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Gender marked vocabulary on the example of Estonian sports news
Keywords: Estonian, corpus linguistics, critical discourse analysis, gender marking, feminist linguistics
Researchers in feminist linguistics have hypothesized that language use reflects gender relations and is involved in the reproduction of various gender stereotypes, which can be projected, for example, in lexical gender marking. In this article I looked at gender marked vocabulary that appeared in the sports news published from January to March 2020 in the Estonian web portals Delfi and ERR. My aim was to look at the frequencies of gender marked compounds and to find out which gender-specific compounds are used in the sports context. The results showed that…
Researchers in feminist linguistics have hypothesized that language use reflects gender relations and is involved in the reproduction of various gender stereotypes, which can be projected, for example, in lexical gender marking. In this article I looked at gender marked vocabulary that appeared in the sports news published from January to March 2020 in the Estonian web portals Delfi and ERR. My aim was to look at the frequencies of gender marked compounds and to find out which gender-specific compounds are used in the sports context. The results showed that…
Estonian Soviet encyclopedia
Keywords: Estonian Soviet Encyclopedia, Soviet ideology, knowledge creation, dialogue
The article examines the role of an encyclopedia and its transformation in Soviet society on the example of the Estonian Soviet encyclopedia (Eesti nõukogude entsüklopeedia, ENE). The focus is on three questions: In what contexts does ENE fit? How did the compilation of ENE begin and how did local aspirations and power ambitions take shape in that process? How did the ENE editorial board communicate with the future reader and what are the dialogue models emerging?
The compilation of ENE was a process revealing the ways of knowledge presentation characteristic of Khrushchev’s…
The article examines the role of an encyclopedia and its transformation in Soviet society on the example of the Estonian Soviet encyclopedia (Eesti nõukogude entsüklopeedia, ENE). The focus is on three questions: In what contexts does ENE fit? How did the compilation of ENE begin and how did local aspirations and power ambitions take shape in that process? How did the ENE editorial board communicate with the future reader and what are the dialogue models emerging?
The compilation of ENE was a process revealing the ways of knowledge presentation characteristic of Khrushchev’s…
Towards the democratic word!
Keywords: Estonian literature, transition period, 1990s, aesthetic democracy, literary norm, language politics
Peeter Sauter’s novel “Indigo” was at the time of its publication in 1990 intuitively perceived (the core example is given here by the literary critic Maimu Berg) as a profound analysis of an individual, of a certain era or some phenomenon. This article opens up on these intuitions, taking special interest in the third part – Sauter’s writing as a symptom of a certain phenomenon in literary discourse that was not yet clearly distinguishable at the time. That phenomenon was the rapid change in literature’s public position in the…
Peeter Sauter’s novel “Indigo” was at the time of its publication in 1990 intuitively perceived (the core example is given here by the literary critic Maimu Berg) as a profound analysis of an individual, of a certain era or some phenomenon. This article opens up on these intuitions, taking special interest in the third part – Sauter’s writing as a symptom of a certain phenomenon in literary discourse that was not yet clearly distinguishable at the time. That phenomenon was the rapid change in literature’s public position in the…
Vanill or vanilje?
Keywords: actual use, borrowings, corpus planning, fixed norm, linguistic standard
One way to interpret the contradiction between the linguistic standard or authoritative recommendation and the actual use in the case of vanill ‘vanilla’ and vanilje ‘vanilla’ is that the actual use has not allowed itself to be confused by the standards. It can be assumed, though, that without the fixed norm, vanilje would perhaps enjoy a still greater predominance over the receding vanill.
The case of vanill and vanilje is a good example of the fact that even a hundred years of dictionary recommendations may not be able to eliminate or…
One way to interpret the contradiction between the linguistic standard or authoritative recommendation and the actual use in the case of vanill ‘vanilla’ and vanilje ‘vanilla’ is that the actual use has not allowed itself to be confused by the standards. It can be assumed, though, that without the fixed norm, vanilje would perhaps enjoy a still greater predominance over the receding vanill.
The case of vanill and vanilje is a good example of the fact that even a hundred years of dictionary recommendations may not be able to eliminate or…
Information problems arising from location enquiries in Estonian emergency calls
Keywords: emergency calls, conversation analysis, location enquiries, information problems
This paper examines interactional problems arising from location formulations in Estonian emergency calls, focusing on call-takers’ questions and the caller’s answers to them. The goal of this paper is to identify the cause of interactional problems in emergency calls and to determine the party from whose action the problem arises. The analysis draws on corpus data consisting of Estonian emergency calls. For this article, 50 emergency calls containing 140 questions and answers about location were analysed.
