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Peer reviewedYlanne-McEwen, Virpi – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1993
This study investigated complimenting behavior in three language varieties, British English, Finnish, and the interlanguage of Finish Learners of English. It found that compliments in Finnish tended to be longer and more syntactic than in English and that Finnish learners of English demonstrated appropriate complimenting behavior in English,…
Descriptors: Adults, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, English
Peer reviewedStromman, Solveig – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1987
The alternating and mixed use of Swedish and Finnish and special trade slang in three relatively small firms (employing a total of 678 employees, 40 percent of whom were Swedish-speaking, 56 percent Finnish-speaking, and 4 percent bilingual) in the bilingual city of Vasa, Finland was analyzed. (CB)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Business Communication, Code Switching (Language), Discourse Analysis
Elo, Anja – 1985
A study of the interlanguage of bilinguals and multilinguals compared the oral French proficiency of 20 native Swedish-speaking and 20 Finnish-speaking university students as evidenced in error patterns in oral tests. With the exception of phonological and phonetic errors in pronunciation, errors were classified by word class (article, noun,…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns
Download full textLuukka, Minna-Riitta, Ed.; Salla, Sigrid, Ed.; Dufva, Hannele, Ed. – 1998
The papers included in this yearbook of the Finnish Society of Applied Linguistics (AFinLA) were presented at the 1998 AFinLA conference "Linguistics and Finland: Crossing the Gulf." Papers are in Finnish, Estonian, or English, but all have accompanying English abstracts. The topics discussed in the papers include the following: speed…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Electronic Mail, English for Academic Purposes, English (Second Language)
Bouton, Lawrence F., Ed.; Kachru, Yamuna, Ed. – 1993
The selection of papers from the 6th Annual International Conference on Pragmatics and Language Learning (Urbana, Illinois, April 1992) include: "Discourse Markers Across Language" (Bruce Fraser); "Conjunction and Causality: Pragmatics and the Lexicon" (Yael Ziv); "Situated Discourse: The Sociocultural Context of…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Cultural Context
