Author Archives: Gerland
English used in Three Vlogs: a Case Study
Due to the expansion of social media, video blogs or shortly, vlogs have become a new way of expressing oneself. Keeping a diary is an age-old habit, which has changed from a secret one to an open, multimodal form in … 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
Observing Linguistic Landscapes: Interior Use of English in University Campus Area
Diverse linguistic landscapes are not a surprise in the present global world. For example, there might be English in the name of a restaurant, a local store or a company, or perhaps Italian, Swedish, Chinese or any other language. As … Continue reading
English in Finland 