Kun kirjoitat – viran puolesta tai huvin vuoksi -, pyrit vuorovaikutukseen: tavoittelet lukijaa, olipa tämä aikalainen tai kaukana tulevaisuudessa. Muinoin kirjoitettiin kiveen tai papyrukselle, nyt paperille ja ruudulle, yhä kehittyvin välinein - mutta aina jollekulle.

Tässä kirjassa analysoidaan kirjoitusta vuorovaikutuksena: Miten teksti välittää tietoa kirjoittajastaan, ja mistä lukija tunnistaa, kuuluuko hän sen kohderyhmään? Miten fiktio virittää tulkintakehyksensä? Miten verkkotekstistä näkyy vuorovaikutuksen monenkeskisyys tai moniäänisyys? Millaisia kaikuja tekstin tuottoprosessista jää: keiden äänet kuuluvat kokousmuistiossa tai sadan vuoden takaisissa paikallisuutisissa?

Kirjoitettu vuorovaikutus muistuttaa, että kielellinen vuorovaikutus ei ole vain puheen vaan aina myös kirjoituksen ydinpiirre. Teos on tarkoitettu niin yliopistossa opiskeleville, kielentutkijoille, äidinkielen ja kirjallisuuden opettajille kuin monenlaisille tekstiammattilaisille.

Written Interaction

This collection of articles combines perspectives from language and literary studies in the analysis of interaction in written Finnish discourse. The articles are informed by and combine different theories and methodologies: systemic-functional discourse analysis, ethnomethodological conversation analysis, anthropological and linguistic approaches to intertextuality and recontextualization as well as classical and post-classical narratology.

The introductory chapter, written by Mikko T. Virtanen, Toini Rahtu and Susanna Shore, discusses some central phenomena underlying interaction in writing: the participants in textual interaction, the nature of digital interaction and the ways in which texts interact with each other.

The articles in Part I address questions related to the interactional participants, in particular, the writer-in-the-text and the reader-in-the text or in literary terms, the implied author and the implied reader. Toini Rahtu examines the discursive roles use of first person forms in research articles, engaging with previous research on the use of the first person in the construction of authorial identity in academic writing. Pirjo Hiidenmaa deals with the implied author, narrator and the real author in nonfiction books and their paratexts. Elise Nykänen analyses a short story written by Pentti Holappa about a dog who can talk and fly. Nykänen investigates how reader’s interpretation of the narrator is affected by the narratological levels in the story.

Part II focuses on the interactional effect of particular linguistic resources in digital interaction. Minna Jaakola examines epistemic particles meaning ‘of course, certainly’ in reader comments of online newspaper. Jaakola focuses on how these particles are used to construe shared knowledge and engage with the opinions expressed in the news story. Mikko T. Virtanen and Riitta Juvonen investigate how dependent interrogative clauses are used to dialogically engage with the views of others in the sequencing of turns in blog interaction.

The articles in Part III investigate interaction from the perspective of intertextuality and recontextualization. Taru Nordlund and Ritva Pallaskallio examine news items in 19th century newspapers and the correspondents’ letters written by laymen. They look at how the letters are edited from the point of view of the standardization process of written Finnish, focussing on alternative forms of the essive in Finnish. Suvi Honkanen’s article investigates memos of town council project meeting as well as the meeting talk on which the memos are based. Honkanen looks at how the talk is recontextualised and whose voices are registered in the memos.