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Swearing in the Nordics: Contemporary trends, English and media
Swearing in the Nordics: Contemporary trends, English and media
Join us at the Nordic library for an evening about swearing and the influence of English and social media on our language use in the Nordic countries.
Ulrikke Rindal, Associate Professor from the University of Oslo, Norway, opens the event with a keynote on the mechanisms of how English-language media influences language and how media genres might limit register and allow performative monologues but yet not guarantee communication skills.
After this, researchers Helga Hilmisdottir (PhD, University of Iceland), Kristy Beers Fägersten (Professor, Södertörn University, Sweden), and Elizabeth Peterson (Docent, University of Helsinki) engage in a panel discussion about the use of swear words – and the research of them – in the Nordic context. Jenny Sylvin from the University of Helsinki will moderate the discussion.
You also have a chance to get a drawing of your favourite swear word uttered by the comic character “Kiroileva siili”, drawn live by cartoonist Milla Paloniemi during the event.
Please observe that this event will be streamed; as a member of the public you may show on some footage and your questions to the panelists will be recorded. Comments from the event may also be used in the presenters’ research on swearing.
The discussion is part of SwiSca9: Raising Hel! -conference at the University of Helsinki by the research network Swearing in Scandinavia, a group of scholars united by the goals of conducting multidisciplinary research on the subject of swearing. Full program of the conference can be found here: https://blogs.helsinki.fi/swisca9hel/program/
Schedule
16.30: Doors open. Possibility to leave your favourite swearword to Milla Paloniemi for drawing
16:45: Welcoming words
17:00-17:15: Keynote: Ulrikke Rindal: From media to mouth: How English-language media influences language use
This talk is about the mechanisms of how English-language media influences language use among young people in Norway and the other Nordic countries. However, it is just as much about how people make language choices. What makes us choose an accent? Is it wrong to use English loan words? Why do adolescents swear, and why is it easier to swear in English than in our mother tongue? Is English-language media really making young people better in English? And what does language have to do with identity, anyway?
A break. Possibility to leave your favourite swearword to Milla Paloniemi for drawing
17:30-18:30: Panel discussion
18:30-18.45: Questions to panelists
19:00: Doors close
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Additional Details
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Datum och klockslag
22.01.2025 kl. 19:00
Läge
Evenemangets egenskaper
Dela
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