Sari Pietikäinen
Biographic Data
| ID | 195949 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sari Pietikäinen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sari |
| FAMILY NAME | Pietikäinen |
| SIGNATURE | PIETIKÄINEN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Jyväskylä |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7381-760X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 367 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
The economic reterritorialization of academic publishing and the politics of reading [Journal of Sociolinguistics]
Using Klein's observation of almost 35 years ago of the disturbed balance between production and reception of academic knowledge as a starting point, we reflect on some of the tensions related to current reading practices in academic publishing. Specifically, we discuss two tensions that we encounter and try to resolve in our role as editors: 1) the tension between standardization and creativity, and 2) the tension between monologue and dialogue.…
Mocking fakeness: Performance, phonetic aspiration and ethnic humour
Phonetic resources, like dialects and accents, are used in ethnic humour to build up a recognisable character that pokes fun at the stereotypes associated with a particular identity, sometimes with critical and political undertones. In this article, we examine the manipulation of one such resource, aspiration, used in performing and mocking one such clichéd character, called the fake Sámi. This character has a contested history in Finnish tourism…
Assemblage of art, discourse and ice hockey: Designing knowledge about work
This article examines speculative design's capacity to co-produce knowledge about contradictions and potentialities of work in professional ice hockey. Building on the Deleuzian concept of assemblage, speculative design has been used for two purposes: (a) to bring together the perspectives of art, anthropology, discourse studies, and professional sports in co-constructing knowledge about hockey work; and (b) to analyze and present the key finding…
Powered by assemblage: Language for Multiplicity
Assemblage is one way to examine complexities in today's world. In Deleuzian thinking, assemblage refers to both the act of assembling diverse elements and the arrangements of these elements for a specific purpose. Importantly, it is the interaction between elements that allows the assemblage to become more than the sum of its parts. Applying this concept to long-term research on Cold Rush - the transformation of the Arctic commons into commoditi…
Assembling Success: Desire, Worker Mobility, and Value Creation in Finnish Ice Hockey
Building on Deleuze and Guattari's assemblage theories, this paper offers an ethnography of work focused on a professional ice hockey team in Finland, where hockey is the leading sport in terms of popularity and economic investment. It is an analysis of the everyday investments in developing individual players' skills and in building teams capable of high levels of cooperation under conditions of unpredictability. By looking at team formation as …
Investing in indigenous multilingualism in the Arctic
Sociolinguistics from the Periphery: Small Languages in New Circumstances
This leading team of scholars presents a fascinating book about change: shifting political, economic and cultural conditions; ephemeral, sometimes even seasonal, multilingualism; and altered imaginaries for minority and indigenous languages and their users. The authors refer to this network of interlinked changes as the new conditions surrounding small languages (Sámi, Corsican, Irish and Welsh) in peripheral sites. Starting from the conviction t…
Multilingual dynamics in Sámiland: Rhizomatic discourses on changing language
Multilingualism in indigenous language communities brings forth tensions and creativity related to language change. In this article, taking dynamic multilingual indigenous Sámi language practices as a focus of ethnographic and discourse analytical research, I examine rhizomatic discourses on changing language in multilingual Sámi spaces. Based on longitudinal research on multilingualism in Sámiland, I will argue that the interlinked discourses of…
Spatial interaction in Sámiland: Regulative and transitory chronotopes in the dynamic multilingual landscape of an indigenous Sámi village
Using the example of the linguistic landscape of an indigenous Sámi village in northern Scandinavia, this article explores multilingualism in public signs located in public spaces of the village. Based on long-standing ethnographic and discourse analytical research on multilingualism in the spaces and practices in the peripheral locality of Sámiland, I will focus on the temporal and spatial dimensions of the signs. In this, Bakhtin’s concept of t…
Putting resources into practice: A nexus analysis of knowledge mobilisation activities in language research and multilingual communities
