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“I know that the natives must suffer every now and then”: Native / non-native indexing language ideologies in Finnish higher education
(Mouton de Gruyter, 2015)
This article examines the construction of“native”and“non-native”English use in Finnish higher education. Previous studies on the Finnish situationimplicate not just language ideological but political hierarchies which ...
“I love learning new things” : An institutional logics perspective on learning in professional journalism
(SAGE Publications, 2024)
In contemporary working life, journalists are often faced with the pressures of an increasingly precarious field where employment is less stable and more contractual than in previous years. Consequently, learning as a skill ...
“I want to speak like the other people” : Second language learning as a virtuous spiral for migrant women?
(Springer, 2017)
This article contributes to scholarship on migrant women’s second language (L2) education in North America and Europe. Questioning reductionist understandings of the relationship between female migrants, their receiving ...
“If you don’t know English, it is like there is something wrong with you.” : Students’ views of language(s) in a plurilingual setting
(De Gruyter, 2024)
Based on a repertoire-oriented stance to language learning and a broad definition of language awareness, this study investigates students’ discursive representations of the languages in their repertoires in the context of ...
“Is This an Advertisement or a Personal Account?” : Commercialisation of Lifestyle Blogs in Finland
(Ethnos ry, 2015)
When blogging first appeared on the map of social media in the mid-1990s, the majority of bloggers were male writing for example about the developments of the online world, or if they were political reporters, looking for ...
“Isn’t Self-destruction Coded into Us, Programmed into Each Cell?” : A Thanatological, Posthumanist Reading of Alex Garland’s Annihilation (2018)
(Transnational Press London, 2023)
As both a novel (VanderMeer, 2014) and cinematic adaptation (Garland, 2018), Annihilation has engaged posthumanist and ecocritical scholars seeking to answer to the demand for art forms to participate in the renegotiation ...
“It’s a Balancing Act” : Contradictory Ambitions of Journalistic Media in Addressing Harassment in Sport
(Cogitatio Press, 2024)
Over the last five years, the Finnish sports media has played a key role in disseminating information and stimulating debate on gender equity, sexual harassment, and the structures and culture that perpetuate the latter ...
“It’s Practically a Must” : Neoliberal Reasons for Foreign Language Learning
(Lulu Press, Inc., 2017)
“I’m just being a difficult LoTR hardcore fan” : Tolkien Fans’ Actions and Reactions to Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit Trilogy
(FINFAR - Suomen science fiction- ja fantasiatutkimuksen seura, 2022)
Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit trilogy has been debated and discussed widely. Fans of J.R.R. Tolkien have had strong opinions about the films, and I believe that their online conversations about the movies call for a closer ...
“KKona where’s your sense of patriotism?” : Positioning Nationality in the Spectatorship of Competitive Overwatch Play
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
This chapter analyzes the discursive construction of nationality and ethnicity in the context of the Overwatch World Cup 2019 and especially among the discussions of the world cup’s spectators on the live-streaming platform ...