Register features in Kalevala-metric incantations

Discursive Registers in Finno-Karelian Communicative Incantations

“…While discursive registers are often part of wider semiotic registers (Agha 2007, 80), the limitations of the available research material limit the scope of analysis to linguistic signs. Continuing the earlier investigation of moderative devices in incantations (Karlsson 2021), I am interested here in register-emblematic features of text-segments that consist of directives and justifications for them in incantations addressed to non-human actors.…”

“…The starting hypothesis of the analysis is based on preliminary observations presented in an earlier article, where justificative means of Kalevala-metric incantations were explored (Karlsson 2021). The earlier research considered the use of moderative suffixes in incantations, and their possible role as indexes of moderation in directive discourse segments.…”

Lectio praecursoria: The tietäjät and Their Instruments: Registers in Viena Karelian Communicative Incantations

“…The other part of my research has focused on the incantations themselves (Karlsson 2021a;2021b). My data consisted of approximately 1000 communicative incantations from Viena.…”

”Voi šinuvo rauta raukka”

“…Tämän tutkimuksen kontekstissa kommunikatiiviset loitsut muodostavat siis tekstien verkostosta koostuvan genren, jonka jäsenet toimivat indeksisessä vuorovaikutuksessa suhteessa toisiinsa. (Bauman 2000, 84;2004, 3-4;Karlsson 2021a;Visakko 2015, 44. ) Rekisterin käsite viittaa tässä artikkelissa lingvistisen antropologian piirissä käytyihin keskusteluihin.…”

“…Tässä artikkelissa jatkan aiemmin suorittamaani rekisteriteorian luotausta suhteessa loitsuaineistoon (Karlsson 2021a;2021b;2022). Esitän, että aineistosta löytyvät rekisterit sisältävät emootioita hellyyden, kunnioituksen ja verhotun aggression muodossa (Agha 1998;Irvine 2009;Wilce ja Fenigsen 2015).…”