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Finnish Working-Class Argumentation : A Minimalist Exercise

Hietanen, Mika LU orcid (2009)
Abstract
Finnish oral communication is often considered to be something of a minimalist exercise. A well-known expression of such communication is the so-called Proletariat Trilogy by the Finnish film-maker Aki Kaurismäki. This study presents an analysis of persuasive and argumentative dialogues in the manuscript to Shadows in Paradise. The approach is based on Searle’s speech acts, Grice’s conversational maxims, and Pragma-Dialectics. The result is a description of Finnish working-class everyday rhetoric as it is portrayed in the international breakthrough film of Kaurismäki.
Abstract (Swedish)
"Finnish oral communication is often considered to be something of a minimalist exercise. A well-known expression of such communication is the so-called Proletariat Trilogy by the Finnish film-maker Aki Kaurismäki. This study presents an analysis of persuasive and argumentative dialogues in the manuscript to Shadows in Paradise. The approach is based on Searle’s speech acts, Grice’s conversational maxims, and Pragma-Dialectics. The result is a description of Finnish working-class everyday rhetoric as it is portrayed in the international breakthrough film of Kaurismäki."
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Aki Kaurismäki, argumentation culture, film analysis, Finnish argumentation, Finnish rhetoric, pragmatic argumentation analysis, Shadows in Paradise, working-class argumentation
host publication
Argument Cultures : Proceedings of the 8th OSSA conference - Proceedings of the 8th OSSA conference
editor
Ritola, Juho
edition
CD-ROM
pages
28 pages
publisher
Informal Logic, University of Windsor, ON, Canada
ISBN
978-0-920233-51-1
language
English
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no
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b9a121d8-ac1a-4e1e-8ebc-531cedffa008
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https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/ossaarchive/OSSA8/papersandcommentaries/67/
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  author       = {{Hietanen, Mika}},
  booktitle    = {{Argument Cultures : Proceedings of the 8th OSSA conference}},
  editor       = {{Ritola, Juho}},
  isbn         = {{978-0-920233-51-1}},
  keywords     = {{Aki Kaurismäki; argumentation culture; film analysis; Finnish argumentation; Finnish rhetoric; pragmatic argumentation analysis; Shadows in Paradise; working-class argumentation}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  publisher    = {{Informal Logic, University of Windsor, ON, Canada}},
  title        = {{Finnish Working-Class Argumentation : A Minimalist Exercise}},
  url          = {{https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/ossaarchive/OSSA8/papersandcommentaries/67/}},
  year         = {{2009}},
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