Location is one of the three most important pieces of information in Estonian emergency calls. At the…
This paper examines interactional problems arising from location formulations in Estonian emergency calls, focusing on call-takers’ questions and the caller’s answers to them. The goal of this paper is to identify the cause of interactional problems in emergency calls and to determine the party from whose action the problem arises. The analysis draws on corpus data consisting of Estonian emergency calls. For this article, 50 emergency calls containing 140 questions and answers about location were analysed.
Location is one of the three most important pieces of information in Estonian emergency calls. At the…
Belonging – non-belonging
Keywords: belonging, non-belonging, identity, conviviality, autochthony, vernacular
The article introduces to Estonian readers selected terms and concepts that have been developed in recent decades to describe and make sense of daily experiences of living with difference in contemporary multicultural and -lingual societies. The focus is on the concept of belonging as theorised by Elspeth Probyn, Nira Yuval-Davis and Floya Anthias, among others; also discussed are autochthony and conviviality. The aim is to broaden the vocabulary and thus the ways of thinking about Estonia’s diverse population and about the different kinds of ties and experiences that bind individuals to Estonia. The idea…
The article introduces to Estonian readers selected terms and concepts that have been developed in recent decades to describe and make sense of daily experiences of living with difference in contemporary multicultural and -lingual societies. The focus is on the concept of belonging as theorised by Elspeth Probyn, Nira Yuval-Davis and Floya Anthias, among others; also discussed are autochthony and conviviality. The aim is to broaden the vocabulary and thus the ways of thinking about Estonia’s diverse population and about the different kinds of ties and experiences that bind individuals to Estonia. The idea…
From strangeness to closeness
Keywords: affect, intimacy, post-structuralism, Estonian literature, Lauren Berlant, feminism
Emil Tode’s novel Raadio (Radio, 2002) feels more than it knows. Although Raadio can be viewed as an ironic postmodern text, it feels too much for postmodernism, a mode of writing often associated with the waning of affect. Raadio is full of bubbling sensations and affective moments, which are not just decorative. Instead, these moments help the narrator to express intimacies that are otherwise suppressed under “major” narratives of love, to use Lauren Berlant’s (1998) term. The moments that are full of odd bodily sensations and affectively-loaded encounters in Raadio can be…
Emil Tode’s novel Raadio (Radio, 2002) feels more than it knows. Although Raadio can be viewed as an ironic postmodern text, it feels too much for postmodernism, a mode of writing often associated with the waning of affect. Raadio is full of bubbling sensations and affective moments, which are not just decorative. Instead, these moments help the narrator to express intimacies that are otherwise suppressed under “major” narratives of love, to use Lauren Berlant’s (1998) term. The moments that are full of odd bodily sensations and affectively-loaded encounters in Raadio can be…
About the features of Estonian academic writing
Keywords: academic writing, coherence, stance, authorial presence, rhetorical structure, argument
This paper aims to present a comprehensive overview about studies describing Estonian academic writing. Academic writing inherently belong to the everyday life of an academic community. While aspects of the Anglo-American writing tradition have been extensively described, not much is known about writing traditions of smaller languages, such as Estonian. This paper takes the first step towards understanding the essence of an Estonian academic writing tradition. This paper first presents a summary of our novel model that combines five features of academic writing: coherence, stance, authorial presence, rhetorical structure, and argument…
This paper aims to present a comprehensive overview about studies describing Estonian academic writing. Academic writing inherently belong to the everyday life of an academic community. While aspects of the Anglo-American writing tradition have been extensively described, not much is known about writing traditions of smaller languages, such as Estonian. This paper takes the first step towards understanding the essence of an Estonian academic writing tradition. This paper first presents a summary of our novel model that combines five features of academic writing: coherence, stance, authorial presence, rhetorical structure, and argument…
News of old primers
Keywords: primers, book history, literary history, language history, printing
The article introduces some early Estonian primers recently discovered. So far the Estonian national bibliography was known to include five different primers – one of them survived in duplicate, the rest as single copies – printed before 1750, more specifically, from 1694 to 1741. Now, four new findings have been discovered, only one of which is similar to a copy known earlier.
All four primers have survived as bound-with works in three bound-with volumes. Two of the volumes belonged to the library of the Earls of Macclesfield removed from Shirburn Castle, England, to…
The article introduces some early Estonian primers recently discovered. So far the Estonian national bibliography was known to include five different primers – one of them survived in duplicate, the rest as single copies – printed before 1750, more specifically, from 1694 to 1741. Now, four new findings have been discovered, only one of which is similar to a copy known earlier.
All four primers have survived as bound-with works in three bound-with volumes. Two of the volumes belonged to the library of the Earls of Macclesfield removed from Shirburn Castle, England, to…