Heini Lehtonen
List of John Benjamins publications for which Heini Lehtonen plays a role.
Articles
Troping on prejudice: Stylised “bad Finnish” performances and reflexivity among adolescents in Eastern Helsinki Reflexivity in Late Modernity: Accounts from linguistic ethnographies of youth, Pérez-Milans, Miguel (ed.), pp. 15–47 | Article
2016 This paper studies reflexivity in interaction among adolescents in Helsinki in the light of stylised performances that are labelled by participants as “bad Finnish”. Stylised “bad Finnish” can be seen as an enregistered discourse register. It is an emblem in which certain linguistic features are… read more
Developing multiethnic youth language in Helsinki Ethnic Styles of Speaking in European Metropolitan Areas, Kern, Friederike and Margret Selting (eds.), pp. 291–318 | Article
2011 This paper discusses the phenomena of youth language in multiethnic suburbs in Eastern Helsinki. The paper describes how adolescents make use of multiethnic social reality and the linguistic resources of their surroundings, i.e. different languages as well as varieties of Finnish. The possibility… read more