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Powered by assemblage : language for multiplicity
2021
Abstract Assemblage is one way to examine complexities in today’s world. In Deleuzian thinking, assemblage refers to both the act of assembling diverse elements and the arrangements of these elements for a specific purpose. Importantly, it is the interaction between elements that allows the assemblage to become more than the sum of its parts. Applying this concept to long-term research on Cold Rush – the transformation of the Arctic commons into commodities – I argue that examining the boom, bust, and buzz around the commons can be fruitfully conceptualised and studied with assemblage. This approach brings with it an ontological shift from binaries into multiplicities and multiple temporali…
Multisensory discourse resources : decolonizing ethnographic research practices
2020
Researchers have attempted to address the intersection of multisensory and multimodal discourse practices from an interactional perspective. This study argues for the value of experiential, non-interactional multisensory discourse resources and proposes a conceptual framework of multisensory discourse resources to bridge visual and family language ideology ethnography. A year-long ethnographic case study of three Nepalese families (immigrant and transmigrant), consisting of 150 h of observational data triangulated with qualitative interviews, posed two questions: (1) How do transnational families, in the homescape, use multisensory discourse resources to provide cultural, national, religiou…
Authenticity, normativity and social media
2015
"Hei mitä tää ny tarkottaa?" : experiences of intercultural communication and linguistic shock while using English abroad
2016
Globalisaation ja kansainvälistymisen myötä korkeakouluopiskelijoiden kansainvälinen liikkuvuus on lisääntynyt huomattavasti. Ulkomailla oleskelu on tarjonnut monille hyvinkin positiivisia kokemuksia, mutta uudessa kulttuurissa eri kielellä toimiminen voi aiheuttaa myös yllättäviä ongelmatilanteita. Tutkimuksen teoriataustan aloittaa katsaus kansainväliseen opiskelijaliikkuvuuteen, jonka jälkeen esitellään muutamia tärkeimpiä kulttuurienvälisen viestinnän teorioita. Kulttuurienvälinen viestintäkompetenssi on myös olennainen tässä tutkimuksessa, joten myös siitä keskustellaan. Kielishokki ilmiönä esitellään aluksi sekä kulttuurisesta että kielellisestä näkökulmasta, jonka jälkeen tarkastella…
Socialization, language choice and belonging : language norms in a first and second grade English medium class
2012
Superdiversity perspective and the sociolinguistics of social media
2018
This chapter shows how the superdiversity perspective suggested in recent critical sociolinguistics provides the study of social media discourse and communication with a useful approach to conceptualizing and empirically investigating complex and multiple axes of diversity and difference in social media practices. It discusses recent work in sociolinguistics of social media, highlighting how social media practices illustrate many of the aspects of contemporary social life and communication that are considered symptomatic of superdiversity. It shows how research in this field has moved from viewing superdiversity as a quality or quantity characterizing specific places, spaces, groups and net…
Researching Adolescents’ Linguistic Repertoires in Multilingual Areas : Case Studies from South Tyrol and Finland
2023
In this chapter we present and compare two research experiences in the domain of linguistic repertoires (LRs) applied to the field of education. Our aim is to elucidate how we used different combinations of methods for data generation in the trilingual (German, Italian and Ladin) Italian province of South Tyrol and the bilingual (Finnish and Swedish) coastal regions of Finland in order to map the LRs of young multilingual participants aged 10 to 19. We investigated different aspects of their LRs (representations, use and trajectories) with multiple methods, ranging from more traditional sociolinguistic surveys such as questionnaires and inter views to multimodal and task-based methods such …
Svenska språkets värde och funktioner språkhierarkier i flerspråkig nätkontext
2009
“Come join us, and lose your accent!” : Accent Modification Courses as Hierarchization of International Student
2021
In this article, we examine the hierarchization of international students by bringing together perspectives of linguistic legitimacy and language ideologies. Our data stems from 26 accent reduction (AR) or accent modification (AM) course descriptions and websites from US universities. Based on their analysis, we discuss the socio-political implications of the phenomenon of these courses for international students and the ways in which language-based, particularly accent-based, arguments are used to create or reinforce different categories of students. We argue that while international students are presented as having different kinds of “comprehensibility problems” that AM/AR courses are cla…
Vozmožnosti ispol'zovaniâ raznyh âzykov v Laplandii : rossijskie turisty v Levi
2010
Pro gradu –työni tutkii venäläisturistien toimijuuden rakentumista monikielisessä turistisessa ympäristössä Levillä. Tavoitteena on selvittää, millainen osa venäjällä on Levin kielirepertuaarissa, millainen kielirepertuaari on haastattelemillani venäläisturisteilla ja miten he arvioivat Levin kielirepertuaaria. Lisäksi tutkin, millaisia arvoja ja funktioita venäläisturistien repertuaarit saavat Levillä. Tutkin työssäni kahta venäläisperhettä, jotka viettivät talvilomaansa Levillä. Työn pääasiallisena aineistona on perheiden kanssa tehdyt teemahaastattelut. Tutkimusta varten on kerätty myös muuta aineistoa, kuten muiden venäläisturistien täyttämät kyselylomakkeet, tutkijan havainnointi sekä …