Recent demand within the academy for language research that bridges different stakeholders renders the social relevance of research a factor in the academic competition for research funds [Curry, M. J., & Lillis, T. (2013). Introduction to the thematic issue: Participating in academic publishing – consequences of linguistic policies and practices. Language Policy, 12, 209–213]. This calls for new means and innovations for designing and carrying o…
Shaping discourses of multilingualism through a language ideological debate: The case of Swedish in Finland
The ideological (re)construction of the position of Swedish in Finland is examined as it took shape during a major year-long debate about the role of Swedish in Finnish education. Data were collected through archival research of the leading national newspapers in the two official languages of Finland:Helsingin Sanomat(Finnish) andHufvudstadsbladet(Swedish). Circulating and intersecting discourses in newspaper texts are traced in order to examine …
Commodifying Sámi culture in an indigenous tourism site
Cultural tourism has become an alternative economic activity in many indigenous sites, and local tourist providers compete globally by commodifying their culture in an efficient, attractive manner. This process is not however a straightforward one, because of the need to manage both the multilingual context and the interaction between host and tourists, and this can lead to tensions for all parties. We examine a Reindeer Farm in the indigenous la…
Cutting across media spaces and boundaries: The case of a hybrid, indigenous Sámi TV comedy / Quer durch alle Medienräume und -grenzen: Der Fall einer hybriden, indigenen Sami-Fernseh-Komödie / Au-del…
Die Dynamik vieler zeitgenössischer Medien schafft neue, potenziell aber auch strittige Möglichkeiten der Sprach Verwendung und -mischung. In diesem Artikel konzentrieren wir uns auf eines der neuesten samischen Fernsehprogramme, eine mehrsprachige Sami- Fernseh-Komödie, und untersuchen, wie dieses neuartige Medienumfeld für indigene Sami-Sprachen die zwei wohl bekannten Genres der Musik-Video Parodie und des anthropologischen Dokumentarfilms auf…
Multimodal Literacy Practices in the Indigenous Sámi Classroom: Children Navigating in a Complex Multilingual Setting
This article explores multimodal literacy practices in a transforming multilingual context of an indigenous and endangered Sámi language classroom. Looking at literacy practices as embedded in a complex and shifting terrain of language ideologies, language norms, and individual experiences and attitudes, we examined how multilingual Sámi children navigate and appropriate meaning-making resources available for them while designing their own pictur…
Multilingualism and Media
Multilingualism is a crucial part of media. Today's media environment is inevitably multilingual.
Promoting Tourism in Linguistic Minority Spaces on the Web: A Study of Linguistic and Visual Resources on Tourist Websites for Dingle, Ireland and Inari, Finland
This article explores the web-based promotion of tourism in two linguistic minority spaces, namely Dingle in the Corca Dhuibne Gaeltacht (designated Irish-speaking region) in Ireland and Inari in Finnish Sámiland. Tourism websites not only mediate the contact between tourist and tourism producer, but may also become part of the touristic experience both before and after the visit. Various combinations of resources are used on websites in order to…
Frozen actions in the Arctic linguistic landscape: A nexus analysis of language processes in visual space
This article examines the linguistic landscape (LL) of seven villages above the Arctic Circle, in the region called North Calotte. The area forms a complex nexus of contested and changing multilingualism, particularly as regards to endangered indigenous Sámi languages and Kven and Meänkieli minority languages. Viewing LL as a discursively constructed space and consequently signs as ‘frozed actions’ by various actors, and by adopting a Nexus analy…
Micro-level language-planning and grass-root initiatives: A case study of Irish language comedy and Inari Sámi rap
The aim of this paper is to examine the increased potential for language change from the micro-level, given the new domains in which minority languages are present in the global era. Drawing on the theoretical notion of sociolinguistic scales this paper presents a comparative account of the changing positions of the Irish and Inari Sámi languages. Specifically, this paper is centred on a comparative study of two media personalities, namely an Iri…
Gifting, service, and performance: Three eras in minority‐language media policy and practice
Adapting Tom Ricento's (2006 ) three‐era framework in language policy to the case of the Sámi in Finland and Irish in the Republic of Ireland, we identify three key eras in the development of minority‐language media: the gifting era, the service era, and the performance era. Each era has its own particular logic and normativities in relation to the value and functions allocated to minority‐language media, the key actors involved in these media, a…
The local political economy of languages in a Sámi tourism destination: Authenticity and mobility in the labelling of souvenirs1
