TY - JOUR AU - Johansson, Marjut AU - Jantunen, Jarmo H. AU - Heimo, Anne AU - Ahonen, Mirka AU - Laippala, Veronika PY - 2018/12/17 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Verkkokeskustelujen kansa: Korpusavusteinen diskurssianalyysi Suomi24-keskustelupalstasta JF - Sananjalka JA - sja VL - 60 IS - 60. SE - Artikkelit DO - 10.30673/sja.69963 UR - https://journal.fi/sananjalka/article/view/69963 SP - 96-117 AB - <p><strong><em>People&nbsp;'</em></strong><strong>kansa'<em>&nbsp;</em>in&nbsp;</strong><strong>digital</strong><strong>&nbsp;</strong><strong>discourses</strong><strong>.</strong>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Corpus-assisted&nbsp;discourse&nbsp;analysis&nbsp;on Suomi24&nbsp;discussion forum.</strong>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;In&nbsp;this&nbsp;paper,&nbsp;our&nbsp;objective&nbsp;is to&nbsp;analyze&nbsp;how&nbsp;participants&nbsp;use the word&nbsp;<em>kansa</em><em>&nbsp;'</em>people'<em>&nbsp;</em>on the largest discussion forum in Finland, called Suomi24 (Finland 24). Our main research questions are the following: 1) What&nbsp;kinds of&nbsp;discourses the&nbsp;forum participants&nbsp;relate&nbsp;to&nbsp;<em>kansa</em><em>&nbsp;</em>'people'<em>&nbsp;</em>and 2)&nbsp;what kinds of representations the writers attach to&nbsp;<em>kansa</em><em>&nbsp;</em>and what kinds of meanings they&nbsp;construct for the term&nbsp;on the&nbsp;discussion forum.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;Our theoretical and methodological approach is based on corpus-assisted discourse analysis and on digital discourse analysis.&nbsp; Studying the data from two different perspectives with two different methods will give two complementary views on&nbsp;the discourses of&nbsp;<em>kansa</em>.&nbsp;In the first part of the study, we analyzed the&nbsp;2,4-billion-token&nbsp;Suomi24&nbsp;data&nbsp;in its entirety applying corpus-assisted discourse studies and keyword analysis in order&nbsp;to analyze the discourses and representations that the discussion participants attach to&nbsp;<em>kansa</em><em>.</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;To this end, we extracted all paragraphs were the lemma&nbsp;<em>kansa</em><em>&nbsp;</em>was used.&nbsp;Alltogether, the data&nbsp;contain&nbsp;about&nbsp;829 000&nbsp;occurrences of the&nbsp;lemma.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>In the second phase, we executed qualitative&nbsp;digital discourse analysis in which we focused on the positioning of the word&nbsp;<em>kansa</em><em>&nbsp;</em>(people) by examining the type of linguistic action in the utterances where it was used, what kind of relation and agreement/isagreement&nbsp;&nbsp;writers expressed in relation to the topic and object of talk they were writing about.&nbsp;</p><p>The first analysis showed&nbsp;that the most frequent discourses attached to&nbsp;<em>kansa</em><em>&nbsp;</em>were religion, politics and power, ethnicity and society.&nbsp;In particular, these indicate that&nbsp;<em>kansa</em><em>&nbsp;</em>is often represented through&nbsp;religion and&nbsp;that&nbsp;the discourses relate&nbsp;<em>kansa</em>&nbsp;strongly to nation-state, that is, independence, government and&nbsp;ethnic&nbsp;groups.&nbsp;Furthermore,&nbsp;<em>kansa</em><em>&nbsp;</em>is often associated with inequality&nbsp;in the society, where&nbsp;parts of the&nbsp;<em>kansa</em><em>&nbsp;</em>are&nbsp;seen as&nbsp;disfavoured.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>The second analysis, based on digital discourse analysis, reveals that the word people is used in the following five ways. First,&nbsp;kansa&nbsp;is positioned as&nbsp;either in the biblical sense or as religious people who blames others. Second, writers describe&nbsp;<em>stupid people</em>&nbsp;and they&nbsp;complain and blame while showing their disregard towards people. Third, people&nbsp;was&nbsp;described as victim, betrayed, and oppressed without access to power. Here, the writers complain and accuse. Forth, the people&nbsp;was&nbsp;described as social actor through the use of cognitive verbs and speech act verbs showing&nbsp;intelligence&nbsp;of this people to which the writers belonged. The last category was a mixed one that contained people as&nbsp;representative&nbsp;of a nation or described with some quality, such as&nbsp;<em>sisukas</em><em>&nbsp;</em><em>kansa</em>&nbsp;(persistent people, or people with guts).&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>The&nbsp;results&nbsp;show&nbsp;that&nbsp;<em>kansa</em><em>&nbsp;(people)</em>&nbsp;are&nbsp;used&nbsp;in&nbsp;very&nbsp;familiar and stereotypical ways. This word functions as part of an ideological discourse in the discussions in this&nbsp;forum&nbsp;that&nbsp;allow writers to build their self-image, distinguish themselves from the&nbsp;<em>people</em>&nbsp;or in order to legitimate their own position in a way that other writers recognize the shared and reproduced representation of&nbsp;<em>people</em>.&nbsp;In this way, this representation is part of this new kind of public vernacular discourse in various platforms of social media produced by ordinary people. However, these representations of the&nbsp;<em>kansa</em><em>&nbsp;(people)&nbsp;</em>did not present any&nbsp;novel ways of understanding people.&nbsp;</p><p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="normaltextrun"><strong>Avainsanat:&nbsp;</strong>verkkokeskustelu, korpusavusteinen diskurssintutkimus,&nbsp;avainsana-analyysi,&nbsp;digitaalinen diskurssianalyysi,&nbsp;representaatio</span></p><p>&nbsp;</p> ER -