Philosophical Faculty, School of Humanities

Today, besides various physical linguistic landscapes, also virtual ones are being actively developed in cyber spaces such as the Internet and digital environments. Virtual linguistic landscapes have recently become a significant indicator of a level of language vitality. Indeed, minority and endangered languages are experiencing multiple opportunities to be revived and promoted.
Because of modern digitalization, the Karelian language has also become part of the Internet. Having access to the Karelian language in the cyber space enables the use this language, even when it might be difficult to find in real life. This study is focused on exploring which varieties of Karelian are used today as an optional language of communication at different websites. In addition, the study aims at investigating the contexts in which these particular websites are being developed and the initiators of this development process. The research data consists of 16 websites offering the Karelian language as a language of the virtual interface. The research material has been analyzed based on both physical and virtual linguistic landscape theories. The former type was introduced by Landry and Bourhis in 1997, and later Ivkovic and Lotherington (2009) adapted it to develop their own virtual linguistic landscape theory. Furthermore, Reh’s (2004) four multilingual writing strategies, particularly duplicating, fragmentary, overlapping and complementary, have been used to analyze the interfaces and contents of the selected websites.
This study reveals that the most commonly used Karelian dialect in virtual linguistic landscapes is Livvi-Karelian; 10 out of the 16 sites use this particular variety as the language of the interface. Of the remaining websites, three use only the Karelian Proper dialect and three others offer a language choice in one of the two above-mentioned dialects. The results may primarily be explained by there being no common standard Karelian language; moreover, the Karelian language does not have an official status in any country.
Analyzing the visibility of the Karelian language in the cyber space reveals that most websites have been developed by cultural societies, linguistic researchers, newspaper editorial teams or individuals interested in the Karelian language. Thus, this study presents an overall picture of visibility of Karelian in the Internet and suggests a few possible ways of promoting this endangered language not only in the virtual environment, but also in real life. In fact, even a minor initiative contributes to the revitalization of the Karelian language.

This introduction article discusses language vitality and language diversity in connection with linguistic well-being, which were the main ideas reflected behind the theme of the AFinLA Autumn Symposium 2018, “Keeping languages alive”. Linguistic well-being is a new concept that addresses the issues related to language policy and linguistic practices within a speech community and how these impact the individual members of that community. Among the main factors behind linguistic well-being we find linguistic human rights, which emphasize, for example, the right for anyone to identify with one or more languages without being discriminated and the right for basic education in one’s own language. These rights are particularly linked to how endangered and minority languages are treated in the society and they can be actively promoted by language policy and education. However, linguistic well- being is not just a matter of minorities but it affects the whole community. The more diverse th...

Artikkelit Yhteiskuntatieteiden ja kauppatieteiden tiedekunta 2018 NUT-partisiipin variaatiosta rajakarjalaismurteissa: (n)nA-, n-ja nUn-partisiippien keskinäisestä suhteesta [Three variants of the active past participle in Border Karelian dialects] Moshnikov, Ilia

Suomen soveltavan kielitieteen yhdistyksen vuoden 2018 syyssymposium järjestettiin Itä-Suomen yliopistossa Joensuussa. Symposiumin teema, Pidetään kielet elävinä, kytkeytyi läheisesti Itä-Suomen yliopistossa tehtyyn vähemmistökielten tutkimus-ja elvyttämistoimintaan, ja sen avulla haluttiin kannustaa osallistujia pohtimaan kielten elinvoimaisuutta sekä pienten kielten tukemista eri näkökulmista. Tarkoituksena oli avata uusia näkökulmia Suomen monikielisyyden tarkasteluun ja nostaa samalla esiin erikielisten suomalaisten kielelliseen hyvinvointiin liittyviä kysymyksiä. Symposiumin pääpuhujia olivat Irma Mullonen Venäjän tiedeakatemiasta, Tove Bull Tromssan yliopistosta ja Päivi Kuusi Helsingin yliopistosta. Plenaariesitelmien lisäksi symposiumissa pidettiin 25 sektioesitelmää ja kolme posteriesitelmää sekä järjestettiin seitsemän erillistä työpajaa, joissa oli yhteensä 52 esitelmää. Symposiumiin kytkeytyi myös edeltävänä iltapäivänä pidetty Langnetin Monikielisyys ja kielikontaktit-teemaryhmän tekstiseminaari, jonka teemana oli käyttöpohjainen näkökulma monikielisyyden ja kielikontaktien tutkimuksessa. Kaiken kaikkiaan syyssymposiumissa oli mukana 110 osallistujaa. Tähän vuosikirjaan on valittu seitsemän symposium-esitelmien pohjalta kirjoitettua, vertaisarvioitua artikkelia sekä yksi puheenvuoro. Plenaristeista mukana ovat Tove Bull ja Päivi Kuusi. Tove Bull tarjoaa katsauksen Norjan ainutlaatuiseen kielimaisemaan, jossa näkyvät rinnakkain kaksi virallista kirjakieltä ja näiden ohella vahvassa asemassa olevat paikallismurteet. Päivi Kuusi taas pohtii puheenvuorossaan sitä, millainen on kääntäjäkoulutuksen rooli vähemmistökielen elvyttämisessä. Näiden kahden tekstin väliin vuosikirjassa mahtuu kuusi artikkelia, joissa kielellistä monimuotoisuutta ja kielellistä hyvinvointia tarkastellaan monipuolisista lähtökohdista. Niiden sisältöä avataan johdantoartikkelissa, jossa vuosikirjan toimittajat hahmottelevat kielellisen hyvinvoinnin käsitettä tarkemmin. Syyssymposiumin järjestelyistä päävastuun kantoi Itä-Suomen yliopiston humanistinen osasto. Järjestelytoimikunnan puheenjohtajana toimi Maria Kok ja sen muut jäsenet olivat