n In this article we examine how the labelling of tourist souvenirs affects and is affected by the local political economy of languages in a tourist destination, which is also a minority language space. We begin by arguing for the importance of our particular focus of study, souvenir labels, in the process of global and local tourism, and consequently as evidence of the interplay of languages, politics and economics. In keeping with our discursiv…
Regulating Multilingualism in the North Calotte: The Case of Kven, Meänkieli and Sámi Languages
This article examines the dynamics of language relations by investigating the historical, political and ideological processes at play in the minoritization and revitalization of Kven, Meänkieli and Sámi languages in the North Calotte region. We focus particularly on language political and legal instruments developed and used to alter and regulate language relations in this area, and aim at providing a state-of-the-art overview of this quickly cha…
Counting the losses: Numbers as the Language of Language Endangerment
This paper provides a set of critical reflections on the use(s) of numbers to communicate facts about the changing dynamics of speech communities undergoing language shift. Such numerical representations are widespread, and they are of important in segments of language expertise. After a literature survey of counting practices, the paper focuses on three language-ideological decisions underpinning language counting: First, decisions need to be ma…
Sámi language mobility: Scales and Discourses of Multilingualism in a Polycentric Environment
In a multilingual Lapland, globalization processes have various sociolinguistic effects. A good example is a change in the functions and values of the indigenous Sámi languages. The once solid community languages were pushed in the margins of the nation states in the early twentieth century. Today, Sámi linguistic and other semiotic resources are used not only for communication and building an indigenous community, but they function also as a com…
Media, multilingualism and language policing: An introduction
313) describes how, in the seventeenth century, the term ''police'' was used to describe the rational management of the state, ''the set of means by which the state's forces can be increased while preserving the state in good order''. This rational management would be effected through the collection and production of knowledge about the people, so as to strengthen the state. Such knowledge would be infinitely detailed, stretching into the smalles…
Convergence and divergence in Basque, Irish and Sámi media language policing
The local political economy of languages in a Sámi tourism destination: Authenticity and mobility in the labelling of souvenirs1
n In this article we examine how the labelling of tourist souvenirs affects and is affected by the local political economy of languages in a tourist destination, which is also a minority language space. We begin by arguing for the importance of our particular focus of study, souvenir labels, in the process of global and local tourism, and consequently as evidence of the interplay of languages, politics and economics. In keeping with our discursiv…
Counting the losses: Numbers as the Language of Language Endangerment
This paper provides a set of critical reflections on the use(s) of numbers to communicate facts about the changing dynamics of speech communities undergoing language shift. Such numerical representations are widespread, and they are of important in segments of language expertise. After a literature survey of counting practices, the paper focuses on three language-ideological decisions underpinning language counting: First, decisions need to be ma…
Voices in discourses: Dialogism, Critical Discourse Analysis and ethnic identity
In this article we attempt to combine the Bakhtinian, dialogical philosophy of language and critical discourse analysis (CDA) with our analysis of ethnic identity. The data we discuss are an interview with a Sami journalist who works in the Sami media. We analyse the interview from the points of view of dialogism and CDA to illustrate how identity must be understood as something which is both individual and social in nature. We reject the earlier…
Commodifying Sámi culture in an indigenous tourism site
Cultural tourism has become an alternative economic activity in many indigenous sites, and local tourist providers compete globally by commodifying their culture in an efficient, attractive manner. This process is not however a straightforward one, because of the need to manage both the multilingual context and the interaction between host and tourists, and this can lead to tensions for all parties. We examine a Reindeer Farm in the indigenous la…
Frozen actions in the Arctic linguistic landscape: A nexus analysis of language processes in visual space
This article examines the linguistic landscape (LL) of seven villages above the Arctic Circle, in the region called North Calotte. The area forms a complex nexus of contested and changing multilingualism, particularly as regards to endangered indigenous Sámi languages and Kven and Meänkieli minority languages. Viewing LL as a discursively constructed space and consequently signs as ‘frozed actions’ by various actors, and by adopting a Nexus analy…
