Discursive Registers in Finno-Karelian Communicative Incantations
The present paper investigates discursive justification as a moderative device in Kalevala-metric incantations. It explores different uses of justification by Finno-Karelian ritual specialists and argues that justification functions differently with positively and negatively evaluated non-human agen...
| Published in: | Signs and Society |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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The University of Chicago Press
2022
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10138/350331 |
| Summary: | The present paper investigates discursive justification as a moderative device in Kalevala-metric incantations. It explores different uses of justification by Finno-Karelian ritual specialists and argues that justification functions differently with positively and negatively evaluated non-human agents. In addition, a typology of discursive units of justification is provided. The results of the analysis reveal that justification functions as a register-based feature within the incantation genre. Types of justification directed to differently evaluated agents work as register-emblematic features. These findings open up new directions in the research of registers in Kalevala-metric incantation genre as constituted of multiple registers of communication. Peer reviewed |
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