"Are you Swedish?" : the heterogeneous identity of Finland-Swedish students
Date
2024Discipline
Intercultural Communication (maisteriohjelma)Master's Degree Programme in Intercultural CommunicationThis study aims to shed light on how Finland-Swedish students perceive and understand their identity and the Swedish-speaking minority. According to the Finnish Constitution, the national languages of Finland are Finnish and Swedish. In Finland, there is a Swedish-speaking minority living mainly on the coast of the Baltic Sea. People who speak Swedish as their mother tongue are called Swedish-speaking Finns or Finland-Swedes.
The present study is from the perspective of Finland-Swedish students who go outside the Swedishspeaking area to study in a predominately Finnish-speaking area of Finland. This aspect has hardly been researched to date. At the same time, this study is also a response to the call for more qualitative research on the Finland-Swedish minority. It is conducted through in-depth interviews and a focus group discussion, and the data is analysed using Bamberg’s three level model of narrative positioning. The research questions of the study are: How do Finland-Swedish stu
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Finland-Swedish students narrative positioning language ideology finlandssvenska studenter identitet narrative positionering språkideologi ruotsin kieli suomenruotsalaiset identiteetti suomalaiset suomenruotsalaisuus kaksikielisyys suomalaisuus kielelliset vähemmistöt Swedish language Swedish-speaking Finns identity (mental objects) Finns Finland-Swedishness bilingualism Finnish identity linguistic minorities
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