Media, multilingualism and language policing: An introduction
313) describes how, in the seventeenth century, the term ''police'' was used to describe the rational management of the state, ''the set of means by which the state's forces can be increased while preserving the state in good order''. This rational management would be effected through the collection and production of knowledge about the people, so as to strengthen the state. Such knowledge would be infinitely detailed, stretching into the smalles…
Broadcasting Indigenous Voices: Sami Minority Media Production
Ethnic minority media embody much of the multiculturalist, multilingual and transnational changes in the media landscape and in the wider societal frame as well. Often minority media aim at providing relevant information, but also alternative publicity and empowering experiences in regard to their own identity, language and culture. Through an analysis of journalists' interviews and ethnographic data, this article examines how these tendencies, p…
Indigenous Identity in Print: Representations of the Sami in News Discourse
This article examines news representations of the indigenous Sami people in the Finnish news discourse and the role of the representations in the politics of Sami identity. Through critical discourse analysis of Finnish newspaper texts collected from the leading daily Helsingin Sanomat, I analyse the representations by examining how the journalists utilized textual and linguistic resources available to them, how journalistic practices limited and…
Interactive Uses of Journalism: Crossing Between Technological Potential and Young People’s News-Using Practices
The article examines the interactive uses of journalism, focusing on the changes brought by new communication technology in the everyday news media uses of young Finns. The study is based on a survey and in-depth interviews. The results indicate that even though young Finns have easy access to new communication technology, journalism is still predominantly used via television and printed newspapers. While nearly all subjects followed news regular…
Regulating Multilingualism in the North Calotte: The Case of Kven, Meänkieli and Sámi Languages
This article examines the dynamics of language relations by investigating the historical, political and ideological processes at play in the minoritization and revitalization of Kven, Meänkieli and Sámi languages in the North Calotte region. We focus particularly on language political and legal instruments developed and used to alter and regulate language relations in this area, and aim at providing a state-of-the-art overview of this quickly cha…
Shaping discourses of multilingualism through a language ideological debate: The case of Swedish in Finland
The ideological (re)construction of the position of Swedish in Finland is examined as it took shape during a major year-long debate about the role of Swedish in Finnish education. Data were collected through archival research of the leading national newspapers in the two official languages of Finland:Helsingin Sanomat(Finnish) andHufvudstadsbladet(Swedish). Circulating and intersecting discourses in newspaper texts are traced in order to examine …
Convergence and divergence in Basque, Irish and Sámi media language policing
Languaging in Ultima Thule: Multilingualism in the Life of a Sami Boy
In this paper we investigate multilingualism as a phenomenon which pervades different social and cultural levels but is manifested in the everyday life of multilingual individuals. As an illustration, we examine multilingualism from the perspective of a young Sami boy, Ante, and explore how different languages function as a complex – but at times problematic – set of resources for him. To capture the complexity and fluidity in the relationships b…
Gifting, service, and performance: Three eras in minority‐language media policy and practice
Adapting Tom Ricento's (2006 ) three‐era framework in language policy to the case of the Sámi in Finland and Irish in the Republic of Ireland, we identify three key eras in the development of minority‐language media: the gifting era, the service era, and the performance era. Each era has its own particular logic and normativities in relation to the value and functions allocated to minority‐language media, the key actors involved in these media, a…
Sámi language mobility: Scales and Discourses of Multilingualism in a Polycentric Environment
In a multilingual Lapland, globalization processes have various sociolinguistic effects. A good example is a change in the functions and values of the indigenous Sámi languages. The once solid community languages were pushed in the margins of the nation states in the early twentieth century. Today, Sámi linguistic and other semiotic resources are used not only for communication and building an indigenous community, but they function also as a com…
Sami in the Media: Questions of Language Vitality and Cultural Hybridisation
