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(2019) Finnish — Emotions

Published on January 10, 2022. Last updated on January 10, 2022.

Tissari, Heli, Vanhatalo, Ulla. & Siiroinen, Mari. (2019). From corpus-assisted to corpus-driven NSM explications: The case of Finnish viha (anger, hate). In Lege artis. Language yesterday, today, tomorrow. The Journal of University of SS Cyril and Methodius in Trnava. Trnava: University of SS Cyril and Methodius in Trnava, 2019, IV (1), June 2019, p. 290-334. ISSN 2453-8035

 

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NSM researchers have not used corpus data very systematically thus far. One could talk about corpus-assisted rather than corpus-based or corpus-driven research. This article suggests a way to not only base research on corpus data, but also to let it guide us in defining words in terms of NSM. It presents a new method, which we have developed. Our data come from the Suomi24 Sentences Corpus and concerns the Finnish emotion words viha (‘anger, hate’), vihata (‘to hate’) and vihainen (‘angry’).


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(2017) NSM

Published on January 10, 2022. Last updated on January 10, 2022.

Vanhatalo, Ulla, & Tissari, Heli. (2017). Esittelyssä alkusanakieli [Presenting Natural Semantic Metalanguage]. Virittäjä, 121(2), 244–263.

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(2019) Finnish – Emotions

Published on August 15, 2021. Last updated on August 15, 2021.

Vanhatalo, Ulla; Tissari, Heli; Lilja, Taru; Vehkalahti, Kimmo; & Siiroinen, Mari. (2019). “Something bad can now happen to me here”: Meaning components of emotion words. SKY Journal of Linguistics 32 (2019), 145–179

 

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This paper reports on how people connect explications of emotion words to the terms they are meant to explicate. We focused on the Finnish counterparts to the following words: anger, disgust, fear, joy, love, sadness, and surprise. Our primary findings show that our participants, who were native speakers of Finnish, made the expected matches between Natural Semantic Metalanguage-based explications and the corresponding emotion words. However, there were significant differences between the emotion words, with the match rate ranging from 93% for ‘love’ to 51% for ‘sadness’. This research also contributes to our understanding of the meaning components of emotion concepts, and it may help people to talk about emotions in depth without using the conventional vocabulary for emotions.

 


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(2021) Minimal Languages – Health

Published on August 15, 2021. Last updated on August 15, 2021.

Goddard, Cliff; Vanhatalo, Ulla; Hane, Amie A.; & Welch, Martha G. (2021). Adapting the Welch Emotional Connection Screen (WECS) into Minimal English and Seven Other Minimal Languages. In Goddard, Cliff (ed.). Minimal Languages in Action. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan pp 225-254

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-64077-4_9

 


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(2021) Minimal Finnish

Published on August 15, 2021. Last updated on August 15, 2021.

Leskelä, Leealaura, & Vanhatalo, Ulla (2021). The Hunt for the Simplest Possible Vocabulary: Minimal Finnish Meets Easy Finnish. In Goddard, Cliff (ed.). Minimal Languages in Action. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan pp 53-82

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-64077-4_3

 


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(2020) Minimal Finnish

Published on June 19, 2020. Last updated on August 15, 2021.

Vanhatalo, Ulla & Lindholm, Camilla. (2020). Prevalence of NSM primes in easy-to-read and standard Finnish: Findings from newspaper text corpora. In Lauren Sadow, Bert Peeters, & Kerry Mullan (Eds.), Studies in ethnopragmatics, cultural semantics, and intercultural communication: Vol. 3. Minimal English (and beyond) (pp. 191-212). Singapore: Springer.

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(2017) Minimal Finnish

Published on August 15, 2018. Last updated on August 15, 2021.

Vanhatalo, Ulla (2017). 65:lla alkusanalla kohti ymmärtämistä. In Sirpa Tarvainen, Soile Loukusa, Terhi Hautala, & Satu Saalasti (Eds.), Yhteinen ymmärrys – havainnoinnista tulkintaan: puheen ja kielen tutkimuksen päivät Helsingissä 30.-31.3.2017 (pp. …-…). Helsinki: Puheen ja kielen tutkimuksen yhdistys [Association of Speech and Language Research).

Written in Finnish.


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(2009) Anna Wierzbicka and the common words of mankind

Published on August 15, 2018. Last updated on August 15, 2021.

Vanhatalo, Ulla (2009). Anna Wierzbicka ja ihmiskunnan yhteiset sanat [Anna Wierzbicka and the common words of mankind]. In Anna Idström, & Sachiko Sosa (Eds.), Kielissä kulttuurien ääni [The voice of cultures is in the languages] (pp. 35-47). Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura.

Written in Finnish.


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(2018) Minimal Finnish

Published on November 19, 2017. Last updated on August 15, 2021.

Vanhatalo, Ulla, & Torkki, Juhana (2018). Introducing the concept of the ‘65 words’ to the public in Finland. In Cliff Goddard (Ed.), Minimal English for a global world: Improved communication using fewer words (pp. 225-258). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-62512-6_10

The authors report and reflect on their experiences of popularizing the ‘65 words’ method in various domains of public life in Finland. The ‘65 words’ method is a simplified version of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage, modified and adapted to the Finnish language. Case studies are presented from media, business, politics, the church, and education.


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(2014) Finnish – NSM primes

Published on May 12, 2017. Last updated on August 15, 2021.

Vanhatalo, Ulla; Tissari, Heli; Idström, Anna (2014). Revisiting the universality of Natural Semantic Metalanguage: A view through Finnish. SKY Journal of Linguistics, 27, 67-94. PDF (open access)

The Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) provides a method of semantic analysis that can be used for various tasks mainly in the field of linguistic research. A crucial part of the theory is the set of primes, minimal lexical units that are used to explicate words, cultural scripts and other concepts. Identifying the primes in a new language is an opportunity to reinforce and/or revisit the theory. The remarks presented in this paper result from the identification process of the Finnish exponents of the NSM primes. The goal of this paper is to direct attention to some fundamental aspects in the Natural Semantic Metalanguage theory, especially to the relation between the universal language-independent NSM concepts and the English-based NSM. A number of remarks are made on the general system of the primes, as the paper points out issues related to e.g. the number, selection and mutual hierarchy of the primes. The economy and logic of certain prime constructions and the argumentation behind allolexy are discussed as well.


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(2016) English – Interjections

Published on May 12, 2017. Last updated on August 15, 2021.

Gladkova, Anna; Vanhatalo, Ulla; & Goddard, Cliff (2016). The semantics of interjections: An experimental study with Natural Semantic Metalanguage. Applied Psycholinguistics, 37(4), 841-865.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0142716415000260

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This paper reports the results of a pilot experimental study aimed at evaluating NSM explications of English interjections. It proposes a novel online survey technique to test NSM explications with language speakers. The survey tested recently developed semantic explications of selected English interjections used to mark either ‘surprise’ (wow, gosh, gee, yikes) or ‘disgust’ (yuck, ugh). The results provide overall support for the proposed explications and indicate directions for their further development. It is interesting that respondents’ preexisting knowledge of NSM and other background variables (age, gender, being a native speaker, or studying linguistics) were shown to have little influence on the test results.

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