Tag Archives: signs
Linguistic landscapes in the Valkea shopping center
By Liisa, Topi, Eevaleena Introduction This essay discusses the use for English in signs at stores at the Valkea shopping center in Oulu. We chose to focus on six different stores, each of which represents a different type of store, … Continue reading
Linguistic landscapes in the Valkea shopping center
By Liisa, Topi, Eevaleena The goal for our project was to examine the use of English in different stores at the Valkea shopping center in Oulu. We visited six different businesses: Suomalainen Kirjakauppa (a bookstore), Clas Ohlson (an electronics and … Continue reading
Blog: ♪ It opened up my eyes, I saw the sign ♪ – University of Oulu edition
For our project, we were interested in investigating a linguistic landscape familiar to us, namely the University of Oulu, which caters to a variety of linguistic audiences. Realizing the multilingual environment of the university, we wished to discover what other … Continue reading
The linguistic landscape of the University of Oulu as seen through bulletin boards
By Jenna, Miili and Arttu 1. Introduction The University of Oulu, just like many other Finnish universities, houses a large number of non-native students and faculty whose first language is not Finnish. This is reflected in the multilingual linguistic landscape … Continue reading
English in Finland 