In this paper, I will discuss language vitality and cultural hybridisation as taking place in the indigenous, transnational and partly diasporic Sami community and their media. Drawing on ethnographic and interview data on Sami journalists, children and a rap musician, I focus on two central aspects emerging from the data: the implications involved with Sami-only language policy adopted in Sami media and the impact of globalisation, particularly …
Assemblage of art, discourse and ice hockey: Designing knowledge about work
This article examines speculative design's capacity to co-produce knowledge about contradictions and potentialities of work in professional ice hockey. Building on the Deleuzian concept of assemblage, speculative design has been used for two purposes: (a) to bring together the perspectives of art, anthropology, discourse studies, and professional sports in co-constructing knowledge about hockey work; and (b) to analyze and present the key finding…
Micro-level language-planning and grass-root initiatives: A case study of Irish language comedy and Inari Sámi rap
The aim of this paper is to examine the increased potential for language change from the micro-level, given the new domains in which minority languages are present in the global era. Drawing on the theoretical notion of sociolinguistic scales this paper presents a comparative account of the changing positions of the Irish and Inari Sámi languages. Specifically, this paper is centred on a comparative study of two media personalities, namely an Iri…
Multimodal Literacy Practices in the Indigenous Sámi Classroom: Children Navigating in a Complex Multilingual Setting
This article explores multimodal literacy practices in a transforming multilingual context of an indigenous and endangered Sámi language classroom. Looking at literacy practices as embedded in a complex and shifting terrain of language ideologies, language norms, and individual experiences and attitudes, we examined how multilingual Sámi children navigate and appropriate meaning-making resources available for them while designing their own pictur…
Powered by assemblage: Language for Multiplicity
Assemblage is one way to examine complexities in today's world. In Deleuzian thinking, assemblage refers to both the act of assembling diverse elements and the arrangements of these elements for a specific purpose. Importantly, it is the interaction between elements that allows the assemblage to become more than the sum of its parts. Applying this concept to long-term research on Cold Rush - the transformation of the Arctic commons into commoditi…
Investing in indigenous multilingualism in the Arctic
Body, Nature, Language: Artisans to Artists in the Commodification of Authenticity
This article examines processes of authenticating and selling handicrafts at the conjuncture of cultural pride and economic profit in two peripheral sites (Finnish Sámiland and rural Québec), under shared conditions of late capitalism and globalising political economies. These conditions (re)structure traditionalist and modernist discourses about artisans' historical bodies, their connections to the local land (nature), and how they interactional…
Assembling Success: Desire, Worker Mobility, and Value Creation in Finnish Ice Hockey
Building on Deleuze and Guattari's assemblage theories, this paper offers an ethnography of work focused on a professional ice hockey team in Finland, where hockey is the leading sport in terms of popularity and economic investment. It is an analysis of the everyday investments in developing individual players' skills and in building teams capable of high levels of cooperation under conditions of unpredictability. By looking at team formation as …
Body, Nature, Language: Artisans to Artists in the Commodification of Authenticity
This article examines processes of authenticating and selling handicrafts at the conjuncture of cultural pride and economic profit in two peripheral sites (Finnish Sámiland and rural Québec), under shared conditions of late capitalism and globalising political economies. These conditions (re)structure traditionalist and modernist discourses about artisans' historical bodies, their connections to the local land (nature), and how they interactional…
On the Fringe: News Representations of the Sami
(2001). On the Fringe: News Representations of the Sami. Social Identities: Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 637-657
Indigenous Identity in Print: Representations of the Sami in News Discourse
This article examines news representations of the indigenous Sami people in the Finnish news discourse and the role of the representations in the politics of Sami identity. Through critical discourse analysis of Finnish newspaper texts collected from the leading daily Helsingin Sanomat, I analyse the representations by examining how the journalists utilized textual and linguistic resources available to them, how journalistic practices limited and…
At the crossroads of ethnicity, place and identity: Representations of northern people and regions in Finnish news discourse
Interactive Uses of Journalism: Crossing Between Technological Potential and Young People’s News-Using Practices
The article examines the interactive uses of journalism, focusing on the changes brought by new communication technology in the everyday news media uses of young Finns. The study is based on a survey and in-depth interviews. The results indicate that even though young Finns have easy access to new communication technology, journalism is still predominantly used via television and printed newspapers. While nearly all subjects followed news regular…
Voices in discourses: Dialogism, Critical Discourse Analysis and ethnic identity
In this article we attempt to combine the Bakhtinian, dialogical philosophy of language and critical discourse analysis (CDA) with our analysis of ethnic identity. The data we discuss are an interview with a Sami journalist who works in the Sami media. We analyse the interview from the points of view of dialogism and CDA to illustrate how identity must be understood as something which is both individual and social in nature. We reject the earlier…
Sami in the Media: Questions of Language Vitality and Cultural Hybridisation
In this paper, I will discuss language vitality and cultural hybridisation as taking place in the indigenous, transnational and partly diasporic Sami community and their media. Drawing on ethnographic and interview data on Sami journalists, children and a rap musician, I focus on two central aspects emerging from the data: the implications involved with Sami-only language policy adopted in Sami media and the impact of globalisation, particularly …
Sami in the Media: Questions of Language Vitality and Cultural Hybridisation
Languaging in Ultima Thule: Multilingualism in the Life of a Sami Boy
In this paper we investigate multilingualism as a phenomenon which pervades different social and cultural levels but is manifested in the everyday life of multilingual individuals. As an illustration, we examine multilingualism from the perspective of a young Sami boy, Ante, and explore how different languages function as a complex – but at times problematic – set of resources for him. To capture the complexity and fluidity in the relationships b…
Broadcasting Indigenous Voices: Sami Minority Media Production
Ethnic minority media embody much of the multiculturalist, multilingual and transnational changes in the media landscape and in the wider societal frame as well. Often minority media aim at providing relevant information, but also alternative publicity and empowering experiences in regard to their own identity, language and culture. Through an analysis of journalists' interviews and ethnographic data, this article examines how these tendencies, p…
Media, multilingualism and language policing: An introduction
313) describes how, in the seventeenth century, the term ''police'' was used to describe the rational management of the state, ''the set of means by which the state's forces can be increased while preserving the state in good order''. This rational management would be effected through the collection and production of knowledge about the people, so as to strengthen the state. Such knowledge would be infinitely detailed, stretching into the smalles…
Convergence and divergence in Basque, Irish and Sámi media language policing
Regulating Multilingualism in the North Calotte: The Case of Kven, Meänkieli and Sámi Languages
This article examines the dynamics of language relations by investigating the historical, political and ideological processes at play in the minoritization and revitalization of Kven, Meänkieli and Sámi languages in the North Calotte region. We focus particularly on language political and legal instruments developed and used to alter and regulate language relations in this area, and aim at providing a state-of-the-art overview of this quickly cha…
Counting the losses: Numbers as the Language of Language Endangerment
This paper provides a set of critical reflections on the use(s) of numbers to communicate facts about the changing dynamics of speech communities undergoing language shift. Such numerical representations are widespread, and they are of important in segments of language expertise. After a literature survey of counting practices, the paper focuses on three language-ideological decisions underpinning language counting: First, decisions need to be ma…
Sámi language mobility: Scales and Discourses of Multilingualism in a Polycentric Environment
In a multilingual Lapland, globalization processes have various sociolinguistic effects. A good example is a change in the functions and values of the indigenous Sámi languages. The once solid community languages were pushed in the margins of the nation states in the early twentieth century. Today, Sámi linguistic and other semiotic resources are used not only for communication and building an indigenous community, but they function also as a com…
Promoting Tourism in Linguistic Minority Spaces on the Web: A Study of Linguistic and Visual Resources on Tourist Websites for Dingle, Ireland and Inari, Finland
This article explores the web-based promotion of tourism in two linguistic minority spaces, namely Dingle in the Corca Dhuibne Gaeltacht (designated Irish-speaking region) in Ireland and Inari in Finnish Sámiland. Tourism websites not only mediate the contact between tourist and tourism producer, but may also become part of the touristic experience both before and after the visit. Various combinations of resources are used on websites in order to…
Frozen actions in the Arctic linguistic landscape: A nexus analysis of language processes in visual space
This article examines the linguistic landscape (LL) of seven villages above the Arctic Circle, in the region called North Calotte. The area forms a complex nexus of contested and changing multilingualism, particularly as regards to endangered indigenous Sámi languages and Kven and Meänkieli minority languages. Viewing LL as a discursively constructed space and consequently signs as ‘frozed actions’ by various actors, and by adopting a Nexus analy…
Micro-level language-planning and grass-root initiatives: A case study of Irish language comedy and Inari Sámi rap
The aim of this paper is to examine the increased potential for language change from the micro-level, given the new domains in which minority languages are present in the global era. Drawing on the theoretical notion of sociolinguistic scales this paper presents a comparative account of the changing positions of the Irish and Inari Sámi languages. Specifically, this paper is centred on a comparative study of two media personalities, namely an Iri…
Gifting, service, and performance: Three eras in minority‐language media policy and practice
Adapting Tom Ricento's (2006 ) three‐era framework in language policy to the case of the Sámi in Finland and Irish in the Republic of Ireland, we identify three key eras in the development of minority‐language media: the gifting era, the service era, and the performance era. Each era has its own particular logic and normativities in relation to the value and functions allocated to minority‐language media, the key actors involved in these media, a…
The local political economy of languages in a Sámi tourism destination: Authenticity and mobility in the labelling of souvenirs1
n In this article we examine how the labelling of tourist souvenirs affects and is affected by the local political economy of languages in a tourist destination, which is also a minority language space. We begin by arguing for the importance of our particular focus of study, souvenir labels, in the process of global and local tourism, and consequently as evidence of the interplay of languages, politics and economics. In keeping with our discursiv…
Multilingualism and Media
Multilingualism is a crucial part of media. Today's media environment is inevitably multilingual.
Cutting across media spaces and boundaries: The case of a hybrid, indigenous Sámi TV comedy / Quer durch alle Medienräume und -grenzen: Der Fall einer hybriden, indigenen Sami-Fernseh-Komödie / Au-del…
Die Dynamik vieler zeitgenössischer Medien schafft neue, potenziell aber auch strittige Möglichkeiten der Sprach Verwendung und -mischung. In diesem Artikel konzentrieren wir uns auf eines der neuesten samischen Fernsehprogramme, eine mehrsprachige Sami- Fernseh-Komödie, und untersuchen, wie dieses neuartige Medienumfeld für indigene Sami-Sprachen die zwei wohl bekannten Genres der Musik-Video Parodie und des anthropologischen Dokumentarfilms auf…
Multimodal Literacy Practices in the Indigenous Sámi Classroom: Children Navigating in a Complex Multilingual Setting
This article explores multimodal literacy practices in a transforming multilingual context of an indigenous and endangered Sámi language classroom. Looking at literacy practices as embedded in a complex and shifting terrain of language ideologies, language norms, and individual experiences and attitudes, we examined how multilingual Sámi children navigate and appropriate meaning-making resources available for them while designing their own pictur…
Spatial interaction in Sámiland: Regulative and transitory chronotopes in the dynamic multilingual landscape of an indigenous Sámi village
Using the example of the linguistic landscape of an indigenous Sámi village in northern Scandinavia, this article explores multilingualism in public signs located in public spaces of the village. Based on long-standing ethnographic and discourse analytical research on multilingualism in the spaces and practices in the peripheral locality of Sámiland, I will focus on the temporal and spatial dimensions of the signs. In this, Bakhtin’s concept of t…
Putting resources into practice: A nexus analysis of knowledge mobilisation activities in language research and multilingual communities
Recent demand within the academy for language research that bridges different stakeholders renders the social relevance of research a factor in the academic competition for research funds [Curry, M. J., & Lillis, T. (2013). Introduction to the thematic issue: Participating in academic publishing – consequences of linguistic policies and practices. Language Policy, 12, 209–213]. This calls for new means and innovations for designing and carrying o…
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