Publications

Publication details [#58543]

Laitinen, Mikko. 2014. 630 kilometres by bicycle: observations of English in urban and rural Finland. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 228 : 55–77.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language contact | language use | meaning | place deixis | sign

Language as a subject

English | Finnish

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IJSL/html

Annotation

This study debates picked observations (made during a 2009 six-day bicycle trip) of English in both urban and rural Finnish signage as a complex phenomenon, elucidating how mapping signs in space offer valuable information on language contact situations.