Author Archives: sarakaisa
English in Finnish news
Nowadays social media is an important channel through which English becomes an everyday resource to Finnish people, mainly for some young Finnish people (Leppänen 2018). In many new media contexts, English language is not considered as a “foreign” language. Instead, … 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
Linguistic landscapes in fast food restaurants
Introduction Linguistic landscape is about studying signs in public and urban places, regions and territories. It is a quite new area of research and it is applied in linguistics and sociolinguistics. People do not usually pay much attention to linguistic … Continue reading
English in Finland 