After all, the Finnish language is not decaying, says the researcher
Language|There has been many concern about the knowledge of young Finnish language in the Finnish language. The professor of Finnish still sees a bright future in Finnish.
Finnish Language lives and is doing well, and its degeneration is not worried, at least not professor at the University of Tampere Johanna Vaattovaara.
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« Dialects and different forms of language are used very creatively. The language is developed, used for any kind of activity and creates it, » Vaattovaara lists.
Vaattovaara explores Finnish and has been involved in making nationwide Language awareness. The study focuses especially on young people.
A recent study shows that young people use the different features of the language, for example, as a means of self -expression when they want to emphasize a particular tone.
Finnish The allegedly alleged decay of the language has been a recurring news coverage in the media.
Last year, HS reported about kindergarten children whose strongest language is the English-language hockey and phrases learned from YouTube or elsewhere. In the story A specialist in pediatric neurology suspected screen time as a cause for the poor language skills of the children.
According to Vaattovaara, young people naturally use English and other languages in Finnish. They are influenced by international popular culture. However, linguists are not particularly concerned about the phenomenon, says Vaattovaara.
« It is often thought that young people are completely indifferent here. Then, when they move into work and life changes, especially the phenomenon of tongue mixing, especially for young people, fades. »
According to Vaattovaara, it is most natural for interaction that we borrow expressions from different languages.
« In fact, we also borrow other dialects, » Vaattovaara adds.
According to him, borrowing dialects tells us that we are aware of the social value of dialects. This may be done if you want to underline your own message, for example.
Tongue For hundreds of years, Vaattovaara says has been concerned about wit and impoverishment, says Vaattovaara.
« The worry is old, but of course, in this social media time, there is a lot of language use that used to be more private in the old days. »
Today, the language is used more richer, says Vaattovaara. It also appears more than ever before.
Professor Johanna Vaattovaara
