genres, Fetzer, Anita and Elda Weizman (eds.), pp. 209–236 | Chapter
This chapter studies how ‘ordinariness’ and mostly ‘ordinary’ are being constructed in on-line commenting in Hebrew and Finnish. Starting with the premise that “being ordinary” is dynamically and co-operatively constructed, we adopt the notion of “positioning” to account for the ways ordinary… read more
In this paper, I study how comments function as follow-ups in the discussion forums of online newspapers. Follow-ups recontextualize an object of discourse from its prior context to an ongoing context. A follow-up involves stance-taking, positioning, and negotiation of meaning. The data were… read more
Johansson, Marjut 2015 If I am elected President …: Other-quotations in French presidential debatesThe Dynamics of Political Discourse: Forms and functions of follow-ups, Fetzer, Anita, Elda Weizman and Lawrence N. Berlin (eds.), pp. 219–243 | Article
The main objective of this chapter is is to examine how other-quotation is used in French political debates. Other-quotations are follow-ups, i.e. communicative acts by which speakers take up what the other speaker has said in previous contexts. The data come from six second round presidential… read more
Fetzer, Anita and Marjut Johansson 2012 Cognitive verbs in context: A contrastive analysis of English and French argumentative discourseCorpus Studies in Contrastive Linguistics, Marzo, Stefania, Kris Heylen and Gert de Sutter (eds.), pp. 89–115 | Article
This paper examines the frequency, distribution and function of 1st person self-references with the cognitive verbs think and believe, and penser and croire in British English and French argumentative discourse comprising 29 British political interviews (178,712 words) and 26 French political… read more
Johansson, Marjut 2012 Political videos in digital news discourseDialogue in Politics, Berlin, Lawrence N. and Anita Fetzer (eds.), pp. 43–68 | Article
I propose a pilot study of political videos that are integrated within news articles in French, Finnish and British online newspapers and news sites. They will be first examined as media products whose sources and status distinguish them as independent news stories, excerpts, or unedited documents… read more
Johansson, Marjut and Eija Suomela-Salmi 2011 Énonciation: French pragmatic approach(es)Discursive Pragmatics, Zienkowski, Jan, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 71–101 | Article
Fetzer, Anita and Marjut Johansson 2010 Cognitive verbs in context: A contrastive analysis of English and French argumentative discourseCorpus Studies in Contrastive Linguistics, Marzo, Stefania, Kris Heylen and Gert de Sutter (eds.), pp. 240–266 | Article
This paper examines the frequency, distribution and function of 1st person self-references with the cognitive verbs think and believe, and penser and croire in British English and French argumentative discourse comprising 29 British political interviews (178,712 words) and 26 French political… read more
Helasvuo, Marja-Liisa, Marjut Johansson and Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen 2010 Discourse and the interactional turnDiscourses in Interaction, Tanskanen, Sanna-Kaisa, Marja-Liisa Helasvuo, Marjut Johansson and Mia Raitaniemi (eds.), pp. 1–10 | Article
Helasvuo, Marja-Liisa and Marjut Johansson 2008 Construing reference in context: Non-specific reference forms in Finnish and French discussion groupsCurrent Trends in Contrastive Linguistics: Functional and cognitive perspectives, Gómez González, María de los Ángeles, J. Lachlan Mackenzie and Elsa M. González Álvarez (eds.), pp. 27–50 | Article
Both Finnish and French have several personal forms which can be used for non-specific reference. This chapter focuses on the passive in both languages and on certain constructions containing 3rd person forms, namely, the French pronoun on + 3rd person verb form and the so-called zero person… read more
Johansson, Marjut and Eija Suomela-Salmi 2008 ÉnonciationHandbook of Pragmatics: 2008 Installment, Östman, Jan-Ola and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 1–38 | Article
The goal of this article is to examine the context-dependent nature of acts of confiding in political interviews and to identify its genre-specific constraints and requirements. It looks at their distribution in British and French political interviews with regard to form, function and possible… read more
Johansson, Marjut 2002 Sequential positioning of represented discourse: In institutional media interactionRethinking Sequentiality: Linguistics meets conversational interaction, Fetzer, Anita and Christiane Meierkord (eds.), pp. 249–271 | Article