This article looks to analyze the use of the Karelian language on the internet and especially on social media platforms. The study is based on a survey carried out among Karelian speakers at the end of 2021. The survey was implemented in the Karelian language and received 161 responses, mostly from Finland, but also from Russia and other countries. The survey consists of questions related to the use of Karelian in daily life and online. The benefits, challenges, and needs related to the use of Karelian online are also explored. The results show that 40% of the respondents use the Karelian language online on a daily basis. Karelian is visible on all of the popular social media platforms, with the most popular being Facebook and Instagram, although the use of TikTok is still rare. However, it is considered that popular social media platforms would benefit from more content in Karelian, in order to support the visibility and revitalization of the Karelian language. Kokkuvõte. Ilia Mosh...

The use of the Karelian language on the internet has grown strongly over recent decades. The aim of this article is to analyze the visibility of the Karelian language on the internet, focusing on websites using Karelian as the language of the interface. The research data is analyzed comparatively from the perspective of positioning the Karelian language among other language versions. The study shows that the number of websites in Karelian has decreased since 2016. The use of different dialects of Karelian on websites varies. However, the visibility of the language in official contexts is rare, which could be explained by the lack of official status and the dearth of financial and human resources. This study describes existing resources in Karelian, but also shows the challenges of using Karelian and suggests developing strategies for making the Karelian language more accessible and visible on the internet.  

The use of the Karelian language on the internet has grown strongly over recent decades. The aim of this article is to analyze the visibility of the Karelian language on the internet, focusing on websites with a full interface in Karelian. The research data are analyzed comparatively from the perspective of the use of Karelian dialects on different websites. The study shows that the number of websites in Karelian is decreasing. The use of different dialects of Karelian on websites varies. The visibility of the language in official contexts is rare, which could be explained by the lack of official status and the dearth of financial and human resources. This study describes existing websites in Karelian, but also shows the challenges of using Karelian on the internet from a language ideology point of view and in terms of linguistic landscape theory.

Artikkelit Yhteiskuntatieteiden ja kauppatieteiden tiedekunta 2018 NUT-partisiipin variaatiosta rajakarjalaismurteissa: (n)nA-, n-ja nUn-partisiippien keskinäisestä suhteesta [Three variants of the active past participle in Border Karelian dialects] Moshnikov, Ilia

Runouden muuttuvat ympäristöt.
Jenni Haukion "Suojele, älä tuhoa", kriittinen eläintutkimus ja turkistarhausdiskurssin politiikka

2020-luvulta alkaen runous on saanut muuttuneissa mediatodellisuuden ympäristöissä uusia muotoja sekä käyttö-ja vastaanottotapoja. Artikkelin tapaustutkimuksena on Jenni Haukion runo "Suojele, älä tuhoa", joka on herättänyt keskustelua turkistarhauksen etiikasta ja politiikasta. Runoa lähestytään artikkelissa sekä lyyrisenä ja retorisena puheena että yhteiskunnallisesti kantaaottavana tekstinä eläinten oikeuksien puolesta.

Literary tourism is a sub-sector of cultural tourism and relates to travelling to places connected to fictional texts and the authors of those texts. Although it is an old form of tourism and lies at the foundation of classic European Grand Tour, it has not received much academic attention until recently and a number of qualitative studies on literary tourist experiences is still limited.

The general aim of this study is to address the lack of knowledge on literary tourist experiences by analysing the role of authenticity in literary tourist experience through the analysis of literary tourists‟ accounts of their literary trips. The scientific objective is to explore the connection between the imagination and authenticity at literary tourism sites. An ongoing discourse on authenticity in tourism saw the emergence of different views and resulted in proposition of three types of authenticity, namely objective, constructive and existential authenticity; the first two types are viewed as object-related, while existential authenticity is subject (or tourist)-related and is based on personal experience.

The research tasks are, firstly, to explore how respondents prescribe meanings to their literary tourist experiences; secondly, to discover how authenticity appears in narratives of literary tourist experiences; and, thirdly, to find out how respondents construct their narratives of literary tourist experiences. Collected data includes seven narratives, written by respondents on their literary tourist experiences; it also includes a travel journal, jointly produced by members of after-school study group from Ironville about their literary trips, and group supervisor‟s notes on the effects of literary tourism on students. Apart from content analysis, structural analysis of narrative was conducted using Greimas‟s actantial model.

The research results support the assumption that both object-related (objective and constructive) and subject-related (existential) authenticity are important in literary tourist experience, and that object-related authenticity can facilitate subject-related authenticity. The study confirms that authenticity is perceived and consumed differently by individual literary tourists based on their motivations, expectations and dedication to writers and literary works. Analysis of narratives using Greimas‟s actantial model demonstrates that respondents‟ narratives follow similar structure and are centred on literary tourists‟ quest for authenticity.

The results of the study can be utilized in management of literary destinations. Future research on literary tourist experiences could concentrate for instance on the specifics of tourists' age and gender, literary touristic "communitas" and literary tourism as family activity.

The article discusses the concept of authenticity in relation to literary travel and other forms of media-induced travel. Focusing on the power of fictional narrative to draw members of the audience to locations associated with a story, the paper aims to find out what exactly visitors are expecting to find when journeying to locations with literary and media associations. An overview of previous research demonstrates how the concept of authenticity has been understood in connection with travel inspired by literature, films and TV productions. An analysis of recent research, focusing on literary and screen-induced travel, demonstrates that perceptions of what is authentic varies between individual visitors based on their level of dedication to fictional narratives and the meanings they attribute to them. There is a number of ways in which visitors seek for and encounter different types of authenticity at sites with media connections.

The proposed presentation focuses on Anglophone fandom dedicated to a Japanese transmedia franchise Weiß Kreuz. Over a span of ten years (1997-2007), manga series, anime series, OVA, a light novel and audio dramas were produced within the franchise, telling a story of four assassins working in a flower shop as a cover-up. Notable peculiarities of the series include a plentitude of internal inconsistencies and major continuity errors, including unaccounted gaps in the timeline and "plot holes so big you could drive a truck through". These flaws, however, do not seem to prevent the determined fans from appropriating the story and remaking it through fanfiction, often along the lines of BL (Boys' Love, or yaoi, featuring romantic/sexual relationship between male characters). On the contrary, the shortcomings of the canon in this case provide a sort of invitation for fan creativity. While dedicated fans enjoy engaging with the canon, they, nevertheless, are not blind to its flaws. They are willing to acknowledge and laugh at its inconsistencies and other failings, in both discussions and fanfiction, proving once again that fan appropriating and transforming of media productions is chiefly done for the fun of it.

The presentation is based on autoethnographic fieldwork conducted during the so-called Tove Jansson walk in Helsinki, which involved following a self-navigated walking route around the city, using itineraries published on the web pages of the Helsinki Art Museum and Moomin Characters Ltd as prompts.
Tove Jansson (1914–2001), a Finnish-Swedish artist and writer, internationally known for her books about the Moomins, lived in Helsinki for most of her life. Locations visited in the course of the walk included places with biographic connections to Jansson in the inner-city area.
I examine how urban space can be experienced through biographical connection to the writer/artist during a thematic walk, using personal mobile devices for navigation and fact-checking, also relying on own knowledge of Jansson’s biography and works. I observe how the biographical narrative adds a new dimension to urban space and how this spatial augmentation (Sandvik & Waade 2008) enables the visitor to “dive” into the writer’s time. The narrative of Jansson’s life and my own experience of the city, which I previously visited and where I currently reside, intertwine into a narrative laid out across the space, being nonlinear and easily interruptible by the city itself.
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