Publications

Publication details [#50986]

Etelämäki, Marja. 2009. The Finnish demonstrative pronouns in light of interaction. Journal of Pragmatics 41 (1) : 25–46.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

demonstrative pronoun | function | indexical | interaction | referential object

Language as a subject

Finnish

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study discusses the (discourse) functions of the Finnish demonstrative pronouns (in particular tämä and tuo), using two meaning dimensions: referential and indexical.