”Terhveisiä ja toivemysiikkiä meänkielelä, ruottiksi ja suomeksi”. Monikielisiä käytänteitä vähemmistökielisessä Meänraatiossa

Abstract

"Multilingual practices in the minority language radio Meänraatio". The aim of the study is to explore how multilingualism and multilingual language practices are perceived by radio journalists working in Meänraatio, the Meänkieli-language channel of the Swedish Radio Norrbotten. (Meänkieli, earlier also known as Tornedalian Finnish, is an autochthonous language of Northern Sweden and now officially acknowledged as a national minority language.) Multilingualism and multilingual practices are examined in particular from the perspective of Meänkieli in the multilingual radio programme Finnmix, but also in the Meänraatio channel, Tornedalen and the Swedish society in general. In addition, the study explores the multilingual practices of hosts and listeners in the Finnmix broadcasts. The study is based on both ethnographic and interactional data. The former consists of a group interview with radio journalists working for Meänraatio, and of the author’s observations and logbook notes of Finnmix radio broadcasts, while the interactional data consist of recordings and transcriptions of Finnmix radio broadcasts. The theoretical framework of the study is sociolinguistic research on multilingualism, based in particular on translanguaging theory, which focuses on multilingual practices.

Keywords

• tornedalen
• translanguaging
• translanguaging space
• language repertoire
• linguistic resources
• media