Dr. Liisa Granbom-Herraneni loeng vanasõnadest SMS-sõnumites 23. aprillil 2012

23. aprillil kell 14.15 peab dr. Liisa Granbom-Herranen (Jyväskylä Ülikool, Soome) loengu vanasõnadest SMS-sõnumites "Proverbs in SMS messages: Agrarian Language using Post-modern Communication". Loeng toimub Ülikooli 16-212. Kõik on oodatud kuulama!

Loengu tutvustus:

SMS messages are a context for traditional and modern proverbs. The aim of my ongoing research is to find out the way the proverbs get lives with the help of new technology: how they are used and interpreted in modern Finnish everyday communication and language? To what extent do we view a proverb in the oral context to be the same phenomenon as a contemporary proverb in written form? There are some discrepancies as well as similarities between proverbs in everyday life, proverbs in the media, and proverbs in literature.

Most of the Finnish proverbs still use agrarian language, although nowadays they are often used in a new context with a new meaning.

Proverbs, as a part of folklore, have from generation to generation been assumed to belong to the elderly. In Finland we are facing a new urban proverb tradition. The project participates in the common discourse of the agrarian traditions in everyday life in the 21st century and information technological Finland. As research material I use SMS messages meant to be short letters to other readers and to the editor of a daily newspaper.

Despite many changes in the culture, proverbs are still used. This means that they have rhetorical power and they can be used in the argumentation. Although the proverb is quite unchangeable, the meaning of the proverb in colloquial language (also in written from) is connected with the time and place when the proverb has been learned. Proverbs are more than just words.

Liisa Granbom-Herranen (PhD, MA) is at present a Postdoctoral Researcher of the Academy of Finland. Her research and studies are multidisciplinary. The main interest is related to the questions of the proverbs and the given meanings, the metaphor as well as the power, authority and autonomy in pedagogical occasions.