puhutaanviitataan
Puhutaanviitataan is a term used in discourse analysis to describe a specific interplay between talk acts and referential indexing in Finnish. It denotes a practice in which the act of talking about something simultaneously signals how that thing is being referred to within the discourse, thereby shaping its referential frame.
Origin and usage: The term is a Finnish neologism formed by combining puhutaan (it is spoken about/one
Theoretical background: Puhutaanviitataan ties into indexicality and deixis in that the referential expression used for a
Domains of study: It is used by researchers studying news discourse, political communication, and everyday conversation
Examples: In Finnish, a passage may first refer to a person with a pronoun (hän) and later
See also: discourse analysis, metapragmatics, deixis, anaphora, referential expression.