Translanguaging Practices in Bilingual Adolescents’ Conversations in Haparanda, Stockholm and Helsinki

• Published in: Nordiques
• Main Author: Kolu, Jaana
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Association Norden 2018
• Subjects: linguistique; bilinguisme; suédois; finnois; adolescent; linguistics; bilingualism; Swedish; Finnish; translanguaging; lang; litt; Haparanda; Northern Sweden
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.4000/nordiques.1016; http://journals.openedition.org/nordiques/1016

This study examines the functions of translanguaging, i.e. the use of multiple linguistic resources in informal conversations among bilingual adolescents in three different sociolinguistic settings Haparanda, Stockholm and Helsinki. The focus is on bilingual young people’s language in Haparanda, a S...