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- Bijvoet, Ellen, et al.
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Talkin' 'bout My Integration : Views on Language, Identity, and Integration Among Dutch and Finnish Migrants to the Swedish Countryside
- 2023
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In: Language Contacts and Discourses in the Far North. - Cham : Palgrave Macmillan. - 9783031429781 - 9783031429798 - 9783031429811 ; , s. 125-161
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Migration to the sparsely populated countryside in the North of Europe has received relatively little interest. We analyse how Finnish (labour) migrants and Dutch (life-style) migrants who have settled in a rural area in mid-Sweden discuss their challenges in relation to transnational migration. Our focus-group fieldwork data indicate that the Finnish and the Dutch participants have completely different views on what it means to be socially and linguistically integrated into a new home location. Our data also illustrate the intricacies of identity construction in transnational migration situations. We describe the Finns as ‘self-marginalised’ migrants who show little interest in becoming explicitly integrated into the village community, whereas the Dutch settlers as ‘involuntarily marginalised’ migrants are frustrated about the time it takes to become included in the local community. The analyses show the crucial importance of the migrants’ causes for migration and their expectations vis-à-vis social integration into a new community.
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- Delsing, Lars-Olof, et al.
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Litteraturkrönika 2017
- 2018
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In: Arkiv för nordisk filologi. - 0066-7668. ; 133
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Review (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Bokanmälningar av olika böcker
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- Delsing, Lars-Olof, et al.
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Litteraturkrönikan 2021
- 2022
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In: Arkiv för nordisk filologi. - 0066-7668. ; 137, s. 145-174
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Review (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Anmälningar av diverse böcker
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- Ekberg, Lena, et al.
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Identity construction and dialect acquisition among immigrants in rural areas–the case of Swedish-language Finland
- 2024
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In: Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0143-4632 .- 1747-7557.
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The study focuses on how transnational migration affects the socio-political peripheries of communities. Specifically, we focus on identity construction and on how identities are worked out among second-generation immigrants from Bosnia, whose parents came to the Swedish-language countryside in Finland as refugees in the early 1990s. We analyse the Bosnians’ small stories and their use of linguistic traits from the different varieties in the rural community where they have settled. The framework is narrative analysis coupled with Bhabha’s notion of identity as a third space and how this is manifested in the way the immigrants position themselves in their small stories and how realizations of their third positionings are related to their attitudes and use of the local dialect. The third position is realised as clusters of experiences and attitudes, suggesting different prototypical identity-constructional positions, three of them being the immigrant (i) as a mediator between the traditional local population and immigrants, expressing solidarity to both groups; (ii) as a generic immigrant, belonging neither to the local population nor to his/her ‘own’ ethnic group but affiliating with immigrants in general; and (iii) as an identification of oneself as a permanentemigrant aligning oneself with other adolescents in the diaspora.
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- Greggas Bäckström, Anna, 1973-
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"Ja bare skrivar som e låter" : En studie av en grupp Närpesungdomars skriftpraktiker på dialekt med fokus på sms
- 2011
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The thesis studies the literacy practices of a group of young people in Närpes in southern Ostrobothnia, Finland with focus on SMS (Short Message Service), both in Standard Swedish and in dialect, but for the most part written in dialect. The aim of the investigation is to describe this writing as a social marker (young people against adults) and its function as an identity act. In addition the study investigates the orthographic norms and conventions that the young people use in their writing. The material consists of 520 SMS and such material as was collected through inquiries and interviews. In Närpes, as in many other Finland Swedish dialect areas, the dialect has got widened areas of usage and is well established and accepted in more domains than before. It is used in the new media and is thereby also gaining larger scope in public space. This also applies to writing SMS in dialect. The theoretical points of departure are taken from sociolinguistics and literacy research. A central concept is the new writing, i.e. writing in electronic media such as e.g. SMS and e-mail, which are somewhere between speech and writing. This has given speech and writing new forms with new preconditions, forms that the new media have “triggered” forth and that the language is adapting itself to. In the first investigative chapter (Ch. 3) eleven literacy practices divided into five groups are analysed: I electronic literacy practices (SMS, e-mail, chat), II hand-written slips of paper (reminder slips, purchase lists, slips to parents and friends respectively), III picture postcards and letters, IV diaries and V school assignments. The informants participate with one exception, group V, in all literacy practices in dialect to a greater or lesser extent. The second investigative chapter (Ch. 4) accounts for the dialect features, diphthongs and consonant combinations that were concretely investigated in the SMS material. The young people’s writing in dialect is functional and shows that the dialect is an important identity marker. The lack of shared conventions for spelling is not conceived of as a problem but allows everyone to create their own conventions, which in its turn has resulted in the tolerance level for variations in orthography being high. One group think that they write as it sounds, while another think that they do not follow any rules. The dialect is reserved for everyday matters, while Standard Swedish is used in more formal writing situations. The literacy practice may be the same, but the choice of language variety varies with the aim, content and length.
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- Julien, Marit, et al.
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Intervensjon i norsk langdistansebinding
- 2017
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In: Ideologi, identitet, intervensjon : Nordisk dialektologi 10 - Nordisk dialektologi 10. - 1795-4428. - 9789515129963 - 9789515129970 ; 48, s. 195-206
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In the normal case, a reflexive pronoun is bound within its containing clause. More exceptionally, a reflexive is instead related to a binder in a higher clause – a phenomenon known as long distance binding. Long distance binding can be found in Norwegian, but as I will show here, with considerable variation between speakers. Quite a few speakers accept long distance binding only across indefinite interveners. For those who accept long distance binding across definite interveners, the acceptability drops if the embedded clause has V2 order, and in particular if the initial constituent of the embedded clause is topicalised. Other factors that influence the acceptability of long distance binding are the logophoricity of the matrix verb, the agentivity of the embedded verb, the presence of person features in the intervening subject, and the presence of negation in the embedded clause. Some speakers reject long distance binding only when two ore more negative factors co-occur. This shows that long distance binding is a complex phenomenon, and that individual grammars can give priority to different factors
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