Stilistisissa

Stilistisissa is a Finnish grammatical form that functions as the inessive plural of the adjective stilistinen, meaning stylistic. The form is used to describe features or aspects that pertain to style, and it appears with plural nouns in the inessive case, for example in phrases like stilistisissä piirteissä or stilistisissa valinnoissa. It is not a standalone concept but a case-inflected descriptor in linguistic and literary contexts.

In Finnish grammar, adjectives agree with the nouns they modify in number and case. For adjectives ending in -inen, the inessive plural form is typically -isissä, yielding stilistisissä when the base is stilistinen. This allows speakers to discuss multiple stylistic features or choices within a text, speech, or performance.

Usage and function. Stilistisissa commonly appears in academic writing, literary analysis, and discourse about language style. It enables precise statements about how style manifests across several elements rather than a single feature. The term is often paired with nouns like piirteet (features), valinnat (choices), or keinot (means), to describe the stylistic qualities observed.

Related concepts include stilistiikka (stylistics), which is the broader field studying how style operates in language and discourse, and tyylianalyysi, a general term for analyzing text style. Stilistisissa serves as a practical grammatical tool for attributing observations to style in plural, in-situ contexts.

In summary, stilistisissa denotes “in stylistic terms” for multiple stylistic features within Finnish-language analysis and is a standard example of how adjectives decline to reflect case and number.