Monthly Archives: April 2018
English used by Finnish YouTubers
By: Leeni Ahonen, Veera Juvonen & Kauri-Matti Kuivanen YouTube has been popular especially among Finnish children and teenagers since the video-sharing website was founded in 2005. In 2011, most young Finns between the ages of 12 and 20 claimed to … Continue reading
“Speaking of työhuone” – Codeswitching in Spoken Interaction
Codeswitching, which according to Halmari and Cooper (1998) means “the mixing of two or more languages within the same conversational exchange and also within the same sentence”, is a common phenomenon especially in multilingual environments and among multilingual persons. In … Continue reading
How the Viewers roast the Streamer – The limitations of Finnish
English has become an irreplaceable part of Finnish media discourse over the last few decades. As social media has made itself a platform for many different types of communication also in Finland, English has naturally followed suit.Since the majority … Continue reading
Comparing code-switching: interaction between different language communities
Emmi Hagman & Milla Koivuniemi Language is created by the people who use it. It is constantly changing and evolving regarding the needs of its users. When considering language use between two or more people, it is important to understand … Continue reading
English in Finnish gaming interactions
By: Katarina Heikkinen & Laura Hotakainen For this blog post, we decided to focus on how English language is used in Finnish gaming interactions. We wanted to look into two different gaming situations. One where the interaction is done … Continue reading
Code switching in morning radio
By: Terhi Autio, Sonja Nurmi & Emilia Häkkinen Introduction In this post, we will analyse how English is used in radio interaction and why. We will give examples from three different morning shows, from three different radio channels: NRJ, … Continue reading
Instagram as a means of communicating
Language is meaningful to its users and the meaningfulness is not only evident in people’s opinions; it becomes evident in how people use language (Leppänen 2018). English language enters Finnish interactions and everyday life. In social media we can see … Continue reading
English in Finland 