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Katharina Ruuska
Omaa paikkaa etsimässä : edistyneisyys suomea toisena kielenään puhuvien kokemana
This article takes up a central question of Kirsti Siitonen’s dissertation – how advancedness in Finnish as a second language can be characterized – and investigates it from the perspective of research terminology as well as the lived experience of language users. We first discuss how and with what implications advanced learners of Finnish have been referred to in the research literature, i.e. whether they have been regarded as learners, speakers or other kinds of language users. Applying a small stories approach to interview data from different research projects, we then explore what advancedness means to such language users themselves. We conclude that advanced learners navigate a complex…
Oppijasta puhujaksi : erittäin edistyneet suomea toisena kielenä puhuvat aikuiset kielen, identiteetin ja ideologian risteymässä
Katharina Ruuskan suomen kielen alaan kuuluva väitöskirja tarkastettiin Jyväskylän yliopistossa maanantaina 9. marraskuuta 2020. Vastaväittäjänä toimi apulaisprofessori Peter De Costa (Michigan State University) ja kustoksena professori Minna Suni. nonPeerReviewed
Between ideologies and realities: Multilingual competence in a languagised world
AbstractRecent developments in sociolinguistics and applied linguistics have put emphasis on the contrast between ideologies of distinct ‘languages’ and the multifaceted reality of linguistic practices. This article argues that recent usage-based reconceptualisations of the notions of competence and repertoire can help paint a more complex picture of the relationship between monolingual ‘ideologies’ and diverse linguistic ‘realities’. Drawing on data from interviews with highly proficient adult speakers of Finnish as a second language, I explore some aspects of how speakers’ competence can be understood as shaped by language use, and what role linguistic ideologies, social expectations and …
Languagised Repertoires : How Fictional Languages Have Real Effects
It is now widely acknowledged in a range of linguistic disciplines that ‘languages’ are sociohistorical constructs rather than ontologically real entities. While this insight has contributed in important ways to challenging the monolingual bias in linguistics, a simplistic dismissal of the notion of ‘languages’ is unhelpful when trying to explain its status and function as a sociocultural, metalinguistic construct. This chapter draws on insights from linguistic anthropology as well as usage-based perspectives on language learning to argue that language use always involves an evaluative dimension linked with sociocultural conventions, and that it is such language use that forms the basis of …