Transnationals’ Discourses on the English Language in Finland

Abstract This study concentrates on how transnationals living in Finland talk about English and its use in a Finnish context. It shows how the informants of the study construct discourses of English: the presence of English in Finnish society, proficiency in English, and the current linguistic situa...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lehto, Liisa-Maria
Format: Book Part
Language:unknown
Published: Springer International Publishing 2023
Subjects:
Arctic
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42979-8_7
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-3-031-42979-8_7
id crspringernat:10.1007/978-3-031-42979-8_7
record_format openpolar
spelling crspringernat:10.1007/978-3-031-42979-8_7 2024-03-10T08:31:46+00:00 Transnationals’ Discourses on the English Language in Finland Lehto, Liisa-Maria 2023 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42979-8_7 https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-3-031-42979-8_7 unknown Springer International Publishing https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 Arctic Encounters Language Contacts and Discourses in the Far North page 195-228 ISSN 2730-6488 2730-6496 ISBN 9783031429781 9783031429798 book-chapter 2023 crspringernat https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42979-8_7 2024-02-13T19:26:42Z Abstract This study concentrates on how transnationals living in Finland talk about English and its use in a Finnish context. It shows how the informants of the study construct discourses of English: the presence of English in Finnish society, proficiency in English, and the current linguistic situation in Finland. The data consist of pair conversations between transnational informants living in Finland, with 20 informants and 10 recorded pair conversations in total. The discourses show the notion of English as a widely known and spoken language in Finnish society. However, informants refined this general discourse by producing exceptions to the English skills of Finns according to speakers’ age, education, and places of residence. Finally, there was a discourse claiming that it is not possible to fully live in Finland using only English as certain areas of life remain inaccessible without knowledge of the local language. Book Part Arctic Springer Nature 195 228
institution Open Polar
collection Springer Nature
op_collection_id crspringernat
language unknown
description Abstract This study concentrates on how transnationals living in Finland talk about English and its use in a Finnish context. It shows how the informants of the study construct discourses of English: the presence of English in Finnish society, proficiency in English, and the current linguistic situation in Finland. The data consist of pair conversations between transnational informants living in Finland, with 20 informants and 10 recorded pair conversations in total. The discourses show the notion of English as a widely known and spoken language in Finnish society. However, informants refined this general discourse by producing exceptions to the English skills of Finns according to speakers’ age, education, and places of residence. Finally, there was a discourse claiming that it is not possible to fully live in Finland using only English as certain areas of life remain inaccessible without knowledge of the local language.
format Book Part
author Lehto, Liisa-Maria
spellingShingle Lehto, Liisa-Maria
Transnationals’ Discourses on the English Language in Finland
author_facet Lehto, Liisa-Maria
author_sort Lehto, Liisa-Maria
title Transnationals’ Discourses on the English Language in Finland
title_short Transnationals’ Discourses on the English Language in Finland
title_full Transnationals’ Discourses on the English Language in Finland
title_fullStr Transnationals’ Discourses on the English Language in Finland
title_full_unstemmed Transnationals’ Discourses on the English Language in Finland
title_sort transnationals’ discourses on the english language in finland
publisher Springer International Publishing
publishDate 2023
url http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42979-8_7
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-3-031-42979-8_7
genre Arctic
genre_facet Arctic
op_source Arctic Encounters
Language Contacts and Discourses in the Far North
page 195-228
ISSN 2730-6488 2730-6496
ISBN 9783031429781 9783031429798
op_rights https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
op_doi https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42979-8_7
container_start_page 195
op_container_end_page 228
_version_ 1793127776749879296

Similar Items