Helen Hint

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Researcher at University of Tartu

This article presents the development of a specialized data set for analyzing Estonian metadiscourse markers in academic usage, extending Hyland's interpersonal metadiscourse model to a non-Indo-European language. Our goal is to show how metadiscourse, as a feature of a writing tradition, can reveal aspects of writing in languages other than Englis...

This study examines metadiscourse markers across a corpus of Estonian and Lithuanian journal articles in the field of linguistics. We aim to 1) compare the global use of all the metadiscourse markers across the languages and texts, making distinctions between these languages and specific academic journals, and 2) to discern whether similar and/or d...

This study reports two experiments that investigate the variation between two Estonian third-person referential devices – zero reference vs. the overt pronoun ta. First, in a speech-restoration paradigm (Experiment 1), we test whether the structure of a reference chain affects referential choice. Second, drawing on Experiment 1, we designed an acce...

Over the past several decades, there has been an increasing interest in academic discourse investigations with a specific focus on disciplinary, cultural, and generic aspects of academic text construction. Studies of Spanish, Italian, Greek, Portuguese, French, German, and Russian (inter alia) academic discourse have revealed not only the universal...

In the project Bwrite (Academic Writing in the Baltic States: Rhetorical Structures through Cultures and Languages), we aim to address the lack of an empirically grounded holistic understanding of non-Anglophone writing traditions by mapping the academic writing traditions in the national languages of the Baltic States: Estonian, Latvian, and Lithu...

Kokkuvõte. Artiklis analüüsime eesti keele demonstratiivide referentsiaalseid omadusi sellistes konstruktsioonides, kus demonstratiivid kuuluvad definiitse määratlejana nimisõnafraasi koosseisu. Otsime vastust küsimusele, mille poolest erinevad demonstratiivadverb (nt siin, seal) ning demonstratiivpronoomen (see, too), kui need esinevad määratlejan...

Suhtluspädevuse kui ühe üldpädevuse arendamisega tuleb gümnaasiumi riiklikust õppekavast lähtuvalt mõtestatult tegeleda. Gümnaasiumile mõeldud suhtluspädevuse hindamisvahendi ega ka süstemaatilise arendustegevuse väljatöötamiseks pole aga Eestis seni uuringuid tehtud. Siinses uurimuses keskendume suhtluspädevuse kontekstis kitsamalt gümnasistide ki...

In Estonian, demonstrative pronouns and demonstrative adverbs can be used as determiners in NPs to express similar meanings (cf. selles majas ‘in this house’ and siin majas ‘in this house [here]’). Using multifactorial corpus study, we examine demonstrative choice in such constructions (demPronNP vs. demAdvNP). We demonstrate that the choice betwee...

This study examines the usage of different anaphoric referential pronominal expressions in three areally close languages: Estonian, Finnish, and Russian. It focuses on the linguistic factors that influence the choice of referential pronominals in spoken narrative discourse, and the relative importance of these factors in languages. We used a pictur...

In this paper, we compare the use and functions of definite and indefinite article-like determiners in Estonian and Finnish. Our main aim is to explore whether the factors that explain the choice of particular determiner forms are similar in Estonian and Finnish. We use a picture-sequence based elicitation experiment to collect spoken narratives fr...

This paper explains the distinctions between the Estonian 3rd person overt pronoun and the zero person marker in spoken narratives. As both forms express the most salient entities in discourse, the saliency criterion cannot distinguish them. The Centering Theory is used to explore if the overt pronoun and zero have different effects on discourse co...

Käesolev artikkel käsitleb konteksti ja viitamisvahendeid, mis loovad konteksti. Käsitlus põhineb eelkõige kolmel eraldi läbiviidud uurimusel, milles kõigis oli põhitähelepanu algselt suunatud viitamisvahenditele. Vaatleme kontekstualiseerimisvõtteid spontaansetes argivestlustes ja kahes katselises olukorras: katses legoklotsidega, milles üks katse...