Jarno Raukko

MA, Postgraduate Researcher
Email: jarno.raukko(at)helsinki.fi

Research Interests

polysemy, categorization within polysemy, semantics, experimental methods, pragmatic areal linguistics, Baltic Europe, exonyms, categorial flexibility, semantic variability, intersubjectivity

Publications

(by topic area; within each topic area, in reverse chronological order; forthcoming articles as their own section)

Polysemy

Raukko, Jarno. 2006. Polysemy as complexity? A Man of Measure: Festschrift in Honour of. Fred Karlsson on his 60th Birthday. (SKY journal of linguistics). Turku: The Linguistic Association of Finland. 357-361.

Raukko, Jarno. 2004a. Mitä amerikkalaisten lukiolaisten päässä liikkuu? [What’s going on in the heads of American high school kids?] In Terttu Nevalainen, Matti Rissanen, and Irma Taavitsainen (eds), Englannin aika. Elävän kielen kartoitusta. Helsinki: WSOY. 161-168.

Raukko, Jarno 2004b. Onko englannin kielen sanoilla enemmän merkityksiä kuin suomen kielen sanoilla? [Do English words have more meanings than Finnish words?] In Terttu Nevalainen, Matti Rissanen, and Irma Taavitsainen (eds), Englannin aika. Elävän kielen kartoitusta. Helsinki: WSOY. 262-265.

Raukko, Jarno 2003. Polysemy as flexible meaning: Experiments with English get and Finnish pitää. In Brigitte Nerlich, Zazie Todd, Vimala Herman, and David D. Clarke (eds.), Polysemy: Flexible patterns of meaning in mind and language. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 161-193.

Raukko, Jarno 2002. Pitämisen polysemia: Miten koehenkilöt hahmottavat pitää-verbin merkitystyyppejä. [With an English summary on p. 374: The meanings of pitää: How informants view semantic categorization within the polysemy of a Finnish verb.] Virittäjä 106: 354-374.

Raukko, Jarno 2000. Semantic variability and experimental methods. Pragmatics, Ideology, and Contacts Bulletin 5: 6-14.

Raukko, Jarno 1999. An "intersubjective" method for cognitive-semantic research on polysemy: The case of get. In Masako K. Hiraga, Chris Sinha, and Sherman Wilcox (eds.), Cultural, Psychological and Typological Issues in Cognitive Linguistics. Selected papers of the bi-annual ICLA meeting in Albuquerque, July 1995. [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 152.] Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 87-105.

Raukko, Jarno 1997. The Status of Polysemy in Linguistics: From Discrete Meanings to Default Flexibility. SKY 1997: The 1997 Yearbook of the Linguistic Association of Finland. 145-170.

Raukko, Jarno 1996: "No more polysemy", says the nationalist language police. The paradoxical battle between semantic flexibility and normativism. Pragmatics, Ideology, and Contacts Bulletin 3: 36-44.

Raukko, Jarno 1995: What do we get for get in Finnish? The New Courant 3. Department of English, University of Helsinki. 170-180. (Eds. Mary J.J. Hatakka & Kirsti Peitsara.)

Raukko, Jarno 1995: The use of informants in the study of polysemy, with implications to the notion of intersubjectivity in semantics. In Kataja, Riitta & Kristiina Suikkari (eds.), XXI Kielitieteen päivät Oulussa 6.-7.5.1995. Acta Universitatis Ouluensis B Humaniora 19. The University of Oulu, Finland. 215-224.

Raukko, Jarno 1994: Polysemia: merkitysten verkosto - merkityksen verkko. ["Polysemy: the network of meanings - the net of meaning."] In Leino, Pentti & Tiina Onikki (eds.), Näkökulmia polysemiaan. Kieli 8. Suomen kielen kognitiivista kielioppia 2. 36-69.

Unpublished M.A. Thesis

Raukko, Jarno 1993. Get examined. A cognitive semantic study on the polysemy of get as a dynamic network of meanings. Department of English, University of Helsinki.

Polysemy: forthcoming

Raukko, Jarno (forthcoming): Investigating polysemy in Solv: åm, ilak, and taa. In Jan-Ola Östman and Ville Laakso (eds.), Studies on the language of Solv. To appear in the series Publications of the Department of Linguistics, University of Helsinki.

Raukko, Jarno (forthcoming): Categorization Within Polysemy. How informants perceive meaning types in flexible meaning. Forthcoming PhD Thesis, Department of English, University of Helsinki.

Raukko, Jarno (forthcoming): Comparing polysemy via centrality effects: English get and Finnish saada through informants' eyes."

Translated names and pragmatics

Raukko, Jarno. 2007. A linguistic classification of exonyms. Exonyms and the international standardisation of geographical names. (Wiener Osteuropa-Studien). Wien: Lit. 19-57, 205-211.

Raukko, Jarno. (In press). Names in contact: Can cultural familiarity explain all exonyms and translated names? In Terhi Ainiala, Elwys De Stefani, Jan-Ola Östman & Nicolas Pepin (eds), Names in everyday usage: Shaping social identities. John Benjamins

Pragmatically Oriented Contact Linguistics
- Baltic Europe - Critique of the Family Three Model

Raukko, Jarno & Jan-Ola Östman 1994: Pragmaattinen näkökulma Itämeren kielialueeseen. [With an English summary on p. 69-72: A pragmatic perspective on the areal linguistics of Baltic Europe.] Publications of the Department of General Linguistics, University of Helsinki, no. 25.

Östman, Jan-Ola & Jarno Raukko 1995. The 'pragmareal' challenge to genetic language tree models. In Suhonen, Seppo (ed.), Itämerensuomalainen kulttuurialue - The Fenno-Baltic Cultural Area. Castrenianumin toimitteita [Publications of the Deparment of Finnish at the University of Helsinki] 49. 31-69. [With a German abstract on p. 67-69.]

Östman, Jan-Ola & Jarno Raukko 1993: Extending the domain of areal linguistic methodology: A pragmatic visit to Baltic Europe. In Crochetière, André, Jean-Claude Boulanger, & Conrad Ouellon (eds.), Proceedings of the XVth International Congress of Linguists. Québec: Les Presses de L'Université Laval. Vol. 3. 233-236.

Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis

Raukko, Jarno 1995: Misleading Estonia advertisement headlines. Pragmatics, Ideology, and Contacts Bulletin 2: 20-22.

Kuusisto, Pekka & Jarno Raukko 1995. The Estonia accident in the press: An overview description of the PIC Corpus. Pragmatics, Ideology, and Contacts Bulletin 2: 11-14.

Östman, Jan-Ola & Jarno Raukko 1994. Description of the [PIC] project. Pragmatics, Ideology, and Contacts Bulletin 1: 4-9.

Raukko, Jarno 1994: Cross-linguistic queries. Part 1: Focus on geographical names. Pragmatics, Ideology, and Contacts Bulletin 1: 33-35.

Raukko, Jarno 1992: Euroopasta kognitiivisen semantiikan hengessä. ['About Europe, in the spirit of cognitive semantics'] Lux linguae 1/1992: 12-13.

Surveys of Linguistic Scenes

Raukko, Jarno 1997: SKYkin vasta 20 vuotta. ['The short history of the Linguistic Association of Finland.'] Lux linguae 1/1997: 24-29.

Raukko, Jarno 1995. Mihin kognitiivinen kielitiede on menossa? ['Where is cognitive linguistics heading?'] Virittäjä 99: 4: 592-599.

Raukko, Jarno 1994: Language similarities from different perspectives. Pragmatics, Ideology, and Contacts Bulletin 1: 16-19.