Saija Peuronen

Biographic Data

ID1245545
NAMESaija Peuronen
GIVEN NAMESSaija
FAMILY NAMEPeuronen
SIGNATUREPEURONEN S
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Jyväskylä
ORCID0000-0002-6822-1964
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS32
WORKS AS AUTHOR5
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Multilingualism and the Internet

    Open AccessSirpa Leppänen, Saija PeuronenCHAPTEREncyclopedia of Applied Linguistics2026

    This entry outlines how multilingualism on the internet can mean a variety of things, depending on how the notion of the internet is conceptualized, which genres and modes of communication or language settings are focused on, and the disciplinary perspective from which their analysis is approached. It also aims at illustrating the paradigms of current research on multilingualism on the internet. One of these is the macro‐sociolinguistic approach …

  • Multilingualism and the Internet

    Open AccessSirpa Leppänen, Saija PeuronenCHAPTEREncyclopedia of Applied Linguistics2020

    The topic of multilingualism and the Internet is important today due to globalization and the heterogeneous language practices that occur in online communication. The fact that the Internet is a central and meaningful forum for language use and communication for a growing number of individuals globally poses a challenge for language studies. Research is needed to describe and explain the ways in which Internet users select their language of commu…

  • Heteroglossia as a resource for reflexive participation in a community of Christian snowboarders in Finland

    Open AccessSaija PeuronenARTICLEJournal of Sociolinguistics2013Cited by: 2References: 35

    This paper addresses the ways in which linguistic heteroglossia is mobilized to construct participation in a youth cultural community of practice. The analysis focuses on spoken interaction among Christian snowboarders in Finland, and specifically on how the community members create social meanings by using their shared linguistic resources (e.g. religious register or snowboarding terminology). These socially indexical resources gain new meanings…

  • Multilingualism and the Internet

    Open AccessSipra Leppänen, Saija PeuronenCHAPTEREncyclopedia of Applied Linguistics2012

    Introduction Why multilingualism and the Internet should be an interesting and important topic at the present time (2011) has a great deal to do with globalization.

  • Young People's Translocal New Media Uses

    Open AccessSirpa Leppänen, Anne Pitkänen-Huhta et al.ARTICLEJournal of Computer-Mediated…2009Cited by: 30References: 18

    The aim of this paper is to shed light on the particularities of the linguistic, social and cultural action of young Finns in translocal new media spaces, and the ways in which they themselves make sense of and account for their actions. We present findings from 4 case studies, each of which illustrates aspects of translocality in young Finns' new media uses. Theoretically and methodologically the case studies draw on sociolinguistics, discourse …