Mia Halonen
List of John Benjamins publications for which Mia Halonen plays a role.
Articles
2017 Chapter 10. The perception of Somali place names among immigrant Somali youth in Helsinki Socio-onomastics: The pragmatics of names, Ainiala, Terhi and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 203–226 | Chapter
Immigrant Somali youth living in Helsinki are the focus of this article. The study investigates what kind of Somali place names Somali teenagers use in their home surroundings and what kind of perceptions and beliefs they have about these names and their use. The study also discusses Finnish… read more
2017 Mocking fakeness: Performance, phonetic aspiration and ethnic humour Pragmatics 27:4, pp. 507–528 | Article
Phonetic resources, like dialects and accents, are used in ethnic humour to build up a recognisable character that pokes fun at the stereotypes associated with a particular identity, sometimes with critical and political undertones. In this article, we examine the manipulation of one such… read more