kuollutsanoista
Kuollutsanoista is a Finnish linguistic concept that refers to words associated with death, execution, or finality. The term combines kuollutus, meaning execution, with sanoista, a plural form meaning words, and is used mainly in literary criticism and sociolinguistics to analyze how language frames mortality. The concept emerged in the 1990s among Finnish scholars investigating the semantic field of death-related terminology in contemporary Finnish.
Kuollutsanoista include both explicit terms such as kuolema (death) and poiminut (executed) and more ambiguous words
Studies of kuollutsanoista draw on corpora from newspapers, legal documents, and popular media. Results reveal a
From a theoretical standpoint, kuollutsanoista illuminates the interplay between linguistic choices and social attitudes